Perry Klebahn
Design educator and entrepreneur
Perry Klebahn is an entrepreneur, product designer and teacher at Stanford's d.school. He founded a snowshoe company and later became chief executive of Timbuk2.
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About Perry Klebahn
Perry Klebahn is a product designer, entrepreneur and teacher. He is a co-founding member of the faculty at Stanford's d.school and has taught at Stanford since 1996. He studied physics at Wesleyan University (B.A., 1988) and product design at Stanford (master's degree, 1991). He turned his master's thesis in product design into a business, founding Atlas Snowshoe Company. After selling it, he became head of Sales and Marketing at Patagonia in 1999, and in 2005 he was named chief executive of the bag company Timbuk2. At the d.school he has served as an adjunct professor and director of executive education. He is part of the founding teaching teams for Launchpad, d.leadership and Bootcamp, and he teaches with real projects, rapid ideation and prototyping. Ideaflow is among his books.