Winner of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Alastair Graham-Bryce "Imagineering" Award (2020), Jude Pullen is one of the eight featured inventors in BBC Two's Big Life Fix documentary series that helps people with disabilities through technology and design.

With a passion for bridging seemingly disparate disciplines, Jude thrives on projects with high risk, uncertainty and pressure; drawing from global networks and experiences to deliver award-winning work.

He appears regularly in design conferences, including RI (Royal Institute), TEDx at London’s Imperial College, Beyond Tellerand, and CMC Markets. During the pandemic, he worked with Bangor University, Wales to create an 8-part series of Lockdown Lectures, in just 2 weeks. His talk on neurodiversity with CMC Markets was praised by the client as “an exceptional event that will be remembered for a long time”. He has also served as the curator for Protolabs' Design x Sustainability training event, working closely with leading experts from a diverse range of disciplines to bring insights on sustainability, a subject close to his heart. In 2024, he joined the Royal College of Art as the Technologist in Residence of its Ecological Citizen[s] project funded by UKRI's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

As Head of R&D and Technology (2013-17) at London start-up Sugru, he has been praised for his outstanding ability to apply design thinking to his management approach, while leading groundbreaking new patented ‘child-safe’ formulations. As a Senior Manager (Tech Scout & Direction Designer) at LEGO, he travelled the world looking for opportunities to expand play for kids (and big kids).

His clients include RS Group, Pentagram, IKEA, LEGO Group, LEGO Ventures, Innovolo, ProtoLabs, Materials Consultant, Wazoku, Bare Conductive, Raspberry Pi, Mayku, Imperial College, Bangor University, Design & Technology Association UK, Children in Need,, Raspberry Pi, - and featured on Channel 4's 'David Jason's The Great British Inventions' (2019) and BBC Two's "The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve" (2015-18). In 2022, he collaborated with Primary Engineer to take a challenging, left-of-field brief on a highly technical subject and create elegant, simple solutions that made it exciting to primary school children. The project brought together his unique combination of physical prototyping expertise, design thinking, and ability to articulate ideas that are industrially accurate, relevant and inspiring to a new generation of innovators.

Commissioned by RS Group’s' DesignSpark at its 10th Anniversary, he created RadioGlobe to celebrate human connection around the world enabled through technology during 2020 COVID lockdown. The project has received accolades from Core77, FastCo (World Changing Ideas), The Drum (Innovative Use of Technology), and Shortys (Best Micro Influencer Strategy).

A quarter Nigerian, Jude was born and raised in rural village in Northern England. He hadn’t been on a plane until he was 23 years old, but has since [over]compensated for this with a zeal for cultural immersion by living and working in Hong Kong, Norway, California and Scotland. He currently lives in London with his wife and son, who is proud of their mixed cultural backgrounds which include Chinese, Filipino, Nigerian and Italian. They enjoy the thriving cosmopolitan offerings of London and relatively easy access to nature in equal measures. He and his family can sometimes be found in the River Lee, digging up riverbed clay, to make pots from scratch - to celebrate the origin of everyday things.