Piers Thomas

Piers Thomas began his career in California as Designer at Large at Patagonia, working across technical and lifestyle product categories before founding Random Moment Limited in 2000. Since then he has helped companies develop products, build capability and grow internationally, translating ideas into commercially successful products and businesses on a global scale. His work sits at the intersection of people, performance, product and planet, combining design, engineering and commercial strategy to create technically credible, commercially successful products. He has led innovation programmes across Olympic and Elite sport, contributing to programmes associated with more than 200 Olympic medals and three Tour de France victories, and founded Elite Textile Interface to advance performance clothing systems through garment engineering, 3D body scanning and computational fluid dynamics. Alongside his consultancy, Piers is an entrepreneur, developing ventures including Vivanaut, ShoddySock