Ben Mauro is a senior concept designer and production designer working in the entertainment industry, he studied industrial design and entertainment design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. After college, he relocated to Wellington, New Zealand where he worked at Weta Workshop from 2009- 2013, over that time he contributed to a vast array of Film, Television and Videogame projects such as ‘The Hobbit Trilogy’ and ‘Elysium’ among many others. 

Most recently he worked as a Senior Concept Designer and Art Director on Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a thousand planets" and is currently working as an independent freelance concept designer where he continues to offer his design services to clients around the world including NASA, Lexus, Boston Dynamics, 20th Century Fox, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, MPC, Legendary Pictures, Weta Workshop, Magic Leap, LucasFilm, Rhythm & Hues, Activision, EuropaCorp, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Insomniac Games, Design Studio Press, SyFy and Discovery Channel.