DES Announces Dawn Jedkins and Waibun Lee as Co-CEOs
Dawn Jedkins and Waibun Lee are the new Co-CEOs of DES Architects + Engineers. The Co-CEOs are entrusted to lead the firm to continued growth and design excellence within the ever-changing commercial real estate market. The two have long been leaders at the firm as Associate Partners and the heads of multidisciplinary teams. The company is adopting this new leadership structure to benefit from their combined strengths and breadth of experience.
Dawn’s and Waibun’s careers progressed with the rapid surges, shifts, and reinventions of the local tech and biopharmaceutical industries as the backdrop. Waibun is credited with leading the firm’s early adoption of technology, integrating it across the company from design processes to IT. In 2020, he founded LightFiction, a specialty graphics and visualization studio and DES subsidiary, to expand the firm’s creative capabilities. Dawn has been integral in the design and master planning of large-scale, life science and office campuses. Such experiences prepared them to lead the company, as advances in AI and other evolving technologies reshape the industry, necessitating curiosity and the entrepreneurial spirit to meet rapid change head-on.
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September 12, 2025
DES
Name: Kate Albee
Phone: 650-980-9686
Email: marketing@des-ae.com