Peter Durand

Current

Assistant Director, Center for Better Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
House Artist at Pop!Tech
President and Creative Director at Alphachimp Studio, Inc.

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Peter Durand’s Summary

Designer and facilitator uses visual learning in collaborative strategy and design situations to accelerate change.

Peter Durand’s Experience

Assistant Director, Center for Better Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

(Design industry)

2007 — Present (3 years )

I work directly with internal and external clients to design large-scale innovation projects in the field of healthcare IT.
House Artist

Pop!Tech

(Design industry)

2004 — Present (6 years )

During this annual conference in Maine, Alphachimp creates on-site paintings live during each presentation. PopTech is a unique innovation network – a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world’s most significant challenges. We are known for our thriving community of thought-leaders, breakthrough innovation programs, visionary annual conferences and deep media and storytelling capabilities.
President and Creative Director

Alphachimp Studio, Inc.

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

November 1998 — Present (11 years 5 months)

As an illustrator, painter, traveler and graphic facilitator, Peter has been an innovator all his life, with a varied career combining visual learning, systems thinking, storytelling, collaborative solution design and information graphics. He has used his talents to serve such clients as Bayer Chemicals, Cap Gemini, GE, GM, Ernst & Young, the American Heart Association, Fidelity, Starbucks, Sanofi-Synthelabo and Microsoft.

Peter has a passionate interest in the emerging area of social enterprise and hopes to bring his industry experience to bear in addressing social and environmental issues. He works to inspire new ways of collaborating across interest groups and populations, and has brought his unique facilitation skills to economic and development initiatives in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Houston.