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ON THE MOVE WARE MALCOMB PROMOTES RADWAN MADANI TO VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS Ware Malcomb , an award-winning international design firm, announced Radwan Madani has been promoted to vice president, operations. In this new role, Madani will be responsible for firmwide operations, mentorship and coaching of regional operations leaders, oversight of Ware Malcomb’s production studios and will be a member of the executive team. Madani joined Ware Malcomb in July 2001 in the firm’s Irvine, California-based headquarters. In 2007, he relocated to the firm’s Los Angeles office focusing on operations and business development and was promoted to Studio Manager. Madani has been responsible for managing and growing the Los Angeles office since 2008, with promotions to regional manager in 2010, regional director in 2012, and principal in 2015. As vice president, operations, Madani oversees the Los Angeles office, growth of building measurement services, and is a member of Ware Malcomb’s national architectural leadership group. Leveraging more than 20 years of architectural design expertise, Madani has helped position Ware Malcomb as a thought leader in creative office design. While overseeing all projects for the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley markets, his team has been instrumental in the transformation and revitalization of the El Segundo market and Downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District, with many notable projects completed. Under Madani’s leadership, the Los Angeles office has been recognized with multiple project awards by the LA Business Council, Los Angeles Business Journal and the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.

“Radwan has consistently achieved strong business metrics for the LA office each year and has been key to supporting other Ware Malcomb offices in their operational strategies and results,” said Kenneth Wink, CEO of Ware Malcomb. “His hard work, dedication to the firm and strategic leadership will position him for success in this well-deserved promotion.” Madani graduated from the University of Aleppo in Syria with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, and received his U.S. citizenship in 2011. He is a Licensed Architect in the State of California, a LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, AIA member, and a 2009- 2010 graduate of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Association’s Young Professional Group. Established in 1972, Ware Malcomb is a contemporary and expanding full service design firm providing professional architecture, planning, interior design, civil engineering, branding and building measurement services to corporate, commercial/residential developer and public/institutional clients throughout the world. With office locations throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, Dewberry specializes in the design of commercial office, corporate, industrial, science and technology, healthcare, retail, auto, public/institutional facilities and renovation projects. Ware Malcomb is recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company and a Hot Firm by Zweig Group. The firm is also ranked among the top 15 architecture/engineering firms in Engineering News-Record ’s Top 500 Design Firms and the top 25 interior design firms in Interior Design magazine’s Top 100 Giants.

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STEPHANIE WARINO, from page 1 in flattened growth curves for our firm, as well as limitations in our markets, disciplines, and geographies. Are we in a red ocean because we are possibly limiting ourselves based on our criteria – what we define as non-negotiables to our industry? There is a blue ocean of talent out there that may not quite fit the mold we have established. We aren’t tapping into it. Don’t fix the talent – fix the mold. Or better yet, get rid of the mold. You don’t need it. Creating this blue ocean for recruitment and retention – again, the No. 1 problem most firms have in the AEC industry – is what Zweig Group’s ElevateHer is bringing awareness to – elevating the industry, by elevating the employee experience. This is a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we view recruitment and retention, and how we not only shape the employee experience, but how we will shape something equally and critically important – our client experience. All it takes is a little creativity, a willingness to look at a different perspective, and, objectively, very little risk. It starts by reimagining hiring practices, and it may require modification to human resources practices, creativity and a little leap of faith with regard to benefits packages for nontraditional employees, modification to the way we evaluate our financial performance, and many other implications. But for the bold, the decisive, the pioneers, it ends in a blue ocean. STEPHANIE WARINO is a strategic planning advisor with Zweig Group. Contact her at swarino@ zweiggroup.com.

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