10/15/2011
JoAnne Petersen is from a Colorado pioneer family (Hotchkiss) that came to Colorado in the 1860's. She graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelors in Interior Design, and thereafter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. In the Silicon Valley she became one of of four partners in a design firm offering planning, interior design, and architecture for commercial and residential clients.
After several years, JoAnne formed her own interior design firm where in which she was responsible for planning, design, and project coordination for approximately 3 million square feet of real estate.
During her time in California, The Business Journal listed both firms in the top 10 design firms in the Bay Area. As a result, her client list grew to include Motorola, Applied Materials, Intel, Silicon Graphics, Tandem Computer, and Hewlett Packard.
