a:26:{s:9:"weblog_id";s:1:"4";s:8:"entry_id";s:0:"";s:6:"sticky";s:0:"";s:14:"allow_comments";s:1:"n";s:16:"allow_trackbacks";s:1:"n";s:10:"entry_date";s:19:"2009-01-08 10:08 PM";s:15:"expiration_date";s:0:"";s:23:"comment_expiration_date";s:0:"";s:8:"category";a:2:{i:0;s:1:"4";i:1;s:2:"34";}s:9:"author_id";s:1:"2";s:6:"status";s:4:"open";s:14:"trackback_urls";s:0:"";s:18:"versioning_enabled";s:1:"y";s:5:"title";s:43:"New Leadership at HOK’s St. Louis Office ";s:9:"url_title";s:38:"new_leadership_at_hoks_st_louis_office";s:6:"submit";s:6:"Submit";s:11:"field_id_26";s:42:"New Leadership at HOK’s St. Louis Office";s:11:"field_ft_26";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_31";s:0:"";s:11:"field_id_44";s:98:"St. Louis-based HOK is ushering in the new year with a change in leadership in its downtown office";s:11:"field_ft_44";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_28";s:29:"HOK, Leadership, Davis, Nolan";s:11:"field_ft_28";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_29";s:7876:"<p><a href=\"http://www.hok.com\">St. Louis-based HOK</a> is ushering in the new year with a change in leadership in its downtown office. Rebecca Nolan, Associate AIA, IIDA, LEED AP, has been named senior vice president and managing principal for the St. Louis office, succeeding Clark Davis, FAIA, LEED AP, who is taking on an expanded firm-wide leadership role for HOK&rsquo;s worldwide practice.&nbsp; Davis will continue to be based in St. Louis where he is an active community leader serving several organizations.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Since 2007, we have been engaged in a national search for a new managing principal for the St. Louis office,&rdquo; said Davis. &ldquo;Rebecca brings a sterling national reputation with the right mix of personal leadership skills and experience in a large firm.&nbsp; She not only knows the market place and the architectural/engineering industry quite well, but also knows St. Louis having raised her family here for seven years.&rdquo; <br /><br />Nolan will team with Steve Evans, Ripley Rasmus and Kyle St. Peter in leading the St. Louis office and will also be part of the North Central Region management committee, which manages HOK&rsquo;s practice in 17 states. She will also join the HOK Management Board, one of four &ldquo;core boards&rdquo; of leaders in the firm&rsquo;s worldwide practice.<br /><br />&ldquo;Rebecca&rsquo;s new leadership role will free me up to focus on firm wide leadership to advance HOK&rsquo;s practices and practice leaders worldwide and nurture relationships with key global clients.&rdquo; said Davis, who is a member of HOK&rsquo;s six-person global executive committee.&nbsp; Davis said HOK has just completed its best year ever with revenue totaling more than $700 million in 2008.&nbsp; It has 26 offices worldwide and employs more than 2,300, including 260 in St. Louis.&nbsp; <br /><br />A one-time St. Louis resident, Nolan previously served as senior vice president and managing director of the Minneapolis office of SmithGroup &ndash; a national architecture, engineering, interiors and planning firm.&nbsp; She launched the Minneapolis office in 2004 where her clients included CB Richard Ellis, CBREI and Hines, two real estate firms; Microsoft; the transportation engineering and planning firm Parsons Brinckerhoff; law firm Bowman and Brooke, LLP; insurer UCare Minnesota; and the University of Minnesota.<br /><br />During her tenure at SmithGroup, Nolan also led its California practice, sat on its board of directors and executive committee, was a leader in its national workplace practice and led the formation of the firm-wide Leadership Development Program and Diversity initiatives.&nbsp; From 1986-1993, she was a principal and studio leader in the St. Louis office of Stone Marraccini Patterson (SMP), which merged with SmithGroup in 1998. <br /><br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;m delighted to be returning to St. Louis to join the incredible collaborative culture that defines HOK,&rdquo; said Nolan. &ldquo;There is a seamless transfer of knowledge, leveraging HOK&rsquo;s expertise and talents worldwide and its broad experience in design that benefits projects large and small.&nbsp; I love building and nurturing client relationships.&nbsp;&nbsp; At HOK, it is practiced with a passion.&rdquo; <br /><br />Nolan is a native of Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in interior design.&nbsp; She remains active in multiple organizations including the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), where she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by its Northland Chapter, CoreNet, and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). She is also an associate member of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and recently served as a member of the editorial advisory board of Contract, a national interior design trade journal. <br /><br />Nolan&rsquo;s husband, Michael, a former SmithGroup workplace studio leader, will also join HOK in a senior role with the firm&rsquo;s Interiors Group. <br /><br />A fourth-generation St. Louisan, Clark Davis has led HOK&rsquo;s 250-employee North Central Region since 1998, serving as its managing principal and vice chairman of the entire firm. He joined HOK in 1988, was named to the St. Louis office management committee in 1993, became chief administrative officer in 1998 and joined its board of directors in 1999.&nbsp; Davis was named a 2008 &ldquo;Entrepreneur of the Year&rdquo; in the Central Midwest Region by Ernst and Young.&nbsp; <br /><br /><img class=\"image-left\" height=\"293\" src=\"/images/uploads/Clark_Davis_environmental.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"266\" />Under Davis&rsquo; leadership, HOK grew its St. Louis office and developed a regional practice that now includes a 100-person Chicago office and a newly opened Denver location. Working with the firm&rsquo;s six-person global executive team, he has played an instrumental leadership role in strengthening HOK&rsquo;s operations and financial performance, contributing to HOK&rsquo;s back to back record years of revenue, topping $637 million 2007 and eclipsing that mark with more than $700 million in 2008.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /></p>
<h4>Clark Davis is taking on an expanded firm-wide leadership role for HOK</h4>
<p>Through Davis&rsquo; leadership, HOK also expanded into emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and India, created new specialty practices such as Construction Services, and strengthened its industry-leadership in sustainable design and Building Information Modeling.&nbsp; <br /><br />Davis will remain active in the St. Louis community through his leadership efforts with a number of organizations.&nbsp; He is currently board chair of Partnership for Downtown St. Louis and Edgewood Children&rsquo;s Center.&nbsp; He is also an active leader in the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA), the Whitaker Foundation, the St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC). He has also served Confluence St. Louis, the United Way of Greater St. Louis, Focus St. Louis, Junior Achievement (JA) of Mississippi Valley and the Saint Louis Art Museum. <br /><br />Davis has also been a leader in the architectural profession.&nbsp; He represents HOK in the AIA Large Firm Roundtable, which brings together leaders of large architectural/engineering firms in the U.S. to discuss trends and advance best practices.&nbsp; He was named to the AIA College of Fellows in 2000 and was president of AIA\'s St. Louis Chapter in 1988 and president of AIA Missouri in 1998.&nbsp; <br /><br />A licensed architect in several states, Davis has led such region-shaping projects as the Boeing Leadership Center and Washington University School of Medicine&rsquo;s Farrell Learning &amp; Teaching Center in St. Louis. Outside St. Louis, his projects have included facilities for Eli Lilly in Indianapolis; Sun Microsystems in Broomfield, Col.; and the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.<br /><br />Davis received his bachelor&rsquo;s degree in environmental design from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design where he later earned the Distinguished Alumnus Award.&nbsp; He earned a master of architecture from the University of Michigan. <br /><br />HOK is a global architectural firm that specializes in planning, design and delivery solutions for buildings and communities. Through its collaborative network of 26 offices worldwide, the firm serves diverse clients within the corporate, commercial, public and institutional markets. HOK is committed to developing resources and expertise to help lead the world toward sustainable communities and building environments.&nbsp; Founded in 1955, the firm&rsquo;s expertise includes architecture, engineering, interiors, plan ning, lighting, graphics, facilities planning and assessment, and construction services.&nbsp; .</p>";s:10:"category_0";s:1:"4";s:10:"category_1";s:2:"34";}