Chief Design Officer, Varo

August de los Reyes is a designer dedicated to harnessing technology for human well-being. He is the Chief Design Officer for Varo, a company on track to become the first all-mobile national bank in US history. Prior to Varo, August was most recently Director of User Experience at Google leading the Ecosystem Design team within the Search and Google Assistant organization, a portfolio which included initiatives as broad-ranging as Food Ordering, Multi-modal Frameworks, and Ambient Computing. August has also led teams at Pinterest and Microsoft, where he spent over a decade helping pioneer multi-touch interfaces, new ways of measuring emotion, and, most recently, helping to break ground for Inclusive Design in the digital arena. August holds an MDesS with distinction from Harvard and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.