MacLeamy Named CEO of HOK

SAN FRANCISCO-The HOK Inc. board of directors has appointed Patrick MacLeamy to the position of chief executive officer of Kansas City, Mo.-based HOK Group Inc.
Based in the San Francisco office, MacLeamy will lead the firm's future direction and vision in collaboration with HOK Group Inc. President Bill Valentine.
MacLeamy joined HOK in 1967 as a designer in the St. Louis office and relocated to San Francisco in 1970 to help establish the firm's first regional office.
After serving in leadership roles in design, project management and marketing, he was named chief administrative officer of the San Francisco office in 1983. For the past eight years, he has served as a member of the HOK executive committe - the last three years as chief operating officer.

During his HOK career, MacLeamy has overseen the establishment of several regional offices in the U.S. and Asia. Additionally, he served in leadership roles on several landmark HOK projects, including Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco (1978) and King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1983).
As CEO, MacLeamy will continue to work closely with Valentine to drive the firm toward its vision of being the world leader in innovation for the built environment.

MacLeamy earned a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He studied abroad at both Ecole des Beaux-Arts Superieure in Paris and the American Academy in Rome.

Johnson Appointed to SCS Board of Directors
SAN DIEGO-Daniel E. Johnson has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the board of directors of SCS Engineers, an environmental consulting, engineering and construction firm, which maintains offices in California and throughout the United States.

Johnson is the co-founder and principal of San Diego-based Environmental Business Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCS Engineers. The two firms merged in 2001 to expand the presence of SCS Engineers in southern California. Environmental Business Solutions now functions as SCS Engineers' principal San Diego office, working closely with the firm's regional headquarters in Long Beach.

As a member of the seven-person board of directors, Johnson assists in providing overall strategic guidance and direction for all company operations.

Smith Joins HGA San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO-Lawrence Smith has joined HGA Architects' San Francisco office as a project architect to oversee the design of the new $14.5 million Prewett Library in Antioch.

Smith's project experience includes buildings at the University of San Francisco and San Jacinto Community College, and several corporate campuses throughout Northern California.

Smith has been honored with many design awards including the San Francisco Business Times Real Estate of the Year award and the Solutia Doc Award from Dupont Antron.

Studios Promotes Clagett, Mitchell

SAN FRANCISCO-Studios Architecture has promoted Kacey Clagett, director of marketing for the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, to associate principal.
Her experience has helped the firm diversify its portfolio to include civic, university and other public-sector projects and strengthen Studios' international corporate architecture and interiors practice. She joined Studios in 2000 and has 16 years of experience with architectural and development firms.

Clagett holds degrees from Yale University, UC Santa Cruz and the University of Pennsylvania. She is active in many professional associations, including the American Institute of Architects' International Committee.

Studios also promoted Christopher Mitchell, director of the Los Angeles office, to principal. He has been with Studios since 1996. He started the Los Angeles office in 1999.

Mitchell specializes in the design of corporate, entertainment, civic and luxury retail projects. His recent projects include the de la Guerra and Ortega dining halls for UC Santa Barbara, interiors for Bloomberg Financial in Los Angeles and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Shanghai.

Mitchell was project director for a new 155,000-sq.-ft. animation studio for Warner Bros. at the $100 million reconfigured Sherman Oaks Galleria. He is completing projects for UC Santa Barbara, UCLA and Los Angeles City College.

Mitchell holds a Master of Architecture degree and First Professional degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kelso New ID of DGS

SACRAMENTO-Gov. Gray Davis recently announced the appointment of J. Clark Kelso as interim director of the California Department of General Services.
Kelso, 43, was appointed to serve as special advisor on information technology and chief information officer for the state of California last September. He will continue to serve in this capacity.

As chief information officer, he is responsible for providing leadership on information technology policy and for working collaboratively with other information technology leaders throughout state government.

Kelso will receive a salary of $71,424. His appointment does not require Senate confirmation.

Since 1994, Kelso has been the director of the Capital Center for Government Law and Policy at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law.

Davis previously appointed him chair of the California Earthquake Authority in November 2000 and confirmed his appointment as California's Acting Insurance Commissioner, a position he held from July to September 2000.

Kelso earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School and was a law clerk to Judge Anthony M. Kennedy on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.

McCarthy Adds Lloyd

NEWPORT BEACH-McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. recently hired Richard Lloyd as preconstruction director in its Southern California division.
A construction industry veteran of 25 years, Lloyd will be responsible for providing conceptual estimating, design/build management, budgeting, systems-cost analysis, guaranteed maximum pricing and hard-bid estimating.

Prior to joining McCarthy, Lloyd served as an estimator, chief estimator and project manager for a number of large construction firms in Southern California. His project experience encompasses commercial, mixed-use, hospitality and health-care/assisted living projects throughout Southern California.

Lerch Joins F&A

SAN FRANCISCO-Architectural design firm Flad & Associates recently added Ken Lerch as director of development.

Lerch's activities will focus on Flad's business in the western United States in science and technology, health-care and academic projects. He brings nearly two decades of experience to a role that will include strategic planning, corporate communications, new project identification and creating new alliances for the further development of Flad's regional presence.

Lerch was trained as an architect. He holds a Masters degree in business.
Lerch won two national awards in marketing from the Society of Marketing Professional Services. In his East Bay hometown of El Cerrito, he was recently selected by the city council as a parks and recreation commissioner.

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