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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
EDMOND BAKOS

Principal Rockwell Group
AVE BRADLEY

VP, Design Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
KATHLEEN DAUBER

Principal HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates Principal Gettys

KARRIE DRINKHAHN

DANA KALCZAK

VP, Design Four Seasons

JENNIFER JOHANSON
PRESIDENT/CEO, EDG INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

KAP MALIK
PRINCIPAL/DESIGN DIRECTOR, GENSLER

TODD-AVERY LENAHAN

PAMELA PARSONS
VP/OPERATIONS, FORRESTPERKINS

Founder TAL Studio

MARGARET McMAHON

As a teenager growing up in San Antonio, Johanson’s interest in design began as she helped renovate rental properties owned by her pulmonologist father. A graduate of the University of Texas’ architecture program, she moved to San Francisco and helped build EDG from a threeperson firm to a 50-person international practice whose clients include Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton. Her firm’s recent commission for The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco included a new restaurant and a major makeover of the hotel’s aging lobby lounge (page 36). “It was exciting to operate in two different design modes simultaneously,” Johanson says.

In his two-plus decades with Gensler, Malik has worked on such mega-projects as the JW Marriott/Ritz-Carlton at the L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles. But he’s also had his hand in several smaller-scale boutique projects over the years, including the 164-key Shore Hotel. That locale, profiled on page 22, was originally expected to nab LEED silver certification, but wound up attaining gold status. “We knew sustainability was very important to the client,” Malik says, “so we kept our eyes open as the project continued into the construction phase for opportunities to make the hotel even greener— and it worked.”

This has been a big year thus far for Parsons: She’s joined ForrestPerkins and agreed to serve on Boutique Design’s Editorial Advisory Board. Parsons is a licensed architect, certified interior designer and LEED Accredited Professional; her career includes stints at Host Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and RTKL. Stephen Perkins, principal and co-founder of Parsons’ new employer, says she “is a seasoned professional in hotel design and construction for both domestic and international new development and renovations, and we have always valued her vision.” For those same reasons, Parsons is a welcome addition to the BD board.

VP/Managing Director Wimberly Interiors, WATG

BRENDAN McNAMARA

Senior VP, Brand Development/ Communications/Sales Hampshire Hotels & Resorts and Vikram Chatwal Hotels
JEFF ORNSTEIN

Founder/Ceo J/Brice Design International

PAMELA PARSONS

Vice PresidentFirmwide Operations ForrestPerkins
ROBERT POLACEK

Partner/Chief Creative Officer Puccini Group

BRIAN THORNTON

Principal/Owner Brian G. Thornton Designs LLC
BRAD WILSON

President Ace Hotel

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