Agenda

Dionne Darling

VP of Brand Partnerships

The Architect’s Newspaper

Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over six years. As VP of Brand Partnerships and Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Europe territories. Dionne has over 28 years of direct B2B sales, management and business development experience.

Gretchen Von Grossmann

Managing Principal

AECOM

Gretchen Von Grossmann, AIA

Gretchen Von Grossmann recently returned to AECOM as Managing Principal of Boston/New England Buildings + Places after a previous 5-year stint. She is a highly experienced team leader for planning, initiation, design and construction of buildings and infrastructure. As an urban design consultant, she’s developed transportation- related projects for wide-ranging public clients. She then became a client employed at public and university entities (UMass Lowell, the MBTA, and Tufts University), where she directed internal and consulting project managers, consulting designers and contractors. As a skilled facilitator of group decision-making processes, including among competing interests, her passion is to encourage beauty in the design of complex, multi- priority projects.