Perkins&Will welcomes Malone to science and technology practice

Manhattan, NY Perkins&Will has welcomed back Matt Malone to lead the Science and Technology practice in its New York and Philadelphia studios. Malone returns to the firm after three years with Taconic Partners, where he served as senior vice president of life science at Elevate Research Properties.

In this new role, Malone will focus on growing Perkins&Will’s science and technology portfolio across the region.

Leading projects that support innovation, research, and discovery. His experience as both a designer and a developer equips him with a firsthand understanding of the opportunities and constraints shaping the future of life science environments.

“Coming back to Perkins&Will feels like a return to my roots — with a wider lens,” said Malone. “I’m returning with a sharper understanding of the economic, technical, and regulatory challenges that our clients are navigating. I’m excited to bring that perspective into design conversations, to help bridge vision with viability.”

While at Taconic Partners, Malone led projects like West End Labs, an award-winning office-to-lab conversion of a former auto facility on Manhattan’s West Side, designed in collaboration with Perkins&Will. Before his time in real estate, he spent nearly five years at Perkins&Will, shaping transformative research spaces such as Innolabs (NYC), the Hudson Research Center (NYC), and Georgia Tech’s Science Square (Atlanta), as well as the Changcheng Haina Incubator at Beijing Huairou Science City, a major science hub in China developed with Schmidt Hammer Lassen.