JONATHAN RODGERS

CEO | FOUNDING DIRECTOR

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Jon is the CEO and founder of atmospheres, a creative digital design studio and BIM consultancy with a focus on innovative technology, architecture, interiors and project management. An all-rounder and natural leader Jon provides the practice with strategic direction, ensuring all projects are successfully executed to the highest quality with his personal touch.

He graduated from the Manchester School of Architecture with 1st class honours, and studied MArch at HKU in 2005. Jon has travelled extensively around Europe and the Far East and delivered some of the most challenging and exciting projects in the Asia Pacific Region; most notably: Vietinbank Hanoi, West Kowloon Cultural District, The Lyric Theatre, HSBC Interiors, HKIA T3, the Organic Waste Treatment Facility, Shatin Central Link, Exhibition Station and Wanchai Swimming Pool.

Jon has been practicing for over 20 years and learned his trade under design heavyweights Sir Roger Stephenson, Sir Norman Foster and Ben Van Berkel; but it was in his time at Arup where he really excelled as project lead. As East Asia BIM champion, implementing new tech, teaching, supporting, leading by example encouraging a collaborative approach Jon helped Arup and their client MTR win 1st place in the international Autodesk 2015 Excellence in Infrastructure Award in Las Vegas. Jon has managed multidiscipplinary teams and successfully co-ordinated one of the most complex projects in the world.

Jon is a former international waterpolo player, British Champion and England waterpolo Team. He is an avid swimmer; when he is not in the office you will find him at the beach.

CONFERENCES + WORKSHOPS:
Smart Geometry Munich (2008), Barcelona (2010), Copenhagen (2011), Hong Kong (2014) Distributed Intelligence in Design, Manchester (2009) Fabricate + Shape to Fabrication London (2009) Sustaining Identities V+A London (2010)

KEY PROJECTS

ATMOSPHERES
HKIA T3, Studio City, Ocean Plaza, Valley Road, Robinson Road, Mei Sun Lane,
Victory Avenue, Shanghai Street, Upper Brockley Road, Crackington House,
St John’s Strawbale House,
Co-axial Pavilion,
Mexico Emergency Shelter

FOSTER + PARTNERS
Vietinbank Twin Towers Hanoi,
HSBC Interior Renovation HK,
West Kowloon Cultural District,
Vantone Sunny Word Shanghai

ARUP
Shatin Central Link, Exhibition Station,
South Ventilation Building +Police Club, Wanchai Swimming Pool +Sports Centre, Organic Waste Treatment Facility

UNSTUDIO
WKCD Lyric Theatre +Artist’s Residence Kuala Lumpar Towers

GAMMON
HKSTP Innocell MiC

SIMPSON HAUGH
Great Jackson Street, City Village

STEPHENSON BELL
Grubbe Messel, Kunsthal, River St, Kersal

ERNEST AXELBANK

CTO | Digital Engineering Lead

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Engineering leader with 25+ years leading global technology functions, specialising in client advisory, solution design, and digital transformation. Built and grew a 150-person engineering organisation across 7 geographic regions, deployed shared infrastructure platforms that reduced costs by 80%, and drove enterprise-wide AI adoption. Deep experience delivering streaming and media platforms to millions of users, with hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. Comfortable staying hands-on while growing strong leaders who own outcomes independently.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

AI & Gen-AI Strategy: Built an AI center-of-excellence for accelerating AI solution creation, adoption, proliferation, and refinement. Prototyped Gen-AI solutions for market validation. Identified synergies with partners and vendors for go-to-market readiness.

Solution Engineering and Client Advisory: Worked in tandem with Sales to refine solution offerings and qualification criteria. Provided guidance on solution fit and upselling/cross-selling opportunities. Crafted proposals and responses to RFPs/RFIs. Determined impact of acceptance criteria and hard requirements on solution roadmap and delivery plans. Provided consultation and advisory to client accounts on the most appropriate products, solutions, services and approaches to match their needs and expectations.

Platform Engineering Leadership: Built and scaled a 150-person global engineering organization with 7 Engineering Directors across 7 regions; established platform engineering capability, DevOps practices, and engineering standards from the ground up.

Cloud Architecture & DevOps: AWS (EKS, Media Services, SageMaker, Bedrock), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform; deployed shared IaaS platform that reduced infrastructure spend by 80%; established CI/CD pipelines (Argo CD, Drone CI, GitHub Actions) for reliable, automated delivery.

Engineering Excellence & Reliability: Established inner-source methodology with code quality standards, analytics, and automated gates; set high standards for observability, incident response, and continuous improvement across distributed teams. Improved engineering workforce utilization by 30% through up-skilling and career development.

RUTH DOMINGO NOLASCO

ARCHITECTURAL BIM SPECIALIST

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Creative and detail-oriented BIM Architectural Designer & Modeler with over 20 years of experience, seamlessly integrating architectural design with advanced BIM technology. Specializes in transforming conceptual designs into inteligent data-rich models (LOD 300–500) while maintaining a strong aesthetic vision and technical precision. Adept at parametric modeling and design development documentation, bridging the gap between creative design and technical execution.

PROJECTS

HKSTP High Rise Development
Interiors at Galaxy Macau
Queen’s College Historical Building Reconstruction
Two Storey Private House with Roof Deck
Public Housing at Anderson Road Quarry Site
Residential Development at Nkil 6591, Kai Tak
Infrastructure, Tuen Mun - Chek Lap Kok Link