Antonio García is Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at TXI, founder of Dadwell & Co. and board advisor to Marwen, Mishkan, and AIGA Chicago. Prior to joining TXI’s executive leadership team, Antonio was Group Experience Director at Rightpoint. Before Rightpoint, he helped launch Northern Lab—Northern Trust’s internal innovation accelerator. Ahead of the Lab, he led gravitytank’s interaction design discipline and social innovation practice. Leading into innovation consulting, Antonio was Director of Strategy for Firebelly Design. In addition to design leadership, Antonio is a mentor, educator, and lecturer. He taught Communication Design and Visual Storytelling at Northwestern University’s Segal Design Institute; Customer Discovery as part of University of Chicago’s Polsky Center Entrepreneurship Essentials; and New Product Definitionat IIT Institute of Design. A frequent contributor to community conversations on the topics of diversity and inclusion, design ethics, culture and creativity, Antonio was named one of 50 People to Watch by Graphic Design USA. If he’s not hard at work, Antonio is most likely DJing, drawing, or training for his next marathon.