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Spread across over 60 cities, our team is a global collective of urban experts in design, architecture, engineering, civil, transportation, urban geography, real estate, landscape, communications, software development and so much more. These are the people defining the cities of tomorrow.

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Rebecca Grant

Principal | Education, Buildings
Portland, OR

Rebecca Grant
#Principal | Education, Buildings# #All# #Architecture# #Education# #School# ## #K-12 Education# #School# #Education# ## #Leader# #Learning+# #School# #Education# ## #Subject Matter Expert#
Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Based in the Portland office, Rebecca is part of the Learning+ team and has specialized in educational architecture and sustainable design during her 17 years of professional practice. A leader at IBI Group for nearly a decade, she is an astute project manager and effective communicator who ensures that design intent is carried through a project from concept to construction. She deftly balances sustainability, budget, timeline, stakeholder engagement, and innovative, results-oriented design in her service to clients and community. Rebecca is a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council and an Architects-in-School Program Member with the Architectural Foundation of Oregon.  She played an integral role in the successful completion of award-winning LEED Gold projects including Parkrose Middle School Replacement, Sandy High School, and Trillium Creek Primary School. Rebecca was also involved in the design of the Snohomish Aquatic Center, a truly unique facility north of Seattle.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Adam Haimour

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Civil Engineering
Calgary, AB

Adam Haimour
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Civil Engineering# #All# #Civil Engineering# #Civil Infrastructure# ## #Development Engineering# #Engineering# #Indigenous Engagement and Relations# #Leader# #Sustainability & Environmental Management# #Green# ##
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Adam Haimour is an Associate Director and Practice Lead of the Civil Engineering Group with IBI Group. He is a professional engineer registered in Alberta, BC and overseas with over 15 years of experience in municipal/civil engineering and land development projects in both greenfield and retrofit/redevelopment settings. He has completed a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Engineering degree (M.Eng.) at the University of Calgary. Mr. Haimour has worked on numerous projects throughout Western Canada for various municipalities, districts, hamlets, private developers and First Nations. He specializes in multi-disciplinary team management, concept/schematic design development, budget management, preliminary/detailed engineering design, urban/rural road design, water/wastewater engineering, transportation engineering, tender/contract documents, contract administration, and construction management. He has managed large-scale engineering and land development projects for both the public and private sector.
#North America#
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Zain Ali

Associate Director | Practice Lead, Transportation Engineering
Dubai, UAE

Zain Ali
#Associate Director | Practice Lead, Transportation Engineering# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Airports# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Brownfield Development# #Development Engineering# ## #Bus Rapid Transit# #Transportation# #BRT# ## #Engineering# #Leader# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Mobility+# #Transportation# ## #Multi-Modal Transportation# #Transportation# ## #Parking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Project / Programme Management# #Public Outreach# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Terminals# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# ## #Traffic Engineering# #Transportation# #Traffic Management# ## #Traffic Management# #Transportation# ## #Transit Oriented Development# #TOD# ## #Transit Planning# #Transportation# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Engineering# #Transportation# ## #Traveller Information# #Transportation# #511# #ATIS# #Advanced Traveller Information System# ##
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zain-ali-31116121/
Zain Ali has over ten years of experience specializing in the areas transportation planning, traffic engineering, safety and geometric design combined with extensive experience in urban and landscape planning. He has managed and led a wide variety of long-range and multi-modal transportation projects related to public transit planning, transportation master planning, travel demand modelling, traffic simulation modelling, transportation assessments and parking, both in Canada and in the Middle East. Zain brings a keen eye for devising ‘balanced’ transportation solution considering transportation-land use integration to create attractive, liveable and sustainable built-environments. Being an avid supporter of active transportation modes, Zain is actively involved in a wide-range of multi-modal mega development projects promoting context-sensitive design solutions across the Middle East region. Zain is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada as well as in UAE and a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
#Middle East#
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Jorge Arevalo

