Alain Sylvain

Alain is a brand and innovation consultant who established Sylvain Labs to guide companies through complex business challenges and brand opportunities through applied imagination, science and whimsy. This approach has led Sylvain Labs to lasting and growing results for clients including Airbnb, Google, Spotify, Samsung, GM, AB InBev, Pepsico, Patagonia, and others. In addition to Sylvain Labs, Alain is a dedicated partner of several investment ventures, including Master + Dynamic and So Choice Softworks. An advocate of side hustles, his endless curiosity has led him into film, where he has served as the executive producer of short documentaries, Instafame and Some Kind of Quest. Alain frequently shares his perspective on innovation, culture, and brands through lectures and by mentoring future talent, and is a current board member of the VCU Brandcenter.