Alberto Villarreal — Head of Design

Alberto Villarreal is a design leader with over two decades of experience spanning the fields of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, and Design Strategy. He has led the design of products, spaces, and strategic vision for some of the most influential brands & organizations in the world, reaching millions of users and generating billions in revenue. Currently as Head of Design at Tonal, he leads both Hardware and Software design teams, including the functions of: Industrial Design, User Experience, and User Research. While his team's focus is on Product Design, his teams also provide support to adjacent groups: Content, Retail, Marketing. Previously, Alberto spent nearly a decade at Google as Creative Lead in the Consumer Hardware group at the Silicon Valley headquarters. Leading a team of industrial designers (with members distributed in three geographies), his role was centered on the creative direction of Google's mobile computing portfolio, including devices and accessories. His team at Google designed the highly recognized line of Pixel mobile products (from the first generation Pixel phone, through the Pixel 7 product family, as well the PixelBook & PixelBook Go laptops). Alberto had a significant contribution to the design language of the Google hardware products as well as to the hardware design organization. Before joining Google, he co-founded the award-winning firm AGENT with architect Michel Rojkind, working for high profile clients including The Coca-Cola Company, the Mexican Federal Government, Hewlett-Packard, and Nike among others. With more than 50 international awards, his work has been recognized with global accolades and some of the most prestigious honors in the design & architecture industries, including: Red Dot Luminary Award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, iF Product Design Award and IDEA Award, among others. His work has been exhibited globally and has received extensive media coverage worldwide. Relevant speaking engagements include: Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (China), Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Barcelona), IDSA Northeast Conference (New York), Google I/O Extended (San Francisco), United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Transportation (Rio de Janeiro), and TEDx (Mexico City). Alberto was listed as one of the 20 Most Influential Latinos in Tech in 2017 and 2018 by CNET. In 2011 he was included in the list of 11 Most Influential Mexican Entrepreneurs by Milenio. And he was also featured by ProMexico Magazine as one of the “50 Mexican Names in the Global Creative Scene".

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Design Leader in Consumer Electronics and Fitness Technology.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 20 yrs 6 mos