Larry Armstrong joined me on Accelerate OC at a time that his industry, commercial architecture and building, is undergoing the greatest disruption and change of his multi-decade career. It was such an engaging and compelling conversation!
He is Chairman of Ware Malcomb, an international design firm providing planning, architecture, interior design, branding, civil engineering and building measurement services to commercial real estate and corporate clients, from its 25 office locations throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and Panama. They’ve been recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company and Best Firm to Work For by Zweig Group. The firm is also ranked among the top 15 architecture/engineering firms in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms.
Larry is a strategic visionary, accomplished architect and strong business leader. He’s been an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner, a multi-time OCBJ OC500 member of the most influential OC community leaders. He’s been with Ware Malcomb for over 30 years, and as CEO for over 25, as he grew firm revenue by 40x during his time as CEO. Earlier this year he became Chairman.
Larry guest lectures at USC, Chapman and UCI, and has even given the commencement address for his alma mater, Kent State. He’s super active in the OC community across a number of leadership groups, highlighted by his role leading the United to End Homelessness campaign here, along with a couple of my prior guests. He also recently joined the CEO Leadership Alliance of OC, which we discussed on the show.
Dave Ferrera - General Partner of Treadstone Holdings
Sloane Keane - CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and Inland Empire
Jeff Martin - CEO & Founder of Collective Genius
Minnie Ingersoll - Partner at TenOneTen
Curtis Boyd - Founder & CEO of Objection Co
Zach Silverman - Founder of Educated Investors
Marvin Liao - Partner at GameGroove Capital & Former Partner at 500 Startups
Rajeev Kapur - President & CEO of 1105 Media
Tommy Tallarico - President & CEO of Intellivision Entertainment
William Fikhman - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Amazzia
Joshua Lee - Founder & CEO of Ardius
Annette Walker - President of City of Hope OC
Libby Duane Adams - Co-founder & Chief Advocacy Officer of Alteryx
Bob Nunn - CEO of Everactive
Deepa Krishnan - Co-founder & CEO of Spoonful
Kelly Perdew - Co-founder & Managing Partner of Moonshots Capital
Jennifer Friend - CEO of Project Hope Alliance
Ben Kuo - Founder & Publisher of socalTECH
(Part 2) John Dearie - President of Center for American Entrepreneurship
Giorgi Chigogidze & Chris Steege - Co-founders & CEO, CMO, respectively at Purlin
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