Originally posted by Warfield.co 8/29/17

EDWIN WARFIELD: Tell us about your background. What led you to start the Verve Partnership?

KELLY ENNIS: I started at HOK in 1998, in Los Angeles. I was lucky enough to be in an economy and in a region that was really exciting, really fun, and educational as well. Clients were amazing, the space was amazing, and I really learned a lot about the strategy of space and the business of space and how those two were intermingled.

In 2004, my husband and I had our first child in Los Angeles, and decided we didn’t want to raise our child in LA, even though the weather is a little bit nicer. We moved back east. We’re both from the East Coast. My husband is from Baltimore, and we wanted to raise our child in the city. We moved back in 2005 and I started at Gensler. The culture at Gensler was a little bit different than the culture at HOK. The culture of Baltimore—much different than the culture of Los Angeles. I started to travel around, looking for a home that made sense. It really didn’t make sense that I was looking for a home—I just needed to create one, based off of the experiences that I created along the way.

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