Martin Iseli was born in 1952. After completing studies in electrical engineering and industrial design, he started  his career as a freelance designer in Bern. Since 1989 he has been in charge of corporate industrial design at Ascom in Switzerland, where he and his team focus on telecommunications for Ascom and Bang & Olufson. He was a board member of SID (association of Swiss designers) from 1989-1991. He is also a guest lecturer at HTL Horw/Bern and the author of a number of publications.