Mauro Porcini, Samsung Electronics’ first-ever chief design officer, sees his path leading design at some of the world’s largest companies as something close to a calling.
“It felt like faith, God, or whatever you believe in, was looking down and saying ‘Wait a second, before going after your dream, you need to prepare yourself. You need to be ready,’” Porcini says in his office at Samsung’s R&D center near Seoul’s lively Gangnam district. “I needed to get ready for probably my dream job: Being in tech, in a world where tech is about to completely change the way we live.”
