Frank Nuovo

As founder and Creative Director of Design Studio Nuovo, Frank Nuovo Sc.D. brings an exciting 25 years of product and brand design experience into sharp focus. Nuovo began his career as Design Director for BMW/Designworks/USA. Honing his design, strategy, branding and communication skills there led to Nokia’s invitation to lead as global VP and Chief of Design where he built their first in-house global design organization. Nuovo’s unique brainchild, Vertu, is EQT’s (Formerly Nokia’s) globally successful and rapidly growing brand of luxury communication devices which pioneered an entirely new market category. Nuovo’s many years of design leadership have resulted in scores of award winning designs, and in particular, under his creative direction, Nokia led the mobile industry over a decade with innovations and sales, including numerous best-selling mobile phones of all time. Nuovo is also the creator and co-founder and CEO of Datzing, a new cross platform “Micro Discovery” mobile application and service.