Joe Rinaldi
Business Development Director
Joe Rinaldi is Happy Cog’s Business Development Director. He is a relationship manager with a background in design, a passion for user centered solutions, and a lifelong dedication to community development. His professional background spans interactive marketing, recruiting, freelance illustration, teaching, and user experience consulting. Prior to joining Happy Cog he partnered and consulted with clients in the pharmaceutical, communications, financial services, insurance, retail/e-commerce, and chemical industries.
Joe earned his BA in Leadership Studies at The University of Richmond’s Jepson School and studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art & Design. This means he may be the only person in America to have attended two schools with bugs for mascots.
A passionate Philadelphian and community architect, Joe helped to organize the Design, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Forum, and more recently co-founded PhilaMade, a professional organization dedicated to celebrating, inspiring, and cultivating creative brilliance in the Philadelphia community.
Online, Joe frequents Twitter and Facebook. In real life, Joe enjoys spending time with his family, reading, going to the movies, drawing, his dad’s Phillies Sunday ticket plan, and, when no one is looking, comics.
Selected Articles and Publications
- Buying Wins
- December 8 2011, Cognition
- Fix Recruiting
- September 11 2011, Cognition
- What’s the ROI on Cool?
- July 14 2011, Cognition
- Building Community
- April 7 2011, Cognition