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John brings superior team leadership and responsive service to his role with DesignGroup. With 34 years of project management experience, he offers a proven understanding of the project delivery process, from conceptual design to completion.

John provides leadership in client management, quality assurance, cost control, staffing, and coordination to each project. He is a graduate of Leadership Columbus and currently serves as a board member of Mentorship Columbus, a program of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Ohio.

Lorne offers strong team leadership and client responsiveness to his role as Project Manager. His communication skills and passion for effective collaboration result in high performing project teams creating exemplary design solutions.

The proactive planning and design process Lorne leads is goal-centered, schedule-driven, and results-oriented. He’s developed a broad range of experience in community-impacting projects for both private and public clients. Lorne not only applies his commitment to servicing others in his role as an architect, but also as an energetic community volunteer and leader.

Mark has successfully managed several of the firm’s most complex healthcare projects. He seeks projects requiring strong leadership and organizational skills, as Mark is highly talented in these areas. As the Project Manager, Mark believes that architecture, planning, engineering, and landscape architecture are critically interconnected disciplines.

His thorough understanding of program development ensures a process responsive to environment, function, phasing and cost requirements. Mark then excels at delivering these projects on time and on budget. Mark is the Healthcare Practice Group’s Operations Leader in connecting Health & Wellness to sustainability and green building design.

CEO of DesignGroup since 2009, Sherm is a design-oriented leader who has devoted his entire career to the programming and planning of award-winning, complex healthcare projects nationwide.

He is a board certified healthcare architect, a lean certified project manager, and is a frequent contributor to research of the Advisory Board Company. With over 25 years of focused experience in healthcare, clients benefit from his unique depth of industry specific knowledge and understanding of the ever-changing trends that lead to best practice thinking and innovation. He has published and presented nationally on issues related to healthcare design, sustainability, and corporate leadership. Sherm firmly believes in having a bias for action and the value of teamwork and collaboration as the best path for enduring project success.

Leading DesignGroup’s Pittsburgh office, Tom brings over 30 years of experience working in a variety of healthcare environments from hospitals to medical office buildings and free-standing clinics. Managing both small and large projects, Tom is a strong project manager with skillful leadership in team coordination and client communication. He is dedicated to providing quality service though teamwork and communication with the owner, design and construction team. 

Michael is a noted design leader with a focus on community impacting, mission-driven architecture that supports and enhances the fabric of the city and furthers a fundamental belief that great design is the essential building block to vibrant, healthy communities.

His work has garnered numerous awards nationally, most recently named The Wall Street Journal’s “Best Architecture of 2015” for the design of Columbus Museum of Art’s Margaret M. Walter Wing.

Michael has presented and written extensively on design and creative placemaking. Michael’s 2012 TEDx Columbus talk, entitled “Looking Over the Overlooked,” took the audience on a journey to discover new ways to re-imagine cities.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he is a cum laude graduate of the prestigious Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York City and has lived and traveled extensively abroad.

Jennifer’s expertise includes business development, strategic marketing, and implementation of the annual marketing plan.

She leads the project pursuit approach, from beginning to end, in each of DesignGroup’s five markets.