David Lancashire, Co-Founder & CEO, projekt202

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David Lancashire is the Co-Founder & CEO of projekt202, an experience-driven transformation firm headquartered in Dallas, TX. Over the past 16 years, projekt202 has refined a methodology for creating and delivering improved experiences for employees and customers everywhere. By observing people in their everyday environments, projekt202 can reveal the reality of their needs to drive real technology innovation. Under Mr. Lancashire’s leadership, projekt202 made the Inc. 5000 list for seven consecutive years and the Dallas 100 list of fastest-growing privately-held companies for six straight years. Today the company has over 400 employees with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Renowned industry analyst firm Gartner noted, “The perspectives and processes projekt202 is focusing on will, over time, become standard operating procedure for any application development project.” Before joining projekt202, Mr. Lancashire was the founder and CEO of Geniant, a technology management consulting firm. From its inception in 1998 to its acquisition of three business units by 2005, Geniant became the third fastest-growing tech company in the FastTech 50, gained recognition as one of Microsoft’s top National Partners and was a three-time Dallas 100 award winner. Geniant’s success led to its 2007 sale to EMC, a transaction valued at 181 times the original invested capital. Mr. Lancashire has previously served in senior management roles for ObjectSpace, Uniplex, and Amstrad PLC. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, graduating from the CASS Business School in London. Mr. Lancashire and his family reside in Dallas.