A Leader Who Listens

Steve Whitney, FAIA, LEED® AP, has been a member of Kahn’s Board of Directors since 1986 and served as its President from 1999 to 2009 as well as its CEO since 2001. In his first year of full-time employment as an architect, his Minneapolis firm sent him to the office of TAC, a high-profile Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm, to participate in a joint venture design of the massive University of Minnesota Health Sciences Expansion, and by the time Kahn was awarded the University of Michigan Replacement Hospital project in 1979 Steve had accumulated more hospital experience than any young architect could have hoped for. Kahn wooed him and brought him in as Lead Project Architect.

“It’s been a huge growth opportunity for me – going from Project Architect to running a technical department to forming and running the market focus Health Care Group to being on the Board and ultimately having this job,” Steve says. more...