Mark Champkins

Mark Champkins FRSA (born 25 April 1977) is a product designer best known for his 2007 appearance on Dragons' Den.[1]

Mark Champkins

FRSA
Born (1977-04-25) 25 April 1977
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, Royal College of Art
OccupationProduct designer

Career

Champkins studied manufacturing engineering at the University of Cambridge and industrial design engineering at the Royal College of Art in London.[2] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts[3] and an industrial advisor to Cambridge University Engineering Department.[4]

Champkins' design for a line of "self-heating" crockery was awarded British Invention of the Year at the British Invention Show.[5] [6][7]

In 2004, Champkins won a business award from NESTA[8] and founded Concentrate Design, a company that develops products intended to help pupils to concentrate at school. Champkins pitched the enterprise on Dragons' Den in 2007, winning an investment from Peter Jones.[9]

In 2011, Champkins was named inventor-in-residence at the London Science Museum and tasked with designing products inspired by the museum collection.[10]

Champkins is the author of The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions.[11]

References
  1. BBC Dragons' Den Website
  2. Biography on Smarter Products Website Archived 1 November 2007 at archive.today
  3. RSA Fellows Profile
  4. Cambridge University Engineering Department Website
  5. Royal College of Art Innovation Unit Website Archived 20 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Tomorrow's World". Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  7. "Discovery Channel". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  8. Independent Newspaper
  9. Simply Business
  10. "Science Museum Website". Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  11. "The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions". HarperCollins Publishers UK. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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