Jos Huxley

Jos Huxley, senior vice president of technical affairs, is a toy industry veteran with experience addressing product safety, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and product testing issues.

Jos joins The Toy Association after more than 28 years at Hasbro, Inc., acting most recently as Hasbro’s principal QA engineer and regulatory specialist. He has been fully engaged in the work of U.S. federal and state requirements including participating on the ASTM F15.22 subcommittee on toy safety, as a member of the U.S. delegation to the ISO TC 181 toy technical committee and its many working groups, and working as an ISO observer to the CEN toy technical committee. He has also served in leadership roles as head of the U.S. delegation to TC 181, convenor of TC 181/WG 7 on age grading, and convenor-elect of TC 181/WG 1 safety of toys – mechanical & physical properties.

Upon graduating with honors from Brunel University in the UK in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, Jos began his career at Hasbro as a reliability engineer in the UK office, moving over to the corporate headquarters based in Rhode Island in 1998, and eventually assuming the role of principal QA engineer.