Owen William Fritts is founder and president of Portland, Oregon USA based SOLIDCORE, a design and fabrication firm focused on simplicity, modernity and earth responsible practices. He speaks globally on green design and trend for educational institutions, corporations and conferences. He also teaches a unique combination of awareness, team building and creativity exploration through his earthAWARE and openMOTION workshops: an initiative that takes teams of kids or adults from ideation to sketching to physically building small structures made from organic and reclaimed materials.

Prior to starting SOLIDCORE he founded Intelligent Design, a European furniture and product import and fulfillment firm. Before that Owen worked for architecture firms Ferraro Choi and GBD, furniture companies Herman Miller and Haworth and several design oriented start-ups.