Speaker Bios

Ray Anderson is Founder and Chairman of Interface, the world's largest producer of commercial floor coverings and interior finishes. Interface conducts sales in 110 countries and operates manufacturing facilities on four continents.

Anderson has been lauded by government, environmental and business groups alike and appears as a master commentator on the Sundance Channel's 2007 series, "Big Ideas for a Small Planet." He was named one of Elle magazine's heroes in their 2007 Green Awards coverage and was recently named one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment. He's a sought after speaker and advisor on all ecological issues, including a stint as co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development during President Clinton's administration.

Robert Arron
Senior Director of Real Estate Leasing and Marketing
Vulcan Inc.

As Senior Director of Real Estate Leasing and Marketing, Arron oversees all leasing and marketing efforts, including retail leasing strategy and negotiations, for Vulcan's real estate development projects, with particular focus on properties in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Arron also serves as Vulcan's liaison with the real estate brokerage community and manages relationships with prospective tenants. Arron has more than 22 years of real estate experience leading leasing, listing brokerage, asset management and acquisition and disposition teams in the Washington and California markets.

Chuck Carefoot
Vice President of Construction
Ryan Companies US Inc.

As Vice President of Construction for Ryan, Chuck Carefoot oversees all construction activities including the scheduling, monitoring and mobilizing of the project construction team. He also offers specific expertise in the areas of construction techniques, project coordination, design management, budgeting, quality control, cost effectiveness and safety, which he utilizes daily in managing and training his team of project managers and superintendents. Carefoot has an architectural background and degree in construction management, allowing him to deliver innovative solutions and clear direction to construction challenges.

Theddi Wright Chappell
CEO
Sustainable Values Inc.

Theddi Wright Chappell is CEO of Sustainable Values Inc. and currently serves as Managing Director of Pacific Security Capital's Advisory Services group. She is a LEED Accredited Professional who graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee and holds the CRE, MAI, FRICS and AAPI designations. She has extensive experience in both national and international investment analysis and consulting services, having worked on projects throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and currently serves as the Ambassador for Sustainable Initiatives for the Appraisal Institute (AI).

Dale Dekker, AIA, AICP
Principal
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

As an original founder of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, Dale has more than 25 years experience as a registered architect and planner. His extensive experience includes neighborhood revitalization projects, award winning school designs, historic renovations, mixed use community developments, high tech, one-of-a-kind research facilities, creative and functional commercial office buildings and socially responsible designs of assisted living facilities for the elderly.

Dale has become an industry leader by bringing green building to a forefront in his community. His firm, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini has designed several green buildings that have received recognition from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) including Dekker/Perich/Sabatini's 85,000 square foot corporate office headquarters which was honored with a double LEED Gold Certification for Interiors and Core and Shell.

George Denise, CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA
General Manager
Cushman & Wakefield for Adobe Systems Incorporated

George Denise is General Manager for facilities for Cushman & Wakefield, overseeing Adobe Systems Incorporated's North American properties, a portfolio of 17 properties totaling 1.6 million square feet. Adobe's three headquarters buildings in San Jose, California have all been certified as green buildings through the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program for existing buildings (LEED-EB) at the Platinum level, the highest level achievable. Denise is also Western Region Chairman for Cushman & Wakefield's National Energy Committee and a sustainability specialist and has been a property manager for 27 years, working for Cushman & Wakefield for the past 17 years.

Edan Dionne
Director, Corporate Environmental Affairs
IBM Corporation

Edan Dionne is Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs at IBM Corporation. IBM's Corporate Environmental Affairs staff sets the company's global strategy and oversees its programs and performance worldwide in environment, energy and climate, product and process environmental stewardship. She joined IBM in 1983 as an environmental engineer at a semiconductor plant in the general technology division. She became part of IBM's corporate environmental affairs staff in 1990. Prior to assuming her current position, her experience included managing a wide range of environmental and climate protection programs, partnership with others in industry, the USEPA and nongovernmental organizations.

