Krystal Persaud is a product design executive and startup veteran with over 10 years of experience launching consumer tech products. She is passionate about using toy and game design principles to highlight important issues. As Senior Director of Product Design at littleBits, she democratized invention and coding for kids. As Founder of Grouphug and Wildgrid, she lowered the barrier to adopting climate technologies like solar. She’s appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank where she won an investment from Mark Cuban. She’s an adjunct instructor of interaction design at NJIT, SVA, and Parsons. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Industrial Design.