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Oliver Heath

As a leading figure in biophilic design, Oliver is working with global modular flooring manufacturer Interface to raise the awareness of the benefits of design inspired by nature. A prominent thinker in the architecture industry and owner of Heath…

Interface

Interface, Inc. is a global commercial flooring company with an integrated collection of carpet tiles and resilient flooring, including luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and nora® rubber flooring. Our modular system helps customers create beautiful interior…

Sukirti Jha

Nigel Stansfield

In his role, Nigel is responsible for setting and leading the company’s growth strategy throughout the EAAA region. This includes driving growth in the core carpet tile and resilient flooring business, while also bringing new offerings to market…

Sonya Lehner

Sonya is the Digital Marketing Manager for Interface Americas. Though she’s still relatively new to the flooring industry, she’s spent her career building brands for digital businesses. She has a passion for creating good content, and combines…

Natalie Makowski

Natalie is Product Design Manager, EMEA at Interface. She has a degree in Textile Design For Fashion & Interiors BSC. Natalie has 12 years at Interface as a Product Designer and was awarded Lord Barnby Award for Most Promising Person Employed in the…

Laetitia Boucher

Graduated with a BTS in International Business, Laëtitia began her career in 1999 and joined the Moniteur Group in 2003, as Business Manager with Key Accounts and SMEs. She then joined the CFPJ (Center for Training and Development of Journalists)…

Esther Chang

Esther Chang is Executive Director of Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS), the Singapore local network of the United Nations Global Compact.

Fancy George

Mara Linn Becher

Mara Linn is Sustainability Manager at Interface and in this role she is responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Her focus is on sustainable, reduced carbon and future-proof construction. As part of the Climate Take Back mission, together…

Becky Gordon

Becky is the Sustainability Manager UK & Ireland for Interface. As a key advocate for Interface’s Climate Take Back mission, and member of the Interface global sustainability team, Becky focuses on the commercialisation of sustainability in the…

Jon Khoo

Jon Khoo is a Regional Sustainability Manager at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Jon specialises in the commercialisation of Interface’s sustainability initiatives and response to the current…

Steve Colling

Steve is Head of Insights in EMEA at Interface. As a psychology graduate, Steve has spent his career researching human behaviour. For over 10 years he studied commercial office markets around the world, bringing together the analytics of…

Mindy O'Gara

With a passion for design and learning, Mindy O’Gara blends both of these talents into her daily role as Director of Product and Learning Experience at Interface. After achieving a Bachelor of Interior Design and working as a commercial interior…

Jan Peter van Deutekom

Jan Peter van Deutekom is a Product Development and Portfolio expert. Jan Peter has held many roles across the local and regional teams including Business Development, Sales Management and Customer Services Management. Currently Jan Peter leads the…

Bonnie Casamassima

Lisa Byrne

Kate Shepherd

As an independent brand consultant with over 20 years’ experience in design trend forecasting, Kate regularly collaborates with the Interface marketing, design and product development teams to spark ideas and inspire creative thinking. Fuelled…

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading…

Gretchen Wagner

Gretchen has been part of the Interface family for five years as a member of the Creative Team. She is a Designer based in Atlanta that works closely with Interface’s social media team, product styling and trend forecasting. Prior to working at…

Maxine Chen

Maxine is Interface’s Asia Pacific Sustainability Communications Specialist. She was called to the Singapore bar in 2017, and her writing has appeared on outlets including the global conservation news site Mongabay and the Straits and Business…

Martin Brown

Martin is an innovative sustainability ‘provocateur’, advocate and business improvement consultant with his Fairsnape practice, based in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire UK. He is the co-founder of Living Future Institute Europe and also…

David Congram

David Congram is Head Content Editor at Indesign Media Asia Pacific. From his base in Sydney, Australia, David reports on Asia Pacific’s inspiring feats of architecture and design. He is a regular contributor to several design, architecture,…

Lauren White

Lauren is the Sr. Digital Marketing Manager at Interface. She has spent most of her career working with companies in the commercial interiors industry. Lauren was named a Rising Star at the 2017 Social Shake-Up, presented by PR News and Social Media…