Associate | Manager, Electrical Engineering
Toronto West, ON

Jorge Arevalo
#Associate | Manager, Electrical Engineering# #All# #Electrical Engineering# #Engineering# #Industrial# #Light Rail Transit# #Transportation# #LRT# ## #Retail# #Commercial# ## #Terminals# #Transportation# #Transit Facilities# ## #Transit Facilities# #Transportation# ## #Transportation#
Toronto West, Ontario, Canada
Jorge Arevalo has 25 years of experience in the aerospace and electrical consulting industries and has been involved in electrical specifications, schematic and detail design for all electrical building systems for commercial, industrial and government buildings. He develops projects with accuracy, efficiency and within time limits and ever responsive to client needs, Jorge is able to adjust design and find solutions to fit within budget constraints. For the last few years Jorge has been leading IBI Group’s electrical teams in the transit field including work at multiple TTC stations, Metrolinx layovers at Mimico and Lewis Road and the Metrolinx James Station in Hamilton. Most recently Jorge has led a ten-man electrical team for four stations on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project.
#North America#
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Vasilis Gaitanidis

Associate | Manager, Software Development
Athens, Greece

Vasilis Gaitanidis
#Associate | Manager, Software Development# #All# #Civic & Government# #Institution# ## #Design Technology# #Mobile Technology# #Transportation# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Research & Development# #Smart Cities# #Software as a Service# #SaaS# ## #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ##
Athens, Greece, Europe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasilis-gaitanidis-b8533251/
Vasilis has more than 35 years of experience in system and software engineering for enterprise and real-time systems. As an Airforce officer, he led the team that designed and developed the national part of the Hellenic Airforce’s Command & Control system (ACCS). Later, after entering the private sector, he worked as Chief software engineer and project manager for companies involved in the implementation of large-scale ICT projects addressing commercial, government and defence/security sectors. In 2016, Vasilis (as Chief Designer & Project Manager) successfully designed, implemented and delivered a high-end extensive security system with MIL-STD requirements on a military airfield in Greece, integrating a plethora of diverse devices and subsystems to a single Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) system with remarkable Command & Control features. He has, extensive hands-on experience in many programming languages and is actively exercising software development to this date.
#Europe#
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Abhishek Chandrasekaran

Associate | Architectural Designer
Toronto, ON

Abhishek Chandrasekaran
#Associate | Architectural Designer# #All# #Architecture# #BIM & 3D Visualization# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Living+# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ##
Toronto, Ontario,
Abhishek is a career-driven Architect with 11+ years’ experience on many large-scale architectural and master planning projects. He started his IBI Group journey at the Dubai office in early 2014 as part of the Master planning team. He has contributed towards many large-scale industrial projects in Saudi Arabia with an emphasis on creating a modern and attractive employment / retail destination. In 2018, he chose to go back to his architecture roots and has been part of the high-rise residential team in the Toronto Office. He specializes in concept and schematic design. Some of the notable projects he was involved in are 8 Elm, Olive Residences, North Core, Azura and 8 Wellesley condos in Toronto. Abhishek is currently managing several mid & high-rise mixed-use projects in Toronto and surrounding areas.
#North America#
Octavio Jimenez

Associate | Manager, Transportation Planning
Mexico City, Mexico

Octavio Jimenez
#Associate | Manager, Transportation Planning# #All# #Spanish Regional# #Systems# #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ##
Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America
Octavio Jiminez is a Civil Engineer from the Technological Institute of Durango, Mexico. Octavio also holds a Masters Degree in Transportation Systems from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He has more than six years of experience related to transportation modeling topics and has developed demand models for urban highways in different countries, as well as micro-level models for modal transfer stations and development of road impact studies for large developments. In matters related to regional mobility plans, Octavio has collaborated in the diagnosis and development of urban strategies and their application in different time frames for the Panama City PIMUS. In relation to large-scale urban projects, Octavio has participated in mobility studies for CETRAM Chapultepec, which includes not only the impact that will result in the restructuring of CETRAM itself but also analyzes the road impact to be had in the area, caused by future large-scale developments, as well as the relevant infrastructure changes.
#Latin America#
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Neena Soans

Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems
Pompano Beach, FL

Neena Soans
#Director | Sr. Practice Lead, Intelligent Systems# #All# #Information & Communications Technology# #ICT# ## #Leader# #Office Lead# #Project / Programme Management# #Revenue / Tolling# #Transportation# ## #Subject Matter Expert# #Systems# #Systems Engineering# #Systems# ## #Systems Integration# #Systems# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #Transportation#
Pompano Beach, Florida, United States of America
Neena Soans PMP has 15 years of systems and software engineering experience and has been exposed to all facets of the specification, design and implementation of various systems and applications during that timeframe. This includes ITS, Tolling Systems, Communications Systems, Intelligent Building Technology Systems and Security Systems. Neena has extensive experience with the development of functional and performance specifications, and the development, maintenance and support of complex software systems.
#North America# #Southeast#
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Zohra Mutabanna

