MEET THE TEAM
The People Who Make it Happen
Andrew Bryant
Founder
Andrew is focused on design + manufacturing + construction platforms for ipHaus. He is an award winning designer with previous experience at international firms including Asymptote Architecture and OMA before starting his own company Creative Commonspace in Beijing, China (2013). He has designed over 537k+ sqm of GFA (gross floor area) cumulatively for projects exceeding $775M in construction budgets in total.
Andrew graduated from UCLA with honors (Master’s Degree in Architecture) and he is currently based in Beijing, China.
Alex Skinner
Co-Founder
Fernando is a deep-technology engineer and ecosystem entrepreneur and currently directs Cornell University’s NYC-based incubator with a track record of growing 73 portfolio research projects that combined have a current valuation of over 1/4 Billion dollars. His ability to speak to the primary challenges of production processes stems from a background in supply chain logistics at PepsiCo in Colombia where he managed the national distribution of FritoLay products accounting for 40M+ packages achieving cost savings of over $5M/year.
Fernando holds a BS in Industrial Engineering-Operations Research and an MS in Economics from the University of Los Andes, and an MS and Ph.D. in Nanoscale Engineering from the State University of New York at Albany. Fernando is currently based in New York City.
Alex Skinner
Co-Founder
Alex is an economic anthropologist specializing in real estate finance, feasibility and policy, particularly for impoverished and emerging markets. He has conducted feasibility analysis and investment structuring for 32 commercial real estate projects across three nations with a total construction value of $1.17B.
Alex holds a BS in Social Anthropology from University of Manchester, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is based in London, England.
Yasmeen Pattie
Project Management
Yasmeen Ahmed Pattie is the principal and founder of East Egg Project Management, a New York City- and State-certified MWBE firm offering real estate, economic development, and planning services for non-profits and in the life sciences. With 20+ years of relationship building and project management experience, Yasmeen works with growing companies to find, lease, and furnish new spaces and to access public funding and incentives to support that growth. She also advises larger organizations on development and planning initiatives, including feasibility studies and community programming concepts, and she helps developers to evaluate sites and advise on strategy.
Yasmeen received her degrees from Amherst College and the University of California at Berkeley and based in NYC.
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