Speakers

With over 40 years of experience in the aluminum and glass façade industry across demanding international markets—including the Middle East, Dubai, the United States, and Switzerland—Roger Scharer brings exceptional expertise in delivering custom-designed façade engineering solutions. His career encompasses the...

Armed with a Structural Engineering double-degree from Oxford University, Rohan has experience working with Façade and Fenestration companies in Thailand, Spain and South Korea. Leading the operations at Aluplex since 2011, Rohan has been using his strong technical foundations to...

With more than a decade of experience, Rohit has been instrumental in establishing Innovators as one of India’s leading façade engineering, manufacturing, and execution companies. A graduate of Purdue University in Building Construction and NICMAR in Construction Management, he combines...

Instilling fascination, elevating the human spirit, and initiating conversation are the cornerstones of Urban Zen’s design story. A passionate proponent of independent thinking and creative change, Rohit Suraj, Urban Zen’s Founder and CEO, is a TedX Speaker and has been...

RohithaRajaratne is the Head of Engineering at Aitken Spence Hotels. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer by profession and counts over two decades of professional experience after graduating from the University of Moratuwa. He served in the Sri Lanka Navy...

Rok Lee, AIA, leads DeSimone’s global façade and building envelope practice, which includes façade design, restoration and forensics. He provides invaluable insight to DeSimone’s structural engineering and forensic consulting teams across project types, employing his expertise for new façade design,...

As one of ALT’s founding team members with over a decade of experience, Roland brings exceptional expertise in façade design. He skillfully guides projects from conceptual development through successful construction completion. Roland excels in quality control, conducting comprehensive on-site and...

Roland Bechmann is a member of the executive board and partner at the engineering firm Werner Sobek in Stuttgart. He studied civil engineering at the University of Hanover and has been with Werner Sobek since 2000. Roland Bechmann heads the...

Roland is HawkinsBrown’s Technical Director, he has a background in venue design, façades, major projects and multi-disciplinary working. Roland’s role at joined HawkinsBrown is to enhance the practice’s technical and project delivery capability across all sectors but with a specific...

After studying Materials Engineering and majoring in metal forming technology Roman Kordtomeikel started his PhD in the field of production engineering with focus on sheet metal forming. Topics he dealt with were new technologies in the field of prototyping and...

Roman Kristesiashvili is a Senior Architect and Associate at UNS’s headquarters in Amsterdam, bringing over 20 years of international experience in architecture, urban development, and project leadership. Since joining UNS in 2010, he has directed complex, high profile projects across...

Roman Schieber joined knippershelbig in 2007 and is now a managing director. Leading the knippershelbig Facades team in Europe and North America allows Roman the opportunity to work on unique, challenging projects all over the world. His association to structural...

Romeo manages a team of engineers who are responsible for structural, thermal and acoustics performance of the façade. He also has 15 years façade experience.

Ron Bakker is a co-founder of PLP Architecture and leads PLP Labs, the studio’s in-house research and innovation arm. His experience reaches far and wide, with projects across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Through his work and...

Ron Hull, P.E, CDT® is the Global Director of High-Performance Products for Kuraray. Ron is based in the USA and holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration. He currently serves on the Board of Directors...

Ron Jacobs is Project Sales Manager International and has worked with Jansen AG for more than thirty years. For the first 27 years, he acted as Jansen’s distribution partner in the Netherlands and Belgium, where he and his team promoted...

Ronald brings more than twenty years of hands-on construction management experience, having risen from a Technical Director to a senior leadership role. Leveraging his expertise in bidding & procurement, performance mock-ups, submittal reviews, testing & commissioning, and façade installation, he...