Benjamin is an angel investor and Director of User Experience at WeWork. He is passionate about creating new products, brands, and businesses based on a better understanding of real human needs.
At WeWork, Benjamin works closely with the Head of User Experience, Tomer Sharon, and the rest of the UX team to make the member experience visible to all of WeWork and help the company decide what to work on using evidence of what members need.
Before WeWork, Benjamin consulted for fortune 500s, international corporations, government, foundations, and non-profits across a variety of industries for clients including BlackRock, Ford, Microsoft, American Express, Citigroup, Bloomberg, British Airways, Omron, Nike, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and several New York based startups including Celmatix.
Benjamin holds an M.F.A. in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2012) and a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University (2007).
He has been published in design books including Becoming a Design Entrepreneur by Stephen Heller and Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research by Tomer Sharon.
Outside of work, Benjamin enjoys teaching. He has taught and mentored students at Cornell, Harvard, Parsons, NYU, and The School of Visual Arts as well as several incubators and accelerators including Techstars, a New York based startup accelerator. Benjamin also enjoys spending time in nature, marathon and ultra trail running, drone racing, and art. His sculpture has been exhibited in the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco and is in permanent installation on Emory University’s campus.