ZGF Names Marissa Tasho as Chief Marketing Officer

ZGF Names Marissa Tasho as Chief Marketing Officer

News March 09, 2026

Tasho will lead the firm’s marketing, communications, and business development strategy, strengthening the client experience and advancing ZGF’s design legacy.

ZGF has appointed Marissa Tasho as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, she will guide the firm’s integrated marketing, communications, and business development efforts across its North American offices, aligning strategy to support ZGF’s long-standing commitment to sustainability and design excellence.

With nearly two decades of experience in the architecture and design industry, Tasho brings a data-informed approach to connecting brand, client engagement, and pursuit strategy to strengthen market positioning and improve how firms pursue and deliver complex work for clients.

“ZGF’s practice has always grown out of close collaboration with our clients and a deep commitment to design innovation. Marissa’s leadership will help strengthen those partnerships and ensure the next generation of our work continues to support our clients and the communities they serve.”
Sharron van der Meulen, ZGF Managing Partner

Tasho most recently served as Global Pursuit Director for the Architecture and Urbanism Division at Arcadis, formerly CallisonRTKL. As Director of Marketing at CallisonRTKL, she helped reshape the firm’s global marketing function, building multidisciplinary teams and integrated platforms to improve client experience and enable strategic growth across regions and sectors.

“ZGF’s legacy of design excellence is a powerful foundation,” said Tasho. “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to support the great work happening across the firm and ensure our clients feel the value of what we’re building together.”

Since its inception, ZGF has delivered transformative projects across North American markets and project types. As the firm continues to advance integrated, ambitious, and sustainable design at scale, recent work includes the reimagining of Portland International Airport with a landmark mass timber roof, the grand opening of Amazon’s 2.1M square-foot second headquarters that provides a new model for corporate campuses, and the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center museum, soon to be the only place in the world for the public to see a space shuttle poised for launch.