David Gómez-Rosado
Editor-In-Chief & Founder, Want Magazine
Twitter: @dahveedgr
Web: gomez-rosado.com
David has been architecting, organizing and leading large scale user-experience efforts and processes for 16 years. Some sample roles: Creative Director at Nike.com, UX Manager at Microsoft, Vice President of UX at Ask.com, Lithium.com and BitTorrent. Chief Interface Officer at what is now LBI, Creative Director of DLJDirect (now Etrade) and Apogee Networks, Chief Creative Office at Whitestone technologies, and founder of several start-ups. Through these efforts he has learned about the impact of good experiences in people’s quality of life… so a quest for educating both the industry and raising the end user’s own expectations has lead to the creation of Want Magazine. David holds BFA and BID from RISD. Teaches and speaks when requested. His own favorite user experience is Nutella (with a proper butter knife).
Ken Grobe
Managing Editor, Want Magazine
Twitter: @theideaczar
Web: kengrobe.com
Ken’s career is a multi-faceted one, always with the goal of providing impactful content and messaging. As an award-winning copywriter, he’s written for global ad agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and leading brands. As a journalist, he writes for various publications and provides social media industry coverage for Examiner.com. As an editor, he produced graphic novelizations of works by Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, and Raymond Chandler. He was Ask.com’s first content manager and chief blogger. As a humorist, he led a comedy/rock band to the stage of CBGBs and into the pages of national magazines, and writes sketch comedy for San Francisco’s Killing My Lobster. He once performed on THE GONG SHOW—and won. Ask him about it sometime.
