Dionne Darling

VP of Brand Partnerships

The Architect’s Newspaper h

Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over five years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Chicago territories.

Dionne has over 25 years of direct B2B sales and business development experience. Dionne holds an Associate Degree from El Centro Junior College at Dallas, Texas.

Olenka Jackson

Co-Founder and CEO

Moetsi

Moetsi operates Spatial Fields™, a construction-ready lighting controls system that can do so much more. Once Spatial Fields™ is installed for lighting control, the property manager can unlock its premium feature of generating real-time robust spatial data, which powers a suite of space-performance apps on the Spatial Fields™ AppStore.

Mike Martino

Founding Principal

CTRL Building Systems

Mike started his lighting career reverse-commuting from a shoebox apartment in Manhattan to Philips Lighting in Somerset, NJ after receiving a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Boston University in 2012. Part of the first generation of lighting professionals who would be taught about LED before incandescent technology, and faced immediately with the challenges of disrupting a century-old business, Mike learned how to help people embrace change by understanding their problems and taking ownership over providing the solution.

Prior to co-founding City Lighting, Mike served as Vice President of Specification Sales for The Lighting Group where he first began servicing New York’s great design community and delivering Lighting & Controls solutions for the world’s largest corporations and real estate developers who call this city home.

Ryan Camardo

Account Manager

ClientPay

Sofia Jaramillo

Account Executive

Microsol Resources

Sofia joined Microsol Resources in 2018 as an Account Executive to support all our AEC clients across the US with Rhino, V-Ray and Enscape software. She is also an Account Executive for Autodesk products. Born and raised in Colombia. In 2016, she moved to New York and has found a new passion within the field of design and construction.

Craig Macdonald

Senior Account Executive

OpenAsset

Craig is a senior Sales Executive with 22 years of software sales experience who has been with OpenAsset since 2008. Craig is based in London but is never happier than when on the road introducing OpenAsset to future AEC clients.

Colin Booth

Colin is the Managing Director at Placetailor, a Boston-based, integrated development/ design/ build/ R&D cooperative. He has over 20 years of experience in all scales of design and planning, driving innovative and sustainable strategies within complex, collaborative projects. Colin’s previous positions included Associate Architect and Head of Sustainability at Sasaki, and President of the Sasaki Foundation. Colin has taught and lectured at all Boston area design schools, as well as Zhuhai and Guangzhou, China.

Katie Faulkner, FAIA

Director

PT-TECH

Katie Faulkner is currently a director at PT-Tech, a division of Placetailor in Boston. She is also the founder of WestFaulkner, an office with a mission for sustainable design that is beautiful, contextual, and environmentally responsible. Underpinning all projects is the sentiment that design architecture should be accessible to everyone, regardless of budget. All endeavors seek to reconcile the ecological and social impacts of planning and construction work, with a net positive outcome.

Katie has been engaged for over twenty-five years with spaces and buildings for education, working, living, and healthcare. Her work is motivated by an interest in sustainable, modular construction, with ambition to reduce risk and improve cost control. Previously she was a Vice President of Design for Katerra, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype. For nearly a decade prior, she was a founding partner of the firm NADAAA, where her projects included the Daniels Building at University of Toronto, RISD’s North Hall, and the R+D Center at the Beaver School. She has been recognized with notable awards, including the 2014 Holcim Award, an AIA COTE Award, and other design industry accolades. Before NADAAA, Katie was an Associate Principal at Shepley Bulfinch. In 2017 she received the Women in Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects. In 2020 she was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

Katie is an adjunct faculty member at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Nicole Mater, AIA

Project Architect

HOK

Nicole Mater is a Project Designer and practicing architect at HOK. She resolves intricate problems with a data-driven analytical approach, providing clarity and inspiring confidence throughout the design process. Using the power of parametric design, she orchestrates fluctuating design elements in real-time. A champion for regenerative design, Nicole strategically guides projects to sustainable solutions that maximize the Triple Bottom Line.

John Haymaker

Director of Research

Perkins&Will

As Perkins&Will’s Director of Research, John helps to bridge research and academics with the global firm’s practice by collaborating with architects, urban designers, and planners—putting him at the forefront of emerging knowledge and technology in the AEC industry. He holds multiple degrees in architecture, design and computation, and civil and environmental engineering. However, he fell in love with architecture while taking a gap year skiing in Aspen and supporting himself by working on a construction site.

Adam Chernick

Director of Interactive Visualization

SHoP Architects

As Director of Interactive Visualization, Chernick leads research and development for AR/VR and adjacent emerging technology at SHoP Architects. Previously Chernick led BIM strategy and coordination on several large projects including the GroupM Global Headquarters, in World Trade Center 3. His years on the design technology and documentation side of AEC has given him a unique perspective to focus efforts within AR/VR and software development. He has designed, built and launched apps for both iOS and Android, and is a frequent speaker on the implications of AR/VR in AEC. His applications with SHoP Architects have been nominated for awards, featured in museums, and written about in publications including the New York Times.

Dionne Darling

VP of Brand Partnerships

The Architect’s Newspaper h

Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over five years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Chicago territories.

Dionne has over 25 years of direct B2B sales and business development experience. Dionne holds an Associate Degree from El Centro Junior College at Dallas, Texas.