After a first career as a software developer, Marc found that the field of Design allowed him to combine his passions for ethnographic methods, language, systems thinking, and people. His work as an designer, educator, and researcher brought him together with Fit Associate´s co-founder, Jenna Date, through a shared commitment to shipping design that improves life.

Marc’s personal client list includes BBC, the U.S. Army, Crate and Barrel, Microsoft, Allstate, Caterpillar, Diamond Partners, and Texas Instruments. He has taught both lecture and studio courses at Carnegie Mellon’s Graduate School of Design (where he was the 2003 Nierenberg Distinguished Chair of Design) and the Institute of Design, IIT, in Chicago.

Prior to founding Fit Associates, Marc served as Chief Experience Officer of the pace-setting user experience consultancy HannaHodge, where he was responsible for the firm´s user-centered process, team culture, and research initiatives. He was a Director of User Experience at Cambridge Technology Partners. Prior to that he was a consultant with seeSpace, VP of Design for Digital Knowledge Assets, and a Senior Architect in the Advanced Technologies Group at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Marc has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Linguistics, and completed requirements for a Master’s in Computational Linguistics at New York University.

Marc frequently speaks and conducts hands-on workshops in industry and academic settings around the world. He currently serves on the advisory boards of UXNet, The Interaction Design Association, and Rosenfeld Media, and is on the editorial staff of interactions magazine.