Scott Jost

With over 20 years studying, teaching and practicing product design and innovation and a dual MBA in Marketing Management and Corporate Strategy, Scott Jost is equally fluent in both left and right-brained dialects. His area of focus is consumer packaged goods branding and packaging consulting, where he has spent the last 15 years of his career applying design process methodologies to benefit his clients and their brands. In his role as Vice President of Innovation and Design he leads a consulting practice within the US’ largest stocking supplier of rigid packaging. In a few short years he has grown the practice from a 2-person internal service capability to a 15-person nationally recognized industrial design / brand strategy firm in a purpose-built Chicago loop loft space. The procedures and operations processes he developed and implemented have since earned the division ISO 9001:2008 certification. Scott’s brand strategy / industrial design client list spans categories from food and beverage to personal care to medical consumables, and includes such firms / brands as Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola Company, Gillette / Oral-B, Pfizer, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Miller Brewing, Reckitt Benckiser, Colgate-Palmolive, Frito-Lay, Novartis, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Monsanto and Baxter Healthcare. Scott has been quoted in numerous industry publications, including Sci-Tech Today, Packaging News, Time Compression, Packaging Design, Brand Packaging, Packaging World, Packaging Digest, Package Printing and Cosmetics & Personal Care. A frequent speaker on the subject of CPG design innovation at events that include HBA and the Packaging Summit, Scott holds numerous US design patents, and is a member of the Industrial Design Society of America, the Institute of Packaging Professionals, and the American Marketing Association. Specialties Fast-moving consumer goods, food & beverage, industrial design, brand strategy, design strategy, medical consummables, personal care