Meet the Team
Eric Rupe
Chief Executive Officer
Lerch Bates
Jeff Marsh
Executive Vice President
Will Babbington,
FAIA, PE, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Principal -
Facade Design
Bradford J. Prestbo,
FAIA
Senior Principal -
Facade Design
Margarita Bedmar González,
AIA, LEED AP BCD
Senior Facade Architect, Sustainability Director
Felipe Francisco,
AIA, CPHC
Principal -
Facade Design
Jim Collins
National Practice Leader -
Parking Design
Kenneth Dietz
Vice President
West
Jacob Erwin
Vice President
Central
Ted Godfrey, PE
Senior Principal -
Structural Design
Derek Groenwoldt
National Practice Leader -
Vertical Transportation Design
Julian Lineham, PE, F.SEI, F.ASCE, CEng, FICE
Senior Principal -
Structural Design
Tim O'Brien
Director -
Building Logistics Design
Central
Chris O'Hara, PE
Senior Principal -
Structural and Facade Design
Arnold Pinkney
National Practice Leader -
Facade Access Design
Richard Roberts
Director
NYC
Tim Russell
Director
East
John Slovik
Director -
Building Logistics Design
West
Kevin Thompson
Vice President -
Simulation Services
Jack Tornquist
Executive Vice President - Technical Support
Come Join Our Team
When you join our team, you become more than an employee. You become an employee-owner. Lerch Bates, parent company of studio|LB is 100% employee-owned via an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, that is equitably and equally owned by all our individual contributors.
When you become an employee-owner, you have a direct stake in this company and share in its profits. It affects more than your bottom line; it gives you a voice in how we deliver responsibility, service and performance. We call that the ownership mindset.