Industry pro merges design and high technology
Scott Koehler is an accomplished kitchen designer, with over 29 years of experience in business. And he’s also a successful technologist. Beginning in the 1980s, Koehler was an early adopter of AutoCAD using a 10 megabyte IBM PC. In fact, he cites the advent of the PC as one of two major “inflection points” in his career.
The second inflection point came in 2010 when he left kitchen design completely to work on Box.com, which was a Silicon Valley tech startup offering cloud computing to Fortune 500 firms. He was an investor and was active in C-suite sales activity for the company.
When that firm failed to monetize, Koehler took up his design pencil (virtual) and opened Dream Kitchen Builders near Greensboro, NC, with a focus on running his company almost entirely on readily available mobile apps for business.
“Every possible piece of what I do as a kitchen designer is done on a mobile app,” says Koehler. For the past three years he’s been a top speaker at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show, focusing on using technology in kitchen design.
