Tony Owens
Director
 Tony has over 20 years
experience as an engineer, consultant and senior manager in Ireland, the UK and Germany. His skill set is broad: the 'hard side' includes project management, inventive design, analysis, value engineering and design for highly-regulated industries, while the 'soft side' relates to building high performance project teams and organisational innovation.
Tony's relaxations include mountain trail walking and astronomy.
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Heike Owens
Director
Heike has more than 15 years experience in international business-to-business, public/social and consumer research, both quantitative and qualitative, gained at several London agencies.
She is a capable depth interviewer, group moderator and project manager, with the experience to pick out subtle patterns in respondent behaviour and attitudes. Heike's analyses are clear, succinct, actionable and fact based. Her main areas of specialism are New Product/Service Development, Customer Relationship Management and public & stakeholder consultation.
Outside work, Heike enjoys socialising, tennis and photography.
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Mark Costello
Senior Design Associate
 Mark's background is industrial design. Trained at NCAD in Ireland, he developed his career in the design departments of Korean multinational LG Electronics and in Electrolux Australia, before joining Dublin-based design consultants Boxclever in 2003. He became freelance in 2007, and became a Shibumi Associate in August 2007.
Mark is a travel enthusiast and is fascinated by what happens at the interfaces between different cultures. |
