A graduate of Bentley’s MSHFID program himself, Gregg Almquist is the principal at Boston-based eXperient Interactive. The interactive visual design agency works with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms, to evaluate and create user experiences for websites, mobile applications, and other user-operated devices.

Before establishing his own company, Almquist was director of user experience at H&R Block, where he founded the firm’s User Experience team and integrated user-centered design into the development cycle. He is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association of Computing Machinery, Usability Professionals’ Association, and SIGCHI.