Gavin Platt

Gavin Platt is an experienced design and product leader currently serving as the Head of User Experience & Design at Acuity Brands since February 2018. In this role, Gavin leads the design and platform product teams for Atrius, a platform-as-a-service application suite within Acuity’s Intelligent Spaces Group, which specializes in smart building technologies and generated $216M in net sales for FY22. Prior to Acuity, Gavin held multiple executive positions at Lucid from May 2006 to February 2018, including VP of Product and VP of Design Engineering, as well as co-founding the company and leading visual and motion design efforts. Earlier, Gavin was a Creative Director and Co-Founder at Oberlin College, where innovative user interfaces for environmental feedback were developed for a prominent green building, after which Gavin contributed to public outreach and laboratory analyses as an operator of The Living Machine. Gavin Platt earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and attended Linsly School.