Rich Byrne

Rich Byrne is a Senior Industrial Designer and the Founder of Goplay, a premium toy startup based in Cleveland, Ohio. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati's nationally ranked DAAP program, Rich brings over 12 years of product design experience across corporate, agency, and startup environments. In his current role as Industrial Design Lead at Avient, Rich has been a key driver in securing $10-15M in annual new business by positioning industrial design as a strategic differentiator — leading projects from concept through Class-A surfacing, manufacturing reviews, and commercialization. As the founder of Goplay, Rich applied that same rigor to a passion project nearly a decade in the making: the Goplay Roadster, a precision-machined maple toy car with real steel bearings, assembled...