Arnie Lund has managed user experience teams at several of the leading companies in the industry, and has a passion for management and for driving innovation in design and user research practices. He is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2011. He co-chaired the CHI conferences in 1998 (Los Angeles, US) and 2008 (Florence, Italy), and served on the HFES Executive Council where he oversaw human-computer interaction standards activities. He has also served as president of the board of directors for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE), and on the board of directors for INFINITEC (focusing on infinite potential through assistive technologies).

Arnie's book User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams (Morgan Kaufmann) was published in 2011, and he has published widely on R&D management. You can follow his tweets @arnielund.