The Fabric Team
Scott Domini Ehlert
CEO / Head of Design
Scott is the founder of Fabric Workshop. After spending 12 years as a strategic consultant to CEOs of the largest companies in the construction and real estate finance industries. With a background in systems strategy and design, he connected the dots between California’s housing shortage with its increasing climate and wildfire crises. Scott launched Fabric in 2018 to bring mass timber construction to California, seeing the material as a tool uniquely capable of impacting all three existential challenges.
Mark Little
Director of Product Innovation
Mark has a multidisciplinary background in Architecture, Product Design and Design Strategy with over 30 years of experience designing the products, environments and customer experiences that have defined brands like Apple, Google, Nike, Tesla, Virgin, Autodesk, Dolby and others. As Director of Product Innovation, Mark is leading the research, design and development of the Fabric Workshop ecosystem of products and services that will define Mass Timber as a mainstream solution for our built environment.
Chip Huck
Director of Project Delivery
Chip has an all-encompassing background in Real Estate Development management, from site analysis and acquisition through site development and disposition. Whether a master planned community or single building, Chip focuses a development team around creating a sense of place and a feeling of home. By incorporating the efficient design of the Fabric Building System into client based and in-house projects, Fabric adds the project elements of time and cost efficiencies with project delivery.
Kurt Gumerman
Director of Manufacturing & Ops
As the Project and Operations Manager of Katerra's Spokane-based CLT factory, Kurt is one of the few people in North America who has hands-on experience planning and operations of a ground-up mass timber manufacturing facility. Kurt is managing all aspects of Fabric’s manufacturing strategy and industry outreach, ensuring our efforts are successful.
Robert Malczyk
Director of Engineering Services
Robert has over 25 years of experience in Mass Timber. Robert is a long-standing member of the O86 "Engineering Design in Wood" code committee, and an original member of the recently formed ANSI/APA PRG 320: Standard for Performance Rated Cross-Laminated Timber code committee and NRC’s Task Force in Mid-Rise Design. Robert has designed numerous award-winning, architecturally oriented building structures in all major building material, with a particular expertise in timber engineering.
Dylan Cisney
Supply Chain and DfMA Manager
Dylan has spent the previous 13 years managing multi-million dollar ground-up projects as a design-focused General Contractor. Dylan grew up in the forests of Mendocino, California and saw first hand the often fraught balance between environmental and forestry interests. As a lifelong carpenter, builder, and designer Dylan is uniquely positioned to steer the development of timber building materials and systems from overlooked wood species.
Josh Harrison
Head of Forestry and Public Policy
Josh is co-director of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, a research institution at the University of California, Santa Cruz, leads the Living Forests Project working with the USFS in California, and is Director of the Wood Utilization Team for the Eastern Sierra and Western Nevada, overseeing 300,000 acres of landscape and focusing on ways to build a regenerative circular forest products industry in California.
Kathi Zull
Design Services Manager
Kathi is a passionate architectural designer with a diverse set of skills and a keen eye for visual detail. She is deeply committed to creating exceptional and human-centred designs that enrich and improve the daily lives of those who use them. She has already achieved success in several international design competitions, with a focus on designing modular wooden constructions as a means of contributing to climate neutrality. As a Design Associate, she creates a visual language that communicates Fabric’s identity.
