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Raphael Sperry

AIA, LEED AP

Simon & Associates

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Raphael Sperry, AIA, LEED® AP, provides strategic planning and LEED consulting at Simon & Associates, Inc. Raphael’s projects include high-rise development, industrial and infrastructure properties, facilities for higher education, and LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance.

Raphael was appointed by the mayor to the City of San Francisco’s Existing Buildings Energy Efficiency Task Force in 2009, and has served as the appointed public representative of the Municipal Green Buildings Task Force since 2004. Raphael also contributes to the public interest as a current board member and past president of Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility, where he conceived of and directs the Prison Design Boycott campaign, and as a director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). In 2004 he was the lead author of the 2004 San Mateo Countywide Guide to Sustainable Building. In 2000, he was the architectural project manager for Ridge Vineyards’ 17,000 sq. ft. straw-bale winery in Healdsburg, California—the largest straw-bale building in the country at that time.

He is a licensed architect in California and holds a Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture.

Cory Vanderpool

Executive Director

The Green Link Alliance

Lisa-Michell Galley

Founder & Managing Pricipal

Galley Eco Capital

Ron Bernstein

Executive Director

LonMark International

Ilana Judah

Manager of Sustainability

FX Fowle

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Ilana Judah joined FXFOWLE in 2008 with over 10 years as a senior architect leading teams and developing sustainable solutions for projects of various scales and typologies. Her experience ranges from advanced project research on ecological systems, LEED analysis and coordination, energy modeling, and expertise on energy codes. Her role at the firm is to further advance knowledge and implementation of environmentally responsible design.

Ms. Judah works with design teams to develop comprehensive sustainable strategies and solutions, including meeting the requirements of LEED and other certification metrics. She has guided implementation of sustainable strategies on projects such as the Jacob J. Javits Convention Center and the Housatonic River Museum. She is currently working with the design team on the renovation of Warren