John Divall
Senior Vice President
Liberty Property Trust

John DiVall serves as Senior Vice President and City Manager of Liberty Property Trust's Arizona office. DiVall started the office for Liberty Property Trust in January of this year. Prior to opening Liberty's Arizona office, DiVall ran operations for Liberty Property Trust in Wisconsin and was instrumental in opening Liberty Property Trust's Chicago office. He has developed numerous award-winning LEED certified projects over the last several years including JohnsonDiversy's new distribution center in Racine, WI which is the largest LEED certified warehouse in the United States and recently won NAIOP's National Green Building of the Year Award.

David A. Eijadi, FAIA
Principal
The Weidt Group

David A. Eijadi, FAIA, is a principal at The Weidt Group who heads consulting development practices for sustainable design and high performance buildings including daylighting design, energy conservation and LEED® certification projects in the Midwest and Southwestern United StatesEijadi is a founding member of a USGBC Mississippi Headwaters chapter in Minnesota and a LEED Accredited Professional with 29 years of experience in environmentally appropriate design. Under his direction, projects in Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado and elsewhere have included more than 100 million square feet of construction.

Courtney France
CEO
France Sustainable Solutions Inc.

Courtney France, EIT, LEED AP, is the former Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Coordination Services Team Leader for Architectural Energy Corporation in Boulder, Colo. While at AEC she worked on more than 200 projects around the world applying the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system, from project inception to owner occupancy.

Now part of her own sustainable development consulting firm, France Sustainable Solutions, Courtney consults nationally with owners, developers, contractors and design firms to share her LEED project application experience. Prior to sustainable consulting, Courtney worked with general contractor DPR Construction on the west coast and in Denver.

Grant French
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Swinerton

As Corporate Sustainability Manager for Swinerton, Grant French provides data and intelligence to stimulate and support the successful pursuit and execution of the company's green and LEED® projects. In addition, French provides input in the RFQ and Proposal Process and also serves as a green resource throughout project delivery.

Peter Garver
Vice President of Development Services
Corporate Office Properties Trust

Peter Garver is Vice President of Development Services for COPT Development and Construction Services LLC, a division of Corporate Office Properties Trust. He is responsible for the oversight of design and development for the company. Garver has spearheaded COPT's efforts to build environmentally responsible buildings and as a result the company was awarded NAIOP's Green Building Award in 2005 and the USGBC's Green Leadership Award in both 2005 and 2006. Garver is a licensed architect who holds a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia.

Doug Gatlin
Director, LEED® for Existing Buildings/Portfolio Initiatives
U.S. Green Building Council

Doug Gatlin joined the US Green Building Council in 2006 as Director of LEED for Existing Buildings and the Council's new Portfolio Initiative. He has 15 years of experience in energy and environmental policy and has worked on climate change response strategies and voluntary pollution prevention programs for most of his career. Prior to joining the Council, he worked for nearly 10 years at US EPA, where he served most recently as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Associate Administrator.

Rory Gopaul
Director of Business Development
Carbon Solutions Group

Rory Gopaul is responsible for new business development at Carbon Solutions Group. Gopaul specializes in carbon inventory and risk management, as well as carbon offset and neutrality. Prior to becoming involved in environmental commodities markets he was a proprietary energies and currencies derivatives trader at the Chicago Board of Trade.

Lois Grobert
Sustainability Program Manager
Citi

Lois Grobert has more than 25 years experience within the construction and specification industry and has been with Smith Barney and Citi Real Estate since 1997.

In 2007 Grobert accepted a new challenge as Sustainability Program Manager. In this role she is coordinating the implementation of environmental programs on a global level. As the main liaison with U.S. Green Building Council, Grobert is currently focused on proposing efficient processes and educational programs within the LEED program. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and is a member of the Construction Users Roundtable Technology committee.

Dan Heinfeld
President
LPA Inc.

Dan Heinfeld has been the partner-in-charge of design for LPA since 1986 and is responsible for overall design direction for the firm. Heinfeld has made sustainable design the focus of his career and his firm. Currently, 75 percent of LPA's 240 individuals are LEED accredited, and the firm has created LPA University to educate staff, consultants and clients about existing and emerging green technologies, programs and issues. Since 1986, LPA has made sustainability the focus of the firm and currently has more than twenty projects seeking LEED certification for Higher Education, K-12, Corporate, Civic and Developer clients.

