##{"id":98216,"date":"2021-11-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/spacetalk-appoints-chief-design-officer\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:00:00","slug":"spacetalk-appoints-chief-design-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/spacetalk-appoints-chief-design-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacetalk Appoints Chief Design Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ADELAIDE, Australia<\/span>, Nov. 26, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>Highlights<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Spacetalk appoints <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Darbyshire<\/span> as Chief Design Officer<br \/>&#8212; Founder and Chairman of Tangerine, Martin is a globally recognised design&#160;leader<\/p>\n<p>Spacetalk Ltd. (ASX:SPA) (&#034;Spacetalk&#034; or &#034;Company&#034;), developer of innovative technologies that keep families safe and connected, is delighted to announce the appointment of <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Darbyshire<\/span> as Chief Design Officer (&#034;CDO&#034;). Martin joins Spacetalk from <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span> based design firm Tangerine, the company he founded in 1989, and where he remains Chairman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder9856\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1696432\/MARTIN_DARBYSHIRE_01_209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1696432\/MARTIN_DARBYSHIRE_01_209.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Spacetalk CDO and Chairman of Tangerine, Martin Darbyshire (Photograph by John Munro)\" alt=\"Spacetalk CDO and Chairman of Tangerine, Martin Darbyshire (Photograph by John Munro)\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>Spacetalk CDO and Chairman of Tangerine, Martin Darbyshire (Photograph by John Munro)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since its founding, Tangerine has worked with some of the world&#8217;s most renowned brands, including Apple, British Airways, Huawei, LG, Toyota and Virgin Australia, innovating to design compelling customer experiences and globally recognised products and services. A young Tangerine team, consisting of <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Darbyshire<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Clive Grinyer<\/span> and Sir <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathan Ive<\/span> were instrumental in strategic direction setting for Apple and LG in the early 1990s. Martin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Designers and Chartered Society of Designers and a Trustee of the UK Design Council.<\/p>\n<p>Martin will work closely with the Spacetalk team to further embed and advance its design-led culture as the Company embarks on its next phase of growth. The CDO role will encompass a broad spectrum of design leadership responsibilities including strategic design oversight of the next generation Spacetalk kids smartwatch phone devices and apps to deliver transformative customer experiences. <\/p>\n<p>Spacetalk&#8217;s ownership and control of its end-to-end technology and design is unique amongst its peers providing an important source of strategic competitive advantage. Martin&#8217;s appointment will further enhance Spacetalk&#8217;s existing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>(1) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tangerine.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/tangerine.net\/<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>(2) Dr <span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Gien<\/span> is Chair of <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia&#8217;s<\/span> Good Design Awards, Deputy Chair of the Australian Design Council and former President of the World Design Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Spacetalk CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Mark Fortunatow<\/span> said: &#034;I warmly welcome Martin to Spacetalk. Martin and his team at Tangerine were closely involved in the design and development of our award-winning Spacetalk Adventurer watch, and his international reputation in the design world is legendary and well precedes him.<\/p>\n<p>&#034;Spacetalk aspires to be a truly design-led technology company. Together with Non-Executive Director Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Brandon Gien<\/span>, himself a globally recognised design advocate, Martin&#8217;s appointment as CDO has enabled us to build a formidable and world class design team to take our products and customer experiences to the next level.&#034;<\/p>\n<p>Spacetalk CDO and Chairman of Tangerine Martin Darbyshire said: &#034;I am delighted to build on the design leadership work that Tangerine has completed for Spacetalk in this last year. I look forward to helping this fast-moving business move forward and to put design at the heart of their business strategy; supporting Mark and the Spacetalk team to create a customer experience that is truly transformational.&#034;<\/p>\n<p>This announcement has been authorised by Spacetalk CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Mark Fortunatow<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Spacetalk devices and app platform, please visit: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetalkwatch.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.spacetalkwatch.com\/<\/a>. <br \/>Investor Centre: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/investors.spacetalkwatch.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/investors.spacetalkwatch.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact: <br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Dimitri Burshtein<\/span><br \/>Investor Relations and Corporate Development<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:dburshtein@spacetalkwatch.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">dburshtein@spacetalkwatch.com<\/a><br \/>M: +61 493 041 751<\/p>\n<p>Image Attachments Links:<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asianetnews.net\/view-attachment?attach-id=408742\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/asianetnews.net\/view-attachment?attach-id=408742<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Caption: Spacetalk CDO and Chairman of Tangerine, <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Darbyshire<\/span> (Photograph by <span class=\"xn-person\">John Munro<\/span>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder0\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 26, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Highlights &#8212; Spacetalk appoints Martin Darbyshire as Chief Design Officer&#8212; Founder and Chairman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}