Partner Profile: Matthew J. Birk

It’s a new year and with a new year comes change. With this, the first issue of egbbn in 2007, such a change is being introduced. A new feature that will appear in upcoming issues of egbbn is the Partner Profile. In each issue, a Partner will be introduced and answer a few questions. If you weren’t already familiar with the leaders of our firm, now you’ll be able to put a face with a name and a face with various projects (past, present and future) featured.

Matthew (Matt) J. Birk is this issue's featured Partner.

Matt is the firm’s CIO, and became a Partner in 1996. The first GBBN project he was involved with was the Boone State Bank.

Matt and wife Mary live in Madisonville with their three children: Luke (17), Kirby (16), and Riley (16). Hobbies include hunting, fishing, and sports of all sorts.

What are some of GBBN's projects that you've been involved with?

• Children’s Hospital Clinical Tower
• Aronoff Center for the Arts
• Public Library of Cincinnati Hamilton County
• Great American Ballpark

What are your goals for the firm in the upcoming year?
To provide the highest quality, technology-based services to facilitate GBBN’s strategic plan as it applies to the management, design and production of GBBN’s services.

What is your personal mantra?
There are three types of people: those who lead; those who follow; and those who ask, ‘what happened?’ or, better yet… two types of people: those who fish and those who don’t!