SHARLENE SILVERMAN has twenty years experience in strategic planning and marketing for the architectural and engineering industry and she currently provides consulting services for The Coxe Group, Inc., in those and other areas.
Ms. Silverman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Honors from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1992, she was awarded the Leonardo Award for excellence in marketing by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Marketing Professional Services.
Most recently, Ms. Silverman was Director of Professional Services at Universal Studios, responsible for overseeing the procurement of all architecture, engineering, specialist consultants, and construction services for new theme park and resort projects worldwide.
Prior to that, Ms. Silverman was responsible for establishing the Los Angeles office of Ove Arup & Partners, an international multi-disciplinary engineering firm with 70 offices in 22 countries. As Principal of Ove Arup & Partners for twelve years, she helped build the U. S. practice from an entrepreneurial start-up of three staff in one office to a staff of 350 in four offices with annual revenues of $40 million. Ms Silverman was responsible for leading strategic planning and marketing activities for the US practice.
Before joining Ove Arup & Partners, Ms. Silverman held positions as Marketing Director for Bobrow/ Thomas & Associates Architects in Los Angeles and Frizzell Hill Moorhouse Beaubois Architects in San Francisco, where she was responsible for leading the firm's diversification into new client sectors.
Ms. Silverman is currently on the Board of Directors for Alternative Living for the Aging, and she is Past President and board member of the University of Southern California Architectural Guild. Ms. Silverman has taught several courses and lectured on professional practice and marketing in architecture at USC, UCLA, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and the University of Arizona. In addition, she has led seminars for the American Institute of Architects, the Society for Marketing Professional Services, and the A/E/C Systems National Convention.
The Coxe Group is headquartered in Seattle (206/467-4040), and Ms. Silverman lives in Los Angeles.
GREGORY SHEA is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University with an A.B. in history and literature and holds an M.Sc. degree in management studies from London School of Economics and an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in administrative sciences from Yale University. Before joining The Coxe Group to specialize in organization development issues, Dr. Shea was an assistant professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he received an Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Shea is the author of numerous published chapters and articles on work group effectiveness, organization development, and conflict behavior. His work has appeared in Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Applied Management, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Dr. Shea is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.
The Coxe Group is headquartered in Seattle (206/467-4040), and Dr. Shea lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In education, Mr. Coxe currently holds an appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He served for five years on the adjunct faculty of the Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, where he taught a career planning course: The Design of Design Organizations. In addition, he has taught the Management of Design Firms summer program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1990 to 1993 he and his late wife, Mary Chapman Hayden, co-chaired a work group of the International Union of Architects researching World Trends in Private Practice in 20 countries of North America, Europe and Asia.
In 1976 he was elected an Honorary Member of The American Institute of Architects. He is a certified member of the Institute of Management Consultants, and a Fellow of the Society for Marketing Professional Services.
In civic affairs he serves on the boards of the Sophia G. Coxe Charitable Trust; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and Cathedral Village, a retirement community in Philadelphia.
Mr. Coxe became emeritus principal of The Coxe Group in 1994. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island.
WELD COXE, is emeritus founding principal of The Coxe Group, the oldest and largest organization of management consultants serving exclusively architects and other professional design firms. Mr. Coxe studied at Harvard College and became active in the design community in 1960. He is the author of Managing Architectural and Engineering Services (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980) and Marketing Architectural and Engineering Services (Krieger Publishing, 2nd Edition, 1984), and co-author of Success Strategies for Design Professionals: SuperPositioning for Architectural and Engineering Firms Krieger Publishing, Reprint Edition, 1992).