LEGO Certified Professional

A LEGO Certified Professional is a LEGO brick artist who, while not employed by LEGO, is recognized by LEGO, authorized to use the LEGO logo in their advertising, and, for an annual enrollment fee, is able to purchase large quantities of bricks from LEGO at a bulk rate.

LEGO takes applications annually, but at present has only certified 6 professionals:

• Nathan Sawaya
• Rene Hoffmeister
• Sean Kenney(the first LEGO certified Professional)
• Nicholas Foo
• Dan Parker
• Robin Sather

References

• The LEGO Company's official page describing the program
• Sean Kenney's description of the program on his website