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At my highest value, I deliver inventive solutions that invigorate conventional business models. My passion for uncovering and executing on innovative ideas has taken me from co-founding an award-winning mobile messaging company to leading innovation programs for a high-end technology solutions provider.

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I am a trained user experience design researcher and strategist, innovation manager, and workshop facilitator helping teams identify market-ready solutions and repeatable, scalable business models. My work focuses on designing disciplined, evidence-based business experiments that move an insight from an idea to a validated business model.



Across the startup and corporate ecosystems, I have a proven ability to manage change and deliver rapid learning outcomes. I approach my work with the confidence and learning reflexes of a curious, creative leader to identify insights that will drive progress toward key milestones.

Hamilton Perkins Collection Bags.

In 2014, Hamilton Perkins founded Hamilton Perkins Collection, an independent brand, designing and producing unique and award winning bags and accessories from recycled materials.

Hamilton Perkins Collection exists to create timeless limited edition bags made from recycled plastic water bottles, pineapple leaf fiber, and billboard vinyl. The result is that no two bags are ever the same.

Our first design, the Earth Bag Premium, was created so that our customers would not only carry a bag that was stylish but carry a bag they could be proud of.  We surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to obtain their thoughts and feedback for each component of the Earth Bag Premium, which soon became one of our most popular designs.

Perkins was the winner of the Virginia Velocity Tour hosted by the Governor of Virginia, and the recipient of a HUD Community Development Block Grant. The non-profit B Lab honored Hamilton Perkins Collection as a "Best for the World Overall" B Corporation in 2017.

Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Money Magazine, and The Washington Post.

The brand is currently offered in nearly 100 leading department stores and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.