Mahmoud F. Agha, PhD, AIA, NCARB

Principal

Dr. Agha has a wealth of experience in architectural practice, including all phases of design and construction administration. Since joining RBSD in 1976, he has managed the design of many of the firm's largest commissions, and has served as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, or Project Manager of all of the firm's work overseas. He has extensive experience with the design of healthcare, office, residential and commercial facilities. His firm-wide responsibilities include organization and direction of architectural, engineering, interior design and construction staffs, contract negotiations, and budget and schedule development.

Dr. Agha has been instrumental in achieving RBSD’s goals to bring U.S. design standards to healthcare facilities worldwide through projects such as the Hospital of the Heart (Dar Al Fouad) project near Cairo with The Cleveland Clinic; the Saud Al Babtain Cardiac Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia; the Madinat-Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Medical Center in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia; King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and El Maghraby Eye Centers in Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Additional international projects led by Dr. Agha include the Cairo Financial Center and the Cairo Stock Exchange Modernization projects in Cairo, Egypt; the Sphinx Mall in Giza, Egypt, the International Touristic Complex at Sheraton Hurghada Site in Hurghada Bay, Egypt; and Mobil Oil’s Administration Complex for the Petromin/Mobil Yanbu Export Fuels Refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Domestically, Dr. Agha has also been responsible for overseeing a variety of RBSD’s projects, including the St. Charles Hospital Major Modernization in Port Jefferson, NY; the Suren and Virginia Fesjian Pavilion for Ambulatory Surgery at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle, NY; the New York State Veterans Home at St. Albans, Queens, and the Islamic Cultural Center School in New York, NY. 

Dusan Popovic, AIA, NCARB

Principal

Mr. Popovic has led the design of most of RBSD’s major corporate and international work for over the last 20 years. This work includes some of the world’s largest medical complexes, as well as highly successful corporate projects, such as Mobil Oil’s Administrative Headquarters building in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. headquarters building for Banco Santander in New York City. His experience includes a wide variety of corporate headquarters projects for the securities and financial, investment banking, real estate, and airline industries. Mr. Popovic's unique background enables him to bring fresh new design approaches that are responsive to his clients' specific goals and objectives, respectful of the need for functional efficiency, and based upon an immediate knowledge of successful design solutions worldwide.

In addition to leading RBSD’s design on projects such as the Banco Santander building, Mr. Popovic has led the design for corporate office projects in New York City for clients such as Baring Securities, Inc., Baring Brothers & Co., Inc., Concord International L.P., Highpoint Realty, and SEEDCO.

Internationally, he has directed the firm’s design on a variety of healthcare projects, including the Hospital of the Heart (Dar Al Fouad) project near Cairo with The Cleveland Clinic; the Madinat-Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Medical Center in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia; and the King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the United States, Mr. Popovic has been responsible for overseeing the design of the firm’s major healthcare projects, including the St. Charles Hospital & Rehabilitation Center Major Modernization Project in Port Jefferson, NY; the award-winning Sound Shore Medical Center Suren and Virginia Fesjian Pavilion for Ambulatory Surgery in New Rochelle, NY; and the Jersey City Medical Center New Replacement Hospital in Jersey City, NJ. In addition, Mr. Popovic has been responsible for the design of numerous high-end residential projects in the United States and abroad.

William B. Selan, AIA, NCARB

Principal

A recognized leader in the field of healthcare design, Mr. Selan offers significant experience that includes design of complete new medical centers as well as major modernization and expansion programs. Currently, he plays an active role in setting national design standards for healthcare facilities through his role on the AIA Healthcare Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Healthcare Facilities committee, on which he chairs the subcommittee that is standardizing the definition of sub-acute specialty areas. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for the design and construction of more than 40 major hospital projects representing nearly one billion dollars worth of construction.

During the past 10 years alone, Mr. Selan has been responsible as Principal-in-Charge for nearly one hundred projects for repeat clients such as The Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, and Long Beach Medical Center. These projects have ranged from the $23 million Major Modernization project at The Jamaica Hospital Medical Center to dozens of smaller-scale additions and renovations encompassing nearly every hospital department. In addition, Mr. Selan has been responsible for numerous projects to create new state-of-the-art dialysis centers across the five boroughs of New York for Island Rehabilitative Services. Another key component of Mr. Selan’s experience is the design of long-term care facilities, and he has directed the design of numerous facilities in the New York City region, including the New York State Veterans Home at St. Albans, Queens, the St. Elizabeth Ann Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Staten Island, NY, and the Oaks at Somers Congregate Care Facility in Somers, NY.