Tia Heneghan
Director - Sustainable Facilities
CTG Energetics Inc.

Tia Heneghan has more than 25 years of experience in the built environment and has held positions at virtually every level of facilities management. Heneghan brings a pragmatic perspective to greening existing facilities and a broad facilities background, having worked on both public and private sector projects. She was responsible for the first LEED-EB v2.0 certification as well as the first LEED-EB v2.0 Platinum building. She has worked on more than 10 LEED-EB v2.0 certification efforts. A registered Professional Engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional, she served on the Federal Energy Management Advisory Council (FEMAC) and the LEED EB core committee. As director of CTG Energetics' Sustainable Facilities program, she heads the firm's LEED EB team nationwide.

Kevin James
Vice President - Carbon Markets
Climate Change Capital

Kevin James is a Vice President in the Carbon Markets team at CCC responsible for the development of CDM methodologies. Before joining CCC, Kevin was one of the principal founders and certified energy manager of the U.S. carbon company Quality Tonnes (QT). James' efforts with QT helped establish it as one of the premier Clean Development Mechanism/Joint Implementation methodology and project development companies in the world. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and national, state and local governments in more than 30 countries to inventory GHG emissions develop emission reduction strategies and implement greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.

Scott Kelly, AIA, LEED AP
Principal
Re:Vision Architecture

Scott Kelly is a principal at Re:Vision Architecture, an architecture and planning firm committed to re-visioning and restoring the balance between natural and built environments. Beginning his career with historic preservation and adaptive re-use projects, Kelly became interested in the building elements and methods that cause buildings to endure. He was an early adopter of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED benchmarking system and has worked on more than 100 LEED projects around the nation, including several platinum level projects. His work continues with several "living and zero energy" projects.

Edmund P. Klimek, AIA
Principal
KSS Architects

Edmund Klimek's focus on project leadership and design within the office covers a broad spectrum of work from complex renovations to challenging new construction representing every client type. His "hands on" style of working has allowed him to develop areas of special expertise, including corporate architecture, industrial and warehouse architecture and municipal architecture. His work has allowed KSS to become recognized as the regional expert in these fields.

Doug Lawrence
Managing Director
JP Morgan Real Estate

Douglas P. Lawrence, managing director, is a Portfolio Manager of the JP Morgan Urban Renaissance Property Fund for JP Morgan Asset Management - Real Estate. Lawrence has 23 years of industry experience. Prior to this role, Douglas was a Client Portfolio Manager for JPMIM wherein he was responsible for helping clients design and implement their real estate portfolios. An employee of JPMAM-Real Estate since July 1997, he was previously a senior asset manager responsible for managing more than four million square feet of real estate assets. He won nine national and regional awards in this role for JPMAM - Real Estate.

Dr. Malcolm Lewis
President
CTG Energetics Inc.

Dr. Malcolm Lewis is president and founder of CTG Energetics, a nationwide consultancy specializing in sustainability, energy efficiency and green communities. He has more than 30 years experience in engineering design and the analysis of energy-using systems in buidings. CTG has been involved in close to 150 green buildings in the past decade. Dr. Lewis is current chair of the technical and scientific advisory committee for the U.S. Green Building Council.

Martin Melaver
Vice President/CEO
Melaver, Inc.

Martin Melaver is Vice President and CEO of Melaver Inc., a third-generation, family-owned business based in Savannah, Ga. Melaver Inc. currently accounts for about 1 percent of all the LEED certifications in the U.S., including participation in three distinct pilot programs for sustainable development. The company's renovation of The Whitaker Building was one of the first in the nation to be listed on The National Register of Historic Places and to be LEED-certified. Melaver Inc. developed Abercorn Common, the first all-retail LEED shopping center in the country, including the first LEED McDonald's in the U.S. The company has also created one of the first sustainable real estate portfolios in the U.S. and has approximately 13 other LEED projects in the pipeline - office, hotel, residential, and retail - located in various communities throughout the Southeast. Melaver is the author of numerous articles on sustainable building practices as well as a featured/keynote speaker at various conferences and guest lecturer at Harvard, Dartmouth and other academic institutions.

