Leadership
Thriven Design is made up of an experienced team of architects, engineers, community planners, interior designers, and energy specialists.
Matthew Bartner
Managing Principal, Practice & Performance
Richard A. Carbone
Managing Principal, Growth & Strategy
Stephen L. Schoch
Principal
Mary M. Johannesen
Principal
Alkeshkumar Taylor
Principal, Director of Asset Preservation, Director of Engineering
Stephen Finkelman
Principal
Keith Peacock
Principal
Claire Van Haren
Ryan Wolfe
Associate Principal, Manager of Engineering
Milton D. Smith
Senior Associate
Claudia Bitran
Senior Associate, Director of Planning
Christopher J. Panella
Al DeLuca
Senior Associate, Director of Project Services
Tammy Schiavo
Senior Associate
Cynthia Del Rossi
Jonathan Hicks
Natalie Tucker
Our Team
Thriven Design brings together four teams of professionals to offer clients an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to their projects. Early collaboration among architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design disciplines leads to better design, better documentation, and a streamlined timeline toward project completion.
Come work for a different kind of design firm just minutes from Center City, Philadelphia. Based in the heart of Collingswood, New Jersey, Thriven Design is a dedicated and integrated collaborative team of 65 architects, urban planners, engineers and interior designers working side-by-side, each and every day, toward one common goal—making the future better for everyone.
Working at Thriven Design
We're Motivated by a Call to Serve
Since our founding we have been committed to serving others and creating places where people thrive. As a firm we seek out work that allows us to design in a sustainable, holistic way and fulfill a community’s essential needs, whether housing, health care, education, gathering, or employment.
We're All Owners
Thriven Design is structured as an ESOP, which means our employees are also our owners. There is a direct connection between the firm’s success and our employees’ success, and we have a culture in place to help all employees reach their fullest potential, whether this means providing mentorship, a clearly defined career path, support along the licensing journey, or opportunities for continuing education.
We Value Work-Life Balance
Thriven Design follows a hybrid work week, offers generous PTO, and hosts events for employees and their families periodically throughout the year. We were founded as a family company and seek to keep that family feeling alive as we grow into our next 50 years.
Working alongside our amazing Thriven Design family and our valued clientele bringing to life our designs within so many different types of communities and buildings I truly feel fulfilled. I am a people person, and connecting with everyone on each level of the design, construction, and with the end users of each project has allowed me to make some wonderful connections and lifelong friends. Knowing that I played a part in helping create places where people thrive brings me so much joy.
Claire Van Haren, Principal, Director of Interior Design
