Speaker Profile

Mark Sopp

Senior Vice President & Principal, SB Architects

With more than 25 years of international and domestic mixed-use and hospitality master planning, conceptual design and project management experience, Mark Sopp has an acute understanding of business operations and innovative design principles. He works with developers and design teams to lead projects through a coordinated process to ensure the end product reflects the client’s goals and vision. As the former Director of the Retail and Mixed-Use Studio at Callison, he was the lead designer for the Ala Moana Center expansion and the revitalization of the Royal Hawaiian Center, which won the 2008 Honolulu AIA Merit Award. Shanghai’s mixed-use Grand Gateway development and the Ayala Center Greenbelt in Manila - winner of the 2003 ULI Award of Excellence design direction.