Designed Sustainability is an organization that creates products and services that are better. And while “better” may seem a tad broad, it simply conveys what we mean. Better for the environment, better for society, better for the consumer, and even better for businesses.
Sustainability is the key here. Products that actually make a difference through either providing a needed (and we don’t mean ad agency “needed” – look it up) solution, or fixing an existing solution to make it more efficient, cheaper, or less wasteful.
The only thing holding companies back today is their perception of what profitability means. We believe that companies large and small hold the key to solving the world’s biggest problems: Sustainable energy, sustainable farming, education, clean drinking water, and so many more.
Management
Ching Ching Huang, Chief Managing Director
B.A. in Art and Industrial Design. Started and grew Out-To Fashion Accessories Enterprises in Taiwan to a multi-million dollars export firm before the age of 21. Honored as one of top ten outstanding young entrepreneurs by Taiwan Government.
Subsequently started and obtained high ROI while served as CEO for companies like Ho-Shin Enterprises (exporting gaming setups and accessories to America and Europe), Allied Instruments (exclusive manufacturer’s representative of several U.S. Fortune 100 companies for Asian markets), and TCI (designed and packaged advanced imaging and display technologies, such as LEDs, CCDs and LCDs, for turn-key project sales).
Successfully raised substantial investment capital to fund her high tech start-up I-SEE-YOU (pioneering videophone technology).
Francis Hwang, Managing Director
Background geared towards engineering and more recently in business strategy/development. Francis Started his career at ESPN and Walt Disney as a Sr. Analyst in Customer Experience where he was in
charge of analyzing and packaging products across multiple entities of the Walt Disney Companies to streamline their offerings and reduce churn in subscriber-based businesses, as well as mitigating inefficiencies with internal resources.
Francis later moved on to become Executive Director of marketing and strategy for YouCast Corp.
(youcastcorp.com) where he helped craft the service offering for the agency dealing with consumer-facing web 2.0 products and music artists for brands looking for in depth measurable analytics in the social media landscape. Francis launched his first company which has been purchased privately, called Bucket. His patent applied invention creates economies of scale through a ground breaking concept in coin currency capture and recirculation at the point of sale, using existing credit card technology to eliminate the massive inefficiencies retailers, banks and consumers alike experience when handling coin currency.
Dr. Franklin D. Hwang, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Hwang has an extensive background in Chemistry, Chemical Physics and Physics, starting at University of Tennessee where he researched chemical reactions via cross molecular beam techniques under Dr. Sheldon Datz in Oakridge National Lab (Sheldon is considered the father of molecular beam research). He was a lead scientist and project manager at Dupont working with mass spectrometer systems before moving to be the director of sales and marketing at Apollo Laser. He later went on to become general manager of the Jerrall-Ash division of Fisher Scientific, which handled the development of analytical equipment for elemental analysis. Dr. Hwang left Jerrall-Ash in 1983 to start TCI Corporation, which acted as a manufacture's rep for companies like Jerrall-Ash, Fischer Scientific, Instrument Lab, Apollo Laser, Spex Industries, etc. Later TCI began packaging products and technology developed by U.S. and Japanese companies for sale to Chinese state companies. This evolved into selling entire manufacturing solutions including the technology and factories. TCI then began its own product and technology development in CCD cameras and Liquid Crystal Display technology. After raising venture capital funding ($15M), TCI launched I-SeeYou Corp and began manufacturing videophones in 1999. He has a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Purdue University and Ph.D in Chemical Physics
from University of Tennessee Knoxville/Oakridge National Laboratory.
