Jose Dos Santos

Jose dos Santos has more than 30 years of experience in design and design management. He started his career as an industrial designer in Portugal. Dos Santos founded and sold two European design companies and served as Chief Design Officer for a large Internet company. In 2011, dos Santos joined Masco as a design director and stepped into his current role as Signify’s Head of Design, Americas in 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy for design(er) leadership in large corporations from the European University. He also earned a master’s degree in industrial design from Central Saint Martins in the UK and an executive master’s degree in product design and development from Northwestern University. Dos Santos has focused his work on user-centric design, and he is a diversity, equity and inclusion champion at Signify and within the lighting industry.