With a MA from Royal college of Art and MSc from Imperial College of London in Innovation Design Engineering, Kourosh has spent the last 9 years training himself as a heavy domain expert in commercial industrial design and product management for exclusive brands across the world such as Nokia, McLaren, Yamaha, Pernod Ricard and Xylem.
His recent achievements include chairing as both CEO for an entertainment company working on hardware and software in VR and AR and as CTO for a Clean tech start up producing nanobubbles for water aerations. Both companies have thrived from nothing to fully funding status with a post money valuation of £2.5M and £4M where he now chairs the companies and is seeking a full-time commitment in a new venture.
Work history
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Chief Executive OfficerValkyrie Industries Ltd
London, United KingdomFull Time
Co-found a Robotics company building a ‘Universal Haptic Interface’ for human-computer interfaces.
From Zero to a £3.2M valuation in 15 months forecasting 5 year roadmaps (Innovate UK & EC backed).
Oversee all aspects of project management and development devising market strategy and KPIs for each milestone. Current milestone is working towards Development Kits for our interested customers (LOI) such as McLaren Applied Technologies, Eon Realities, Jet Propolsion Labs and Huawei.
Company face at Pitching events and public demonstrations influencing market adoption of haptics.
Creative design lead in prototype and content creation in VR/AR.
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Innovation ConsultantKour Design
London, United KingdomFreelance
Free community services helping startups to build pitch documents, graphical collateral, business plans and strategies, pitch coaching and helping with funding.
Mentored post graduate students in entrepreneurial pursuit and projects.
Current communities include: Imperial College, Royal College of Art, Deep Science Ventures, Barclays Eagle Labs and Rise London.
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Skills
- Product Marketing
- Band Management
- Entertainment Industry
- Industrial Design
- Business Strategy
- Business Innovation
- Innovation Strategy
- Content Creation
- Business Networking
- Business Pitching
Education
Master of ScienceImperial College London
- London, United Kingdom
Master of ArtsRoyal College of Art
- London, United Kingdom
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Awards
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Winner of this years best film: Seal - Ethnography in Product Design (Conference Oct 2017)EPIC
Project: Valkyrie Industries; UHI (Universal Haptic Interface)Innovate UK
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