55 Walls Drive, Fairfield, Connecticut 06824, United States
Product Ventures Overview
Number of Employees
Under 49
Minimal Budget
$25,000 - $50,000
Average Hourly Rate
$185/hr
Year Founded
1994
Product Ventures is a brand strategy and design consultancy specializing in product and packaging innovation. We are unique in our ability to provide truly holistic design and 360 degrees of consideration to every challenge. As pioneers of the consumer-informed business actionable process, we transform ideas into purposeful, meaningful and memorable design solutions. Our cohesive team of experts encompasses industrial design, graphic design, consumer research, mechanical engineering, packaging engineering and prototyping. Bringing together decades of experience, unparalleled facilities and an unwavering dedication to solving clients'​ needs has empowered us to shape the world's best known brands.
Product Ventures Services
- Branding Agencies
- Graphic Design
- Package Design
- Product Design
- Market Research
Product Ventures Portfolio
- Branding & Logo Design75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Mighty American Ale
- Package DesignDoritos Crunch Nuts & Mix Packaging
- Branding & Logo DesignJuicy Juice
- Package DesignJuicy Juice / Disney-Pixar
- Package DesignSunnyD
- Package DesignNestlé Waters Sparkling
Product Ventures Team Bios
- Peter ClarkeFounder & CEOCEO Peter Clarke founded Product Ventures to help the world’s leading companies shape their best known brands with breakthrough design. Peter has been dedicated to creating valued products and packaging which improve peoples' lives.
- Victor MelendezExecutive Vice President - StrategyAs EVP Strategy, Victor engages with brand leaders to find opportunities to harness the power of design to fill their pipeline with actionable ideas. As former VP of Product Innovation at PepsiCo, VP of Marketing at Luxottica, and Director at InBev, Victor brings 25 years of experience.
- Randy AdisVP Consumer & Market ResearchRandy has more than 20 years of marketing research experience, having worked on the client-side for PepsiCo, Unilever and most recently as Head of Client Experience at Olson Zaltman. Randy has an undergraduate degree in Marketing from UCONN and a Masters in Marketing Research from UGA.
- Kurt LeunisCreative DirectorKurt is a 30 year veteran of the design and branding world as Creative Director for leading global package design firms like Interbrand, Sterling Brands and Desgrippes Gobé. He is a creative and visionary brand building expert with a comprehensive background in package design and brand building.
- Sarah PalombaSenior Client Director - Design StrategySarah leads Product Ventures' design strategy department by positioning brands for success with her experience in dissecting, understanding, and communicating key brand and product attributes that can be embodied through design.
- Eric HartmanVP Technologies & CommercializationEric leads Product Ventures' team of packaging engineers, mechanical engineers and prototyping specialists, and is responsible for the exploration of emerging technologies in an effort to develop innovative, environmentally responsible and sustainable packaging solutions.
Product Ventures Clients
- Anheuser-Busch
- Nestlé
- PepsiCo
Product Ventures Awards
- American Society on Aging
- Ameristar Awards
- Dupont Gold Award
- Dupont Diamond Award
- Good Design Award
- IDEA Award
- Medical Design Excellence
- Pentaward
- Red Dot Award
- Spark Award
- Teacher’s Choice Award
- Dow Packaging Innovation Award