Michael Krauss was elected to a two-year term, while CEO Rick Lincicome, AIA, Bill Crockett, AIA, and Carol Sakoian were re-elected to two-year terms.

The moves come on the heels of double-digit sales growth for the nearly 100-year-old company. Sales were up 54 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to Lincicome.

Here’s more on each of the recently-elected board members:

Krauss is president and managing principal of Chicago-based Market Strategy Group, a consulting firm with clients ranging from Accenture to Aon and Jones Lang LaSalle. He writes the popular “Tech Matters” column for the Chicago Sun’Times and currently serves as Co’Chair of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Council of Technology Advisors. He served for four years on the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business lecturing in the school’s innovative New Products Laboratory. He also taught on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Graham School. Krauss holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Lincicome has been with Ellerbe Becket more than 20 years. Prior to serving as CEO, he was the firm’s president from 1998 to 2001. He also has served as the company’s president of architecture and director of the Washington, D.C., and New York offices. He earned bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Illinois School of Architecture and later taught at his alma mater as an assistant professor of design.

Crockett is the firm’s national director of sports and serves as managing principal of the firm’s Kansas City and San Francisco offices. He has been responsible for leading some of the firm’s most challenging-and most successful-projects during his 16-plus year tenure with the firm. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University. He serves on the firm’s Management Committee and has represented Ellerbe Becket as a featured speaker at industry conferences on topics such as sustainable design and value engineering strategies in sports facility planning.

Sakoian has been a board member for 10 years. She is an executive with Scholastic Inc., the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and educational materials. Her current focus is to develop Scholastic’s business in the Middle East and to promote literacy in developing countries. She has a Ph.D in history and politics and is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The newly-elected members join John M. “Jock” Holliman, Mark C. Zweig and Jon Buggy, AIA, in rounding out the seven-member board. The board makeup includes three Ellerbe Becket employees and four outside directors.

An innovator since its founding in 1909, Ellerbe Becket is a leader in architecture, interiors, engineering and the construction industry with office locations worldwide.

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