Dr. Norman Miller
Professor
University of San Diego

Dr. Norman Miller is a Professor and the Director of the MSRE Program at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. He is active on the Editorial Boards of several national / international journals and has written numerous academic articles, books and articles for trade publications. Currently he is President of HIRE, the Hoyt Institute for Real Estate, which promotes commercial real estate education and career path awareness. He has also worked extensively with various trade associations and is a NAIOP Distinguished Fellow. Miller received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in Finance and Real Estate with a minor in City and Regional Planning. From 1981 until 2007, he was a Professor at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Real Estate Center.

Scott Muldavin, CRE, FRICS
Executive Director
Green Building Consortium

Scott Muldavin, President of The Muldavin Company Inc., has been a consultant for more than 25 years to many of the nation's leading real estate companies including CalPERS, RREEF, Bank of America and scores of office and industrial investors. Muldavin was a lead real estate partner at Deloitte & Touché and in 2001 co-founded Guggenheim Real Estate, a $4 billion private real estate investment company. In 2006, Muldavin became Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium, a group dedicated to addressing the private sector's need for better valuation and underwriting methods to enable an assessment of sustainable building investment from a "fiduciary" perspective.

Rick Myers
President
Thomas & Mack Development

Richard E. Myers is the President of the Thomas & Mack Development Group, a commercial development company with projects throughout the Las Vegas Valley where he is actively involved in the design, development, and marketing aspects of the company's various projects. In addition to his duties with the Thomas & Mack Development Group, Myers is a Past President of the Southern Nevada Chapter of NAIOP and he continues to serve on the organization's Board of Directors.

Tom Paladino, PE, LEED AP, Associate AIA
President
Paladino & Company

A nationally recognized leader in the green building industry, Tom Paladino is the founder and president of Paladino & Company. Drawing upon his technical expertise in both architecture and engineering, Paladino brings innovative ideas, a building science knowledge and perspective and a proven process for design integration to the more than 250 green and LEED projects he has consulted on. Credited with creating the widely adopted Eco Charrette method, he is also a significant contributor to the development of the LEED Green Building Rating System: his firm conducted the LEED Pilot Program, authored the LEED 2.0 Reference Guide and continues to serve as certification reviewers on behalf of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Paladino is currently Vice Chair of the USGBC Board and was formerly co-chair of the LEED Steering Committee. As a past chair of the Seattle AIA Committee on the Environment, he helped found the City of Seattle Sustainable Building Task Force, a regional initiative that ultimately led to the adoption of LEED by the City of Seattle.

Michael Scott
Principal
Callison

Mike Scott has more than 30 years of experience as a lead designer on many of Callison's most distinguished projects. He specializes in high-rise commercial and mixed-use design and is the firm's resident expert on land use and entitlements. Scott's noted understanding of the technology and economics of large complex projects has given him the unique ability to quickly define solutions suited to the client's goals and budget requirements.

Nick Shufro, B.A., M.B.A., M.E.M.
Manager, Sustainable Business Solutions
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Nick Shufro is an experienced Manager within PricewaterhouseCoopers Sustainable Business Solutions practice. He has more than 17 years of environmental, energy and financial management and performance reporting experience, working and consulting for industry, government, utilities, trade associations and non-governmental agencies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to joining PwC in 2003, Shufro served as Director, Technical Program Development & Implementation for the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership, as the Principal of JulZach Management Services, and as the Manager, Regulatory Affairs and Policy Planning, Environment, Health & Safety for United Technologies Corporation.

Beth L. Studley
Vice President
Holder Construction Company

Beth Holder is a Vice President with Holder Construction Company. She is also the current Chairman for U.S. Green Building Council Atlanta Chapter and has also served on the board for the past six years. She joined Holder in 1994 from the University of Florida where she graduated with a degree in Building Construction. She is a member of Holder Construction Company's Sustainable Services Committee where she assists with the strategic planning and implementation of the company wide environmental initiatives. Studley is a LEED 2.0 accredited professional.

