Drew Bamford Email Address

Corporate Vice President

HTC United States

Drew Bamford builds products and experiences at the intersection of human desires and bleeding edge technologies. Drew leads HTC Creative Labs, a cross-functional team of researchers, designers and engineers with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Taipei. When he started the experience design team at HTC in 2006, Drew helped drive the transformation of HTC from ODM to global consumer brand by creating a branded user experience for HTC products with TouchFLO on Windows Mobile and then HTC Sense on Android. Today, Drew and his team are again transforming HTC’s business by design, by creating the VR experiences that will power HTCs VIVEPORT content platform in the future.Before joining HTC, Drew founded the user experience design practice at TEAGUE, a product design consultancy in Seattle, where he and his team designed interactive products for such varied clients as Microsoft, Panasonic, Palm, Nike, Starbucks, and Boeing. At Microsofts Hardware Design Group, Drew led the hardware/software interaction design for a wide range of consumer products, from childrens toys and game devices to wireless telephones. Drews earlier experience includes pioneering intranet design work at IDEO and user interface design for an early tablet device at Silicon Graphics. At Stanford, Drew studied Product Design and Human-Computer Interaction design in the heart of Silicon Valley.Drew serves on the board at the Tacoma Art Museum and is a member of the community advisory board at the Institute for Global Engagement, University of Washington Tacoma.