Mr. Selan has also been active in the design of behavioral health facilities since he began his career in the 1960s with projects such as the Children's Hospital, Creedmore, NY, a 200-bed hospital for the mentally handicapped, and a 200-bed psychiatric unit at Lechtworth Village. Today, he continues this tradition by overseeing the firm’s design of a $105 million new state-of-the-art behavioral health center at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, which will create an efficient, flexible facility that reflects the basic philosophy of meeting the human needs of patients for individual privacy, socializing opportunities, comfort and security, while providing clarity of orientation.

Larry Fink, AIA, NCARB

Senior Associate

With over 30 years of architectural experience, Mr. Fink enjoys the challenges of managing the development and execution of complex projects, from multi-phased renovations and expansions of occupied facilities to brand new additions and replacement facilities. From the beginning years of his career to the present, Mr. Fink has played an integral role in some of the largest new facility projects in the Northern New Jersey and New York Metropolitan region, including the two-and-a-half-million-square-foot AT&T Corporate Headquarters Building in Basking Ridge, NJ, which was one of the largest corporate office complexes to be constructed in the United States at that time, as well as the recently completed $125 million New Medical Center and Ambulatory Care Center for Jersey City Medical Center.

Mr. Fink has focused on healthcare facility design for more than half of his career, and he has proven his ability to successfully manage large, complex multi-building healthcare facility complexes through his work on the 13-building $121 million Madinat-Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Medical Center in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, which was completed on time and within budget. Working with the Program and Construction Management firm, Ralph Parsons Ltd. from Pasadena, CA, Mr. Fink remained on-site to provide advisory services at the site throughout the construction period. His noteworthy healthcare projects in the United States have included the design of new patient towers for hospitals such as St. Elizabeth Hospital in Elizabeth, NJ, and Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, PA.

Mr. Fink offers significant recent experience in the design of facilities for behavioral healthcare. He is currently managing the design of a new behavioral health center as part of the Major Redevelopment, Phase IV at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, which will create a cutting-edge new facility to integrate the continuum of behavioral health care that promotes the process of helping patients become healthy enough to return to the community. His experience also includes the “basis for design” for the consolidation and replacement of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County, NJ, which involves the restructuring of the entire facility to consolidate the 670-acre site into 250 acres to accommodate 400 beds. Other similar experience includes his work as Project Manager for the Psychiatric Crisis Center as part of the $25 million Consolidated Patient Services Project at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, one of the largest and most active emergency departments in the region.

Mark Evans O’Leary, AIA

Senior Associate

Mr. O'Leary has over 25 years of experience in architectural design, and has worked on a variety of projects, including office space planning and design, educational facilities design, housing, medical facilities, and museums. His experience includes design of new facilities, renovations, and historic preservation and restoration. He has particular expertise in developing construction details that support design decisions, and in code requirements and resulting construction requirements for fire and life safety. As Project Manager, he has been responsible for coordinating the development of the design, orchestrating the contributions of a multidisciplinary team of professionals and subconsultants, and for meeting quality, budget, and schedule targets.

Most recently, Mr. O’Leary has demonstrated his ability to manage large multidisciplined teams through his hands-on management of the new $125 million replacement hospital for Jersey City Medical Center, which opened in May 2004. His additional healthcare facility projects include the Center for Molecular Medicine & Immunology at Garden State Cancer Center, the Dammam Central Hospital Saud Al Babtain Cardiac Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and a design study for a Community Medical Center in Jackson Heights, NY, for Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He also has played key management roles in the design of new facilities for the elderly, such as The Oaks at Somers Congregate Care Facility in Somers, NY, and the Bronx Lebanon Special Care Center in Bronx, NY.

Mr. O’Leary’s experience also includes numerous corporate office projects in New York City such as the 19-story Banco Santander Building, as well as headquarters facilities for Baring Brothers & Company, Inc., Concord International Investments Group, LP, Baring Securities, Inc., and Royal Jordanian Airlines. He also played a key role in RBSD’s international projects, such as the Modernization of the Cairo Stock Exchange in Egypt.