Chuck Sullivan
Managing Director - North American Capital Management
ProLogis

Chuck Sullivan is Managing Director for North American capital management. He has overall responsibility for operations throughout North America, including customer service through ProLogis’ marketing services and client services groups.

Sullivan has been with ProLogis since 1994 in various capacities and was most recently the senior vice president and regional director of operations for the Southeast region. Prior to that assignment, he was based in Monterrey, Mexico as the country officer for ProLogis’ Mexican operations.

Before joining ProLogis, Sullivan was an industrial real estate broker with Cushman & Wakefield. He also worked for Andersen Consulting as a consultant to the manufacturing industry.

Brenna Walraven
Executive Managing Director, National Property Management
USAA Real Estate Company

Brenna Walraven oversees property management for USAA Real Estate Company's national portfolio of approximately 35 million square feet. With more than 20 years experience, and through partnering with Energy Star & USGBC, she has successfully lead a national effort of improved energy management, efficiency and environmental stewardship. Walraven has written numerous articles and participated in numerous speaking engagements on everything from operational excellence and tenant satisfaction to energy efficiency, environmental stewardship and leadership.

Walraven has an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA in Finance, with an emphasis in Real Estate, from the University of Southern California (USC). She presently serves as Chairman and Chief Elected Officer of BOMA International, in part due to her efforts in helping to create the BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP), a national operational excellence training campaign for the commercial real estate industry.

Stephane Wandel
Senior Real Estate Manager
Boeing Realty Services

Stephane Wandel leads Boeing Realty's Development Group, supporting The Boeing Company in its efforts to optimize its facilities and maximinze the value of surplus real estate. He is a member of Boeing Realty's Senior Management Committee and currently leads the planning, entitlement, redevelopment and sale of more than 400 acres of Boeing's surplus property. In this capacity, Wandel led Boeing's sustainable development mandate at its 260-acre Douglas Park mixed-use project in Long Beach.

Rick Weiblen
Vice President
Liberty Property Trust

Richard A. Weiblen is Vice President of Development for Liberty Property Trust. Weiblen oversees the development and construction activities in the Midwest Region which includes Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. He has been directly responsible for overseeing several LEED projects managing office and warehouse developments in the Minneapolis and Milwaukee areas. He has more than 27 years of experience in real estate development construction and management of office, industrial and retail projects.

Sally R. Wilson, AIA, LEED AP
Global Director of Environmental Strategy
CB Richard Ellis

Sally Wilson has more than 20 years of experience in the design of commercial interiors and base building renovations. Wilson is also CBRE's representative to the U.S. Green Building Council and was the first licensed broker designated as LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional). In addition, she served three years on the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Core and Shell steering committee.

In addition to brokerage, Wilson expanded the scope of her company responsibilities even further in 2007, taking on the newly-created role of CBRE's Global Director of Environmental Strategy. In this position, Wilson manages the strategy, implementation and communications related to CBRE's global environmental initiatives. She also serves as the company's primary spokesperson, is the liaison with CBRE's environmental partners and leads the development of the firm's Environmental Sustainability practice group.

Jerry Yudelson, PE, MS, MBA, LEED AP
Principal
Yudelson Associates

Jerry Yudelson leads the consulting team at Yudelson Associates. A former national board member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and a registered professional engineer, he is an expert in the LEED® green building rating system. He provides Yudelson Associates' clients with expert guidance on creating, developing, designing and marketing green building projects and green products, with a focus on market entry strategies. Yudelson has more than 25 years of technical and business experience with renewable energy systems, green building design and environmental planning; leading more than 250 business, technical and marketing consulting assignments.

As a national LEED Faculty member for the U.S. Green Building Council, he has trained more than 2,000 people in the LEED green building system. At Interface Engineering, Yudelson served as an in-house LEED expert and often worked with developers and other clients with facilitating project-specific "eco-charrettes" during early schematic design.