Design from passion. Driving positive change.

Brett is Design Director at Returnr & BeetBox, and works freelance under the brand MMTH. Brett was a co-founder of zero-waste grocery delivery business Returnr Marketplace, and is a former Associate Principal at Cobalt Design, and a few years ago he pulled together a group of mates to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis.

As Returnr & BeetBox’s founding Design Director, Brett has been a key driver of the team aiming to eliminate single-use-packaging waste with engaging products and revolutionary systems. Brett employs design to drive behaviour change. Ultimately achieving positive social impacts and strategic business outcomes.

Brett’s professional design journey started at a small company designing & manufacturing hospital beds. Then as the first Associate Principal at Cobalt Design, Brett instigated the development of a design thinking practice within the business, designed a world first scientific instrument, worked on detailed DFM of the first Melbourne designed & manufactured tram, and lead the design of the innovative Food Justice Truck that fed asylum seekers with a 75% subsidy & won the highest Victorian design award in 2015.

A graduate of Monash University in Industrial Design & Mechanical Engineering, and a graduate of Melbourne Business School’s MBA program, Brett is a member of the Design Institute of Australia & Engineers Australia.

Brett lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and three children.