Associate | General Manager
New Delhi, India

Zohra Mutabanna
#Associate | General Manager# #Active Transportation# #Transportation# ## #All# #Bridges, Roads & Highways# #Transportation# ## #Office Lead# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Transit Planning# #Transportation# ## #Transit Technology# #Transportation# #ITS# #Intelligent Transportation Systems# ## #Transportation# #Transportation Planning# #Transportation# ##
New Delhi, India, Asia
Zohra Mutabanna is a city and transportation planner, and urban designer with a wide range of experience in transportation planning, architecture, and urban design through projects in the US and India. Zohra has worked on projects involving transit oriented development, non-motorized transportation planning, streetscape design, transit service planning, microsimulation modeling and transit technologies.She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in City Planning and a concentrated focus in transportation planning and urban design.
#Asia#
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Mac Gong

Associate | Manager, Placemaking
Vancouver, BC

Mac Gong
#Associate | Manager, Placemaking# #All# #Architecture# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Policy & Design Guidelines# #Project / Programme Management# #Research & Development# #Residential#
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mac Gong is a senior urban designer and a registered architect in China coordinating design work between our residential high-rise and placemaking practices. He specializes in large mixed-use and business/industrial master plans and design guidelines which require a deep understanding of how buildings and cities work. He has worked on complex assignments in Canada, China, and the Middle East, and has dozens of private development rezoning projects in the Lower Mainland to his credit. As a bridge between different disciplines, Mac is well-attuned to producing building massing schemes that fit urban policy, maximize developer expectations, ensure circulation access, and produce high-quality integration to the broader urban realm.
#North America#
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Roberto Jenkins

Associate Principal | Mixed-Use, Buildings
Los Angeles, CA

Roberto Jenkins
#Associate Principal | Mixed-Use, Buildings# #All# #Architecture# #BIM & 3D Visualization# #Design Technology# #High Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Land Use Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Living+# #Residential# ## #Low Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Mid Rise Residential# #Residential# ## #Mixed Use# #Commercial# ## #Mobility Hub# #Transportation# ## #Office# #Commercial# ## #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# #Placemaking# ## #Project / Programme Management# #Research & Development# #Residential# #Retail# #Commercial# ##
Los Angeles, California, United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-jenkins-18298250/
Roberto Jenkins specializes in the design and development of mixed-use masterplanning and redevelopment projects, with a particular focus on large, transit-oriented development sites along the US/Canada West coast. Roberto is active in several Bay Area TOD projects, and led the masterplanning and concept architecture of two adjoining phases in the Candlestick Point redevelopment, totaling over 2,000 residential units in 33 acres. Roberto also led the architectural design of the approved Master Development Plan for the Los Angeles Civic Center, a holistic vision to transform that district from 9-5 local government office use into a vibrant 24/7 mixed-use urban center, activated by over three million square feet of new construction. In addition, Roberto has worked on a variety of mixed-use, residential, hospitality, and healthcare projects in the US, Canada and Central America. In conjunction with his concept design emphasis, Roberto also specializes in parametric modelling and visualization of projects.
#North America# #Pacific West#
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Ruth Loetterle

Associate, Landscape Architect
Boston, MA

Ruth Loetterle
#Associate, Landscape Architect# #All# #Green# #Higher Education# #School# #Education# ## #Landscape Architecture# #Master Planning# #Placemaking# #Planning & Urban Design# ## #Parks# #Institution# #Civic & Government# ## #Placemaking# #Secondary School# #School# #Education# #K-12 Education# ##
Boston, Massachusetts, North America
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-loetterle-5304aa11/
Ruth joined IBI Placemaking in 1980. Since that time she has worked on a variety of projects from master planning and site design of public and mixed income housing to signage design. More recently her work has focused on the master planning and site design for a variety of institutions – colleges, universities, secondary schools, neighborhood groups, nature centers, and botanical gardens. Ruth enjoys working with institutional communities to plan and design facilities that meet their needs and reflect their image and unique character, using workshops to gather the critical information and discover collective solutions. Ruth serves on the board of Grow Native Massachusetts, a small non-profit that promotes the recognition of the ecological potential of every corner of the state, no matter how small.
#North America# #Northeast#
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