Complex sentence: Lyles was the lead designer and partner with Stork & Lyles, LBC&W's predecessor in Columbia, and in 1946, William Carlisle, T.J. Bissett, and Louis Wolff joined Stork & Lyles as associates.
Split into simpler sentences: Lyles was the lead designer and partner with Stork & Lyles, LBC&W's predecessor in Columbia. In 1946, William Carlisle, T.J. Bissett, and Louis Wolff joined Stork & Lyles as associates.