about US
Located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, Design Integrity is an award-winning new product consulting firm founded in 1998. Our staff is comprised of engineering, industrial design, marketing, innovation, and new product consulting professionals with a passion for design, problem solving, and outside-the-box thinking.
We provide new product consulting and design services for clients in all phases of new product development from discovery research, definition, innovation, design, and engineering development through production start-up and market launch.
Our staff members have worked in various corporate and consulting positions for firms including Snap-on, Newell Rubbermaid, Abbott Labs, AbbVie, Baxter, ITW, CNH, Tennant, Continental Automotive, LAGA, HLB, Motorola Solutions, Cummins Allison, Jabil, and Komatsu.
management
Our management team is comprised of senior managers with over twenty years of experience each in both corporate and consulting design management. Our team has a passion for innovation and design, and we are actively involved in all projects that pass through our company.
Philip Anthony, P.E. – President
Phil Anthony is the founder and president of Design Integrity. Over his thirty-five years of engineering and product design experience, Phil has managed, designed, and developed over one hundred innovative new products across industrial, medical, and consumer markets.
Phil earned his BSME from Lehigh University in 1986. He received his MSME from Northwestern University in 1991 and his MBA (Master of Management) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern in 1997.
Phil has been awarded fourteen US utility patents. He is a proven innovation facilitator and program manager, and he has served as an expert witness on five cases related to product engineering design, trade secrets, trade secret misappropriation, patent prosecution, and patent litigation.
His career includes tenures at Snap-on, OMNI Filter, HLB offices in Chicago and Waltham, and twenty-five years at Design Integrity.
Scott Rote – Partner, VP of Engineering
During his twenty-eight year career, Scott has worked exclusively in the field of new product design and development. Scott is a world-class project manager, and he has driven several dozen complex engineering programs with seven-to-eight figure budgets to successful production and market launch.
Scott earned his BSME from Marquette University in 1989, and he received his MBA from the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago in 1994. Scott joined Design Integrity as a partner in 2000.
Aaron Eiger – Partner, Industrial Design
Over his twenty-five year career in design, Aaron has managed, designed, and contributed to dozens of innovative new products that have succeeded in the marketplace. Aaron is a proven innovator and a creative mind. He has been a key collaborator on our ID and engineering programs at DI, and he is an expert with SolidWorks software.
Aaron received his Bachelor of Industrial Design from Syracuse University in 1992. He has been a partner at Design Integrity since 2000. Aaron’s work career includes tenures at Wielgus Product Models, Brooks Stevens, HLB in Chicago, LAGA, and 24 years as a partner at Design Integrity.
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