Kate Bautista, NCIDQ, EDAC, IIDA, LEED AP, has been promoted to Interior Design Department Leader at HGA in Milwaukee. She will direct interior teams across the Milwaukee office’s practice groups.
Bautista has more than 16 years’ experience leading projects for significant local clients, including Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension, Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW Health, Milwaukee Public Library, Kerry, and Schreiber Foods.
She has additional expertise working nationally with forward-thinking healthcare clients, including MetroHealth’s Campus Transformation in development in Cleveland; Mass General Brigham’s Ambulatory Furniture standards in Boston; SSM Health’s St Louis University Hospital in Missouri; Owensboro Health’s Regional Hospital in Kentucky; and Virtua Voorhees Hospital in New Jersey.
Serving as both a mentor and leader, she brings deep knowledge and a distinct perspective to her approach to design.
“Kate has demonstrated the ability to mentor and lead through local and national work on some of our most innovative and largest projects,” said Paula Verboomen, AIA, LEED AP, Vice President and Design Principal at HGA. “She brings a rich, diverse view of our practices that has shaped her approach to design.”
Bautista has a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined HGA in 2005.