Darwin is a “designpreneur” at the intersection of design, technology & the arts. 

He is a transdisciplinary service designer who uses serious play, visual thinking, and foresight/futures in his practice. A self-identifying philomath, this itinerant curiosity has helped him deliver nuanced insights into his work as a facilitator, trainer, consultant, and artist. 

Digital marketing has been Darwin’s domain whilst he was in corporate for the past 20 years. He was last the Asia Pacific Digital Marketing Manager for a UK-based global asset manager, looking after 10 markets in the APAC region. He straddled both client and agency sides across the years. And has advised top MNCs and regional players like Polycom (US), Dow Corning (UK), Indosat (ID), Singtel (SG), and others on their marketing challenges. 

Darwin is currently the co-founder and director of a strategic innovation design agency called ThinkersX. He is also the founder & principal consultant of pxdlabs, a service design provider. He is lastly a founding member of a collective of serious play practitioners in the region called the Faculty of Play. 

Darwin read Industrial Engineering (Mapua), completed grad cert in Applied Innovation (SMU), and attended studio arts/painting programmes (Metafora/ Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts). He is a certified facilitator for the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and exhibited artist.