People
Because It Takes a Team
Ivy & Moira
Robin Weckesser
Taylor Stilwell
Chris Arata
Gordon Zagar
Marc Flax
Sandy Reposar
Robert Garcia
Richard Reposar
Rick Potter (Austin, TX)
- Our team delivers value to every client through our experience, problem/solution focus, and responsiveness.
- Our professionals average 20-plus years of experience and have represented hundreds of clients with projects totaling millions of square feet.
- The team is led by industry pioneer Robin Weckesser, who brings a background in architecture, corporate real estate/construction, project/construction and facilities management, and commercial brokerage/tenant representation.
- Robin is one of the industry’s leading workplace design and implementation thought leaders.
- Our team includes the following professionals, but it’s only fitting that we start with our newest canine members!:
People are our greatest asset—but we’d be lost without our pets! After we promoted Ivy to be K9 Director of People & Culture, she let us know she was overworked. So we added Moira to the team. As Assistant Director, Moira reports to Ivy…when she feels like it.
- 40 years of experience
- Specializations: interior architecture, workplace design, process management, project implementation, budget and schedule management, and corporate facilities.
- Education: M.A. in Organizational Management, University of Phoenix; B.S. in Business Administration, University of Phoenix
- Affiliations: American Institute of Architects (AIA), CoreNet Global, and International Facilities Management Association (IFMA)
- As an industry pioneer, he directed the design and construction of multiple domestic and international projects for Apple, among them Apple’s owned headquarters as well as the Infinite Loop R&D Campus in Cupertino, CA
- 15+ years experience
- Specializations: infrastructure in early to mature stage growth and expansion within startups; implementing operational strategies within the environment of facilities and human resources; creating and cultivating corporate culture
- Education: MS in Counseling Psychology
- 18+ years of experience
- Specializations: Project administration, pre-Construction, construction and closeout. Shell and interiors construction management including, project buyout, cost control, permitting, inspections, document control, design coordination, procurement, quality assurance, quality control, punchlist and closeout
- 30+ years of experience
- Specializations: project integration and cost reduction, collaborative leadership, strategies promoting global growth and expansion, transforming operational environments, and creating performance cultures
- Education: AAEE, Electronic Engineering, Community College of the Air Force, Montgomery, Alabama; B.S.B.A., Business Management, Capella University
- Affiliations: International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE): Advisory Board Member; International Society of Automation (ISA): Senior Member; International Facilities Management Association (IFMA); Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA)
- 30+ years of experience
- Specializations: architecture/interior design, furniture, construction project management, project administration, solution/process development, implementation and management
- 25+ years of experience
- Specializations: team coordination, client accounts, website and presentation development, RFP preparation, quality assurance
- 35+ years of experience
- Specializations: system design, resource management, risk analysis, budget management, estimation
- Education: B.A. Biology/Chemistry , San Jose State University, San Jose; ASHE Health Care Certified; US Army/Navy Corps of Engineers Quality NAVFAC Certification; OSHA 30 Certification
- 34 years of experience
- Specializations: oversight and management of strategic and tactical real estate activities, facilities planning, workplace operations throughout the Americas, global consulting for APJ and EMEA, life science project management, negotiating and administering lab construction contracts, site selection, design, construction of domestic and international projects
- Strong presence in Southern California
- Over the course of his 30 year commercial real estate career, Potter has developed more than 4 million sq ft of office, industrial, and retail space valued in excess of $397 million. Potter has also managed over 150 interior projects over the past 35 years totaling over 5 million sq ft and valued in excess of $155 million. Notable clients have included: Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, Oracle, VMware, Globalfoundries, and Mass Mutual
- Specializations: development, project management, marketing, and brokerage of office and industrial buildings and land
- Education: Bachelor of Public Relations, University of Texas at Austin; Master of Business Administration with an emphasis on business law, West Texas A&M University. Licensed commercial real estate broker in the State of Texas since 1983
- Affiliations: Real Estate Council of Austin; Commercial Leasing Brokers Association; Urban Land Institute