With degrees in Architecture, City and Regional Planning and an MBA in Management, coupled with 35 years of- international urban and regional project planning, design and implementation, Gordon Linden brings a wealth of experience to Ansel Associates.  He has worked with us as part of our evaluation team on several projects, most recently Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria and on a feasibility study conducted for the University of California at Chico in 2003/4.

Gordon's career spans the globe: He is currently involved in the coordination and preparation of plans for several major residential and commercial developments in California and is an advisor on two cultural projects in Vienna, Austria. In Dubai, he managed master plan studies as part of a team developing Palm Island amanmade island resort complex under construction in Dubai. He contributed master plan expertise in the development of a new Equestrian and Golf Community also being developed in Dubai. He served as an advisor to the team that prepared a Tourism Priority Action Plan for the Middle Eastern country of Oman. 

In Australia, he assisted Tourism Victoria in identifying and contacting North American theme park owners/operators as part of a program intended to promote development of a major theme park in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Australia.  In Greece, he was the Technical Consultant to the Athens Olympics Organizing Committee 2004 for the architectural competition for the Olympic Village built as part of the permanent facilities program of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He was the study manager for the initial assessment team brought in to the Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002 and assisted in assessing the status of planning and budgeting for this $1+billion event. Previously he assisted the Hong Kong Tourist Association in developing a plan for a proposed international exposition to be hosted in Hong Kong in the year 2001.  In 1998, he was an advisor to the organizers of the Millennium Experience in London and he managed a confidential feasibility study to assess the potentials for hosting an international exposition in a major city in the southeast of the United States. 

For the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games Mr. Linden was Project Manager for the team that performed the detailed engineering and construction management of the temporary adaptation work for three Olympic Villages.  The scope of the work involved over 6 million square feet including all living quarters for the Athletes and the Press and Media, food services (including a 3,500-seat restaurant in the Main Village), offices for the various National Olympic Committees, resident service centers, a bowling alley, art gallery, movie theaters, laundry facilities, a security center and a variety of other improvements. Mr. Linden is the author of numerous articles and papers on urban development topics.

He is a registered architect in the State of California, a member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, and the American Institute of Certified Planners.    In 1996, Mr. Linden became a member of the Business Council of the World Tourism Organization.

Gordon is fluent in Spanish.

Heinz Reese was engaged by the City of Wolfsburg Germany and worked closely with Ansel Associates to provide business planning, staff development and operational advice for the start-up of phaneo.  He brought his experience of working in both the private and public sectors to the job of creating the business and the organizational plans for phaeno. As the organization developed, growing from a few key staff to a full compliment of separate departments, he assisted with interviews and staff selection, conducted staff trainings and provided ongoing buisness planning advice and guidance.

Prior to starting his private consulting service, Mr. Reese gained 12 years of experience in programming and exhibit development -- nine years as Director of Exhibits at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, and three years as Vice President of Programs and Exhibit Development at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. In these capacities, he has provided overall management supervision for over seventy five exhibition projects, including international exhibition projects. He has also carried out various consulting assignments in new museum and science centre projects in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and in South Africa. Prior to entering the museum field, Mr. Reese worked in the private sector for eighteen years in general management and new product development. He has an MBA from York University and an Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.

Heinze speaks conversational German and French.