Before joining plastic housewares giant Tupperware at its Orlando, Fla., headquarters in 2001, David Kusuma worked for three years as global design manager at Exatec LLC, the Detroit-based, automotive window glazing joint venture between GE Plastics and Bayer Corp. From 1987-98 he worked in Pittsburgh as a senior design engineer for materials supplier Bayer (and its predecessor companies Miles Inc. and Mobay Corp.), and he began his professional career in that city in 1985 working as an industrial designer for Fisher Scientific Co.
The 41-year-old New York native also holds four academic degrees – a bachelor of fine arts in industrial design from Carnegie-Mellon University, a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's of science in management from Purdue University, and an international MBA from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Additionally, Kusuma is a fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America (www.idsa.org), and currently its international section chair. He is a former executive board member of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (www.icsid.org) and of IDSA.