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i4 Product Design promotes business development boss to its board



An executive who was a key champion of i4 Product Design’s move to employee ownership has been made a director of the business.

Tristan Elliott has been promoted director of business development, joining the founders and employee director on the board of the firm that has worked on projects such as a weight-loss headband, cordless chainsaw and the revolutionary Vert Rotors microcompressor.

He joined the Edinburgh-based consultancy five years ago as business development manager in a move aimed at diversifying the firm’s client base. He contributed to its expansion of electronics and software capabilities.

The company said that since then he had been directly responsible for bringing 150 projects to its portfolio and had spearheaded i4 Product Design’s recent partnerships with company creation programme Converge and Technology Scotland, manager of the Product Design Scotland network.

He works with a range of businesses to bring their product idea to reality or evolve their existing product of technology with a competitive edge.

Elliott said: “I’m excited to drive further improvement initiatives within i4 Product Design to extend our services offering and customer experience.”

Managing director Brian Combe said: “Tristan brings drive, enthusiasm and a genuine interest in what our clients want to achieve combined with a passion for supporting their vision.

“My co-founders and I hope to leave i4 Product Design in the safe hands of a new management team who are able to take the business to the next level; we believe we have made a very good start by entrusting Tristan in what will be a pivotal role in achieving this.”

Elliott is a graduate of the University of Queensland with an honours degree in biotechnology. His early career was in drug design and development and he then moved into pharma and biotech consulting. More recently he was general manager for a wastewater business.



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