Benedikt Lehnert
Co-Founder & CEO at 74West LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Lehnert is a design-led technology executive and founder with 20+ years of experience shaping products and teams that serve hundreds of millions of users across startups and Fortune 10 companies. As a hands-on advisor and CEO of 74West (and now The Entrepreneurs), he partners directly with CEOs and boards to turn strategy into executable customer-centric design and product outcomes. He has led design organizations of 1,000+ people at SAP and shaped Microsoft’s Fluent and M365 experiences, marrying systems thinking with craft honed growing up in a family of craftspeople. An Entrepreneurship & Design Fellow at Princeton and founding board member of the Design Executive Council, he researches AI, co-creativity, neuroaesthetics, and design’s socio-economic responsibility while teaching the next generation of founders. He’s also an angel investor and keynote speaker whose work spans award-winning hardware, software and brand design, and who treats accessibility as one of this century’s biggest design challenges. Based between Princeton and New York, Benedikt blends sleeves-up execution with strategic cultural transformation at scale.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saarbrücken
German, English
Github Skills (9)
textmate8
sublime-text8
pocket7
custom-theme6
text-editor3
jekyll1
rails1
bull1
ruby1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benediktlehnert/benediktlehnert.github.io
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 year 8 months
benediktlehnert/typopocketguide
Dec 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pocketdaytypographicadventures
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