Wayne Neale

Wayne is a veteran of the software industry working at both large and small growth companies. Wayne has held several roles including executive sales, marketing, product, business development and user experience. In addition to being a partner at GrowthX, Wayne is the founder and CEO of Kydak, an experience design innovation company working on product and service design for startups and fortune 50 companies alike. Wayne is co-leader of IxDA Phoenix and founder of Phoenix UX. Wayne has held executive positions at SAP, ShoppingScout, Khimetrics (acquired by SAP), ITax Group (acquired by First Advantage), and Kodak and was the co-founder of iZoom and Fairway Productions. Dr. Neale holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Virginia Tech, masters in human factors from CSUN and bachelors in cognitive psychology from CSULB. Wayne has an enduring curiosity in how the world is designed and unrelenting passion to make it a better place to live, work, learn and play.