Presented by Samir Mokashi
1 AIA LU
Brought to you by the AIA Oregon Small Firms Exchange
This seminar will share the lessons learned leading a high performing professional service firm through recession and COVID and mentoring other business owners over the last decade and half. Samir will use examples from his business and of other businesses and business models that he evaluated as he figured out how to grow his firm. He will explain his analysis including explaining why he made the choices he made and the reason he rejected some of the strategies even though they offered better financial results.
Architecture is a highly competitive business environment where you must stand out from the crowd. Samir will share simple strategies that worked for him and led to the fast growth of his business. Beware that these strategies are easy to understand but hard to put into practice. Bad habits picked up unknowingly and bad advice received from so-called experts keeps most of us from doing what we need to do to be successful. He will share concrete examples of what has worked and why, then show you how to adopt those strategies to achieve growth, increase profits, and reduce risks in your business.
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Learning objectives:
Learn the four foundations of successful business practice.
How to open a second office. It requires different strategies than the first office.
Building the right workflow processes to deliver value.
Beyond utilization - Business KPI’s for a profitable business.
Speaker:
Samir Mokashi
Founding Principal, Business Millionaire Club
Samir Mokashi got his undergrad in architecture from India and master’s in architecture from the University of Oregon. He worked for 14 years in a large AEC firm and then embarked on his entrepreneurial journey which is still going strong after almost 20 years. His first venture was as a partner in Evergreen Engineering, an A/E firm in Hillsboro Oregon, which led to co-founding Code Unlimited (CU) with his wife in the basement of their Portland Home. Together they grew CU to a multi-million-dollar business with five offices across the pacific northwest. CU won several 100 fastest growing business awards in multiple states and an INC 5000 award nationally. In 2022 Jensen Hughes, a global code consulting firm, acquired Code Unlimited. In 2025 after retirement from Jensen Hughes and code consulting, Samir founded Business Millionaire Club to share the lessons learned of starting, growing, and successfully exiting a professional services firm with other business owners.