PY is a designer with over 30 years of practice across non-profits, consulting, and global corporations. 

He holds a degree from Les Ateliers (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle), Paris.

From 1991 to 2000, before taking on corporate responsibilities, PY ran Design Co Operation, an NGO he founded in Harare, Zimbabwe, co-developing products and services with small-scale informal entrepreneurs.

Since 2000, he has led design at Moen, Legrand, Orange, Philips Lighting, and Signify, and served as Global VP of Experience for Publicis Sapient France — consistently using design to look at the whole picture.

As he liked to tell non-designer colleagues: “don’t ask a designer for a bridge — ask them what’s the best way to cross the river.”

PY has served two terms on the Executive Board of the World Design Organization, advised the Design Management Institute, and chairs the Professional Advice Council of CY School of Design in France.