# John Maeda

john maeda (born 1966) is an American executive, designer, technologist. His work explores the area where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technologist." He is EVP Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient where he helps established companies transform digitally by bridging business strategy and engineering-at-scale with computational design. == Early life and education == john maeda was born in 1966 in Seattle, Washington where his father owned a tofu factory.Maeda was originally a Computer Science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper.