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#HOTFIRM2015 Keynote speakers at Zweig Group’s 2015 Hot Firm and A/E Awards Conference include: MARK ZWEIG Best known as the leading expert in management for the architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental industry, Zweig has more than three decades of experience as a student of the industry and knows architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms inside-and-out. NOAH ECKHOUSE The vice president of portfolio development for Bentley Systems has more than 25 years of experience in emerging technology. Eckhouse has worked on projects ranging from GPS-guided golf carts to America’s Cup sailboats to e-commerce optimization. LANGDON MORRIS Since 2001, Morris has led the innovation consulting practice of InnovationLabs LLC , where is a senior partner and co-founder. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities on every continent.

CHRIS DOERSCHLAG After taking the leadership role at WD in 1996, Doerschlag focused the company on architecture and engineering services for national multi- unit retail. Over the next decade, he extended WD’s reach by pursuing acquisitions and organic growth, bringing consumer research, branding, digital and operations expertise in-house. JOHN ZWEIG If anyone has an eye for spotting excellence, it’s John Zweig. He’s overseen more than 50 companies for the world’s largest advertising and marketing services organization, WPP ; he’s been pivotal in building, merging, buying, and selling firms; he’s spent 30 years observing what makes organizations great globally. JOHN ‘OZZIE’ NELSON JR. An accomplished global business leader with demonstrated commitment to the design industry, the chairman and CEO of NELSON Worldwide Inc. has guided the firm to unprecedented growth to become the No. 9 largest overall design firm and No. 5 largest provider of design and design-related services to corporate America.

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recruitment and staff development, be- lieves that this new accolade will enable GATE to attract new clients and maintain current relationships and will shine a new spotlight on all the hard work and dedi- cation GATE has accomplished over the years. “The camaraderie and team spirit that GATE has makes me want to come to work in the morning. Everyone is willing to help each other and share information.” He adds that staff not only dem- onstrates excellence, but they practice what they preach by delivering high-quality work at all times. The new Hot Firm award will assist them with attracting new clients and cultivate current relationships. “Receiving this award has most definitely been an encouragement that we are doing something right and making some valu- able strides where it counts. We recognize that we will never truly ‘arrive,’ but this award allows us to celebrate a remarkable milestone in the GATE journey. In the fu- ture, this will help us to continue to cel- ebrate our progress and improve on our achievements as a team. It’s a dream be- coming reality,” Gibson says.

easy company to work with that is high- ly responsive to the needs of our indus- try and one which is recognized as a tech- nical leader in supporting upstream proj- ects from design through to commission- ing and operation.” Lindsay Anderson, a former engineer at GATE who is now its marketing director, says that she has been with the firm for a little more than five years. She says that the first things that keeps her there is the family atmosphere, but that’s not all. “The camaraderie and team spirit that GATE has makes me want to come to work in the morning,” she says. “Every- one is willing to help each other and share information.” Another important aspect for Anderson is the ability for cross training. “This allows you to become a better engi- neer and less likely to get stuck in a silo or niche discipline, where you only know one thing or you are only good at one thing. Cross-training allows you to expe- rience other facets of the industry that you would not normally get to experience. In turn, you become a well-rounded engi- neer,” she says. GATE also affords employ- ees the opportunity to explore different career paths so that we can grow into new roles within the company as it expands.” WHAT’S NEXT FOR GATE? Michael Valenzuela,

GATE, AT A GLANCE Founded in 2000, GATE focuses on the provision of engineering and project management services, concentrating on deepwater upstream oil and gas. Over the past 15 years, GATE has expanded to 250 employees and has acquired Viking Engineering L.C. and GPS Inc., formerly known as Champlain Group. ❚ ❚ 2013: No. 1 – Cardno USA Inc., No. 2 – Surveying and Mapping Inc., No. 3 – SfL+a Architects ❚ ❚ 2014: No. 1 – WSP Global Inc., No. 2 – Surveying and Mapping LLC, No. 3 (tie) – Landpoint and GATE Inc. Since 2009, firms topping the Zweig Group Hot Firm List have included: ❚ ❚ 2009: No. 1 – Hill International Inc., No. 2 – Stantec Consulting Inc., No. 3 – WSP Group (USA) ❚ ❚ 2010: No. 1 – Fentress Architects, No. 2 – GENIVAR, No. 3 – Trow Global ❚ ❚ 2011: No. 1 – Cardno USA Inc., No. 2 – exp Global Inc., No. 3 – HAKS Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors P.C. ❚ ❚ 2012: No. 1 – Cardno USA Inc., No. 2 – exp Global Inc., No. 3 – Surveying and Mapping Inc.

THE ZWEIG LETTER AUGUST 3, 2015, ISSUE 1114

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