People

Brian Hoke

Brian Hoke is Principal of the firm. Prior to founding Bentley & Hoke in 2000, Brian served as Dean of Students, Director of Technology, and Chair of the Computer and Information Science Department at Manlius Pebble Hill School, a PreK-12 independent day school in DeWitt, New York. Previously, Brian taught at Institut auf dem Rosenberg, an international board school in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Brian chairs the Civic Engagement Task Force of 40 Below, sits on the Syracuse/Onondaga County Youth Board, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Come Home to Syracuse program. He volunteers with a variety of Central New York organizations, including Enable, AIDS Community Resources, and Manlius Pebble Hill School. Previously, Brian sat on the Board of Directors of Leadership Greater Syracuse and served as Co-Chair of the Youth Leadership Greater Syracuse program from 2002 - 2005.

Brian was named in 2002 as one of Syracuse's "40 Under 40" business and community leaders. He holds degrees from Hamilton and Dartmouth colleges.

Amy Andrews

Amy Andrews is an Associate at the firm. Her previous employment experience includes work at Envisage International Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida, and Miami’s Dotmarketing, Inc. Amy's technical background includes work with XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Linux/Apache web servers.

A native of Vestal, New York, Amy earned a Master's Degree in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology in February, 2007, with concentrations in Website and Multimedia Development, Electronic Commerce, and Technology Management with an overall GPA of 3.92. She holds a BS in Telecommunications from SUNY Institute of Technology and an AAS Degree in Information Technology from SUNY College of Technology at Delhi.

Conor Branagan

Conor Branagan is a Summer Associate at the firm. Conor was graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill in 2007 and, after attending a year at University of Wisconsin-Madison as a computer science major, is headed to SUNY-New Paltz to continue undergraduate work in computer science.

Conor's skills include PHP, XHTML, and CSS, among others. He will be working this summer to write code, manage projects, research best practices, and handle search engine optimization campaigns. We welcome him to the firm.