As Managing Director at LPA Design Studios, Laura Jeanne Andrews leads the San Diego office's interior design practice, with a primary focus on workplace and tenant improvement projects….Read More

Catharine Hughes is Director, Interior Architecture & Design at Ware Malcomb. Her experience began in 1984 and encompasses all facets of interior architecture and design including visioning, programming, space planning, design, project management, account management, as well as business development and staff management….Read More

Joining Ware Malcomb in 2001, Tiffany English has overseen, designed and managed over 5 million square feet of projects, ranging from tenant improvements to full-service build to suit projects, as well as national account management….Read More

Rebecca Bodemann is vice president of sales at Xpedient Communications, a premier provider of technology infrastructure solutions in Southern California….Read More

Melissa Stayner is a California certified engineering geologist, leading the team of engineering geologists at NOVA Services. She specializes in active fault hazard investigations, liquefaction hazard investigations, and development of schools, hospitals, high-rise buildings and large grading jobs for residential developments….Read More

Kelly Michajlenko is director of business development at GLUMAC, a sustainable engineering firm. Her focus is to identify, evaluate and ensure MEPT engineering, lighting design and commissioning business opportunities, particularly in commercial, education and healthcare sectors….Read More

Calina Ferraro brings over a decade of sustainable engineering experience in three countries and two continents to the global Integral Group team. With both building science and design engineering experience, she interacts with a broad spectrum of building professionals….Read More

By Amy Tobia

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were struggling to advance their careers in the face of underlying cultural bias and the realities of everyday life….Read More

CREW Network 2021 President Tiffany English reveals how she’s getting through the pandemic and talks about her plans this year….Read More

By Kelsi Maree Borland

The pandemic could change the idea of the first-one-in, last-one-out hard work mentality of the office. Office experts at a virtual CREW San Diego event poised the question of how office culture will change under a hybrid work structure….Read More

By Kelsi Maree Borland

Tackling the challenge of implicit bias is integral to improving the diversity in the commercial real estate challenges. A recent panel at a CREW San Diego event discussed the issue of implicit bias in the workplace and ways to correct it….Read More

With more than 30 years of professional experience in the fields of cultural anthropology and interior design, Viveca Bissonnette brings a breadth of experience and knowledge to her professional pursuits. As co-founder and design principal at Hollander Design Group, she leads the firm’s workplace strategy practice employing ethnography to inform design….Read More

Dominica Correia has a storied blend of successes throughout her professional, philanthropic and personal life in San Diego since her graduation from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2004. Her path begins with her early recognition as one of the youngest women to be a shareholder at Swinerton Builders Corp….Read More

Adonia Akers is a project executive at one of San Diego’s leading self-performing general contractors, DPR Construction. She focuses on preconstruction and construction services primarily within the higher education, healthcare and life sciences markets….Read More

Anne Benge is a dynamic leader who empowers the Cultura team to be bold in its creativity, fostering a culture of innovation. She challenges the status quo in search of ingenious solutions, always curious about emerging business trends and how these relate to clients….Read More

As CEO, Gita Murthy has led the RORE, Inc. from infancy to a $50 million firm. During her tenure, she has managed over 40 contracts as a prime contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers, Navy, Air Force, and other public sector clients….Read More

Katerina Milovanoska is an influential pro- ponent of shifting the mindset of the AEC industry to use datacentric Building information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC). Her perspective assists clients in turning digital architectural design models into three-dimensional reference models, containing the information and details the construction team needs to build structures while mitigating risk….Read More

Amy Tobia, NCIDQ, CCIDC, has more than 20 years of commercial interior design experience and helps lead FS Design Group. Together with owner Bre’an Fox, Tobiahas been instrumental in growing the six-person, 29-year-old firm whose clients include American Assets Trust, Emmes, Vistage, Daybreak Game Co. and more….Read More

Lisa Bittner leads business development for NOVA Services, a geotechnical engineering, materials testing and special inspection firm. Hired just three months before the pandemic hit, Bittner put her networking skills into overdrive and secured $1.2 million worth of proposals as lead consultant plus approximately 20 new subconsultant opportunities….Read More

The office market has become the most controversial asset class in commercial real estate, according to Spencer Levy, chairman of Americas research and senior economic advisor for CBRE, who recently spoke at a CREW San Diego virtual event….Read More