Merlyn Mathew

Merlyn is an architect and urban policy practitioner, pursuing a master’s degree in Sustainability Management at Columbia University, New York. Her team, Soil Sink, was the winner of Drawdown: Innovate, a student-led competition organized by Net…

Jay Gould

Jay Gould is President and CEO of Interface, Inc. He was promoted to the CEO position in March 2017, becoming only the third CEO in the company’s 43-year history. Jay has set Interface’s path forward with a new strategic vision to lead the…

Nirmal Kishnani

Dr Nirmal Kishnani is an Associate Professor at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. He is the force behind several platforms on sustainable design in Asia. FuturArc magazine, where he is editor-in-chief, is a…

Savannah Weeks

Savannah Weeks serves as Global PR Manager, and as such considers herself Interface’s jack of all trades and master of none. Her favourite part of working for Interface is the opportunity to learn and write about science and sustainability,…

Mandy Leeming

A skilled designer with over 25 years’ industry experience, Mandy heads up a team of five designers that develop new products for Interface EMEA. Mandy has been part of the Interface design team since the late 1980s, when the first UK design…

Christine Needles

Christine is Interface’s Senior Director of Global Communications and Public Relations.

Julian Treasure

Julian is a sound and communication expert. He travels the world training people to listen better and create healthier sound. He is author of the books How to be Heard and Sound Business.

Lorraine Francis

Lorraine Francis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a Regional Director of Hospitality Interiors at Gensler. An award-winning author and Hospitality leader, Lorraine works with major brands and boutique clients to deliver a large breadth of architectural and…

David Gerson

David Gerson is the Vice President of Marketing for Inscape, an innovative, commercial interiors manufacturing company. In that capacity, he and his team are responsible for curating the physical and digital brand experience across numerous mediums…

Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor, Project Director at Peldon Rose. Workplace interior specialists, Peldon Rose, are based in London. Their aim is to transform office design for the benefit of people and business. To find out more about Peldon Rose and their work,…

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson is the author of ‘Imaginary Cities’ (Influx Press) and the forthcoming book on space and memory, ‘Tidewrack’ (Vintage/FSG). He writes primarily on the intersection of architecture with technology, politics, games and culture.…

Giles Hutchins

Giles Hutchins is a visionary speaker, writer and adviser who goes one step beyond conventional sustainable business. Formerly a management consultant with KPMG, more recently Global Director of Sustainability for Atos, co-founder of Biomimicry for…

Jean Nayar

A devotee of high-quality interior design and architecture, Jean Nayar writes about the work of the world’s top architects and designers. Dedicated to celebrating the transformative influence of good and sustainable design, she also offers…

Catie Ryan

Catie is a Sr. Project Manager at Terrapin Bright Green, where she has co-authored “The Economics of Biophilia” (2012), “14 Patterns of Biophilic Design” (2014), and a peer reviewed article in the ArchNet International Journal of…

Richard Hassel

Richard Hassell is the co-Founding Director of WOHA, an internationally-acclaimed architectural practice based in Singapore. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989, and was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT…

Joe Clancy

Joe Clancy is a Project Landscape Architect for Bradley Murphy Design Ltd and emerging expert on biophilic design. He is the co-author of Terrapin Bright Green’s 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design: Improving Health and Well-Being in the Built…

Dr. Stephen Kellert

Dr. Stephen R. Kellert (1943-2016) was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University. His work focused on understanding the connection between nature and humanity with a particular interest in the human need for nature, and sustainable design and…

Bill Witherspoon

Bill Witherspoon is the founder of The Sky Factory, a fine art and digital technology company that creates biophilic illusions of nature. Bill’s training as an artist and his experience as a serial entrepreneur built the Sky Factory into an…

Dr. Eva Selhub

Dr. Eva Selhub is an internationally recognized expert, physician, author, speaker and consultant in the fields of stress, resilience, mind-body medicine and working with the natural environment to achieve maximum health and wellbeing. Dr. Eva, as…

Sir Cary Cooper

Cary is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on well‐being and stress at work and is the media’s first choice for comment on workplace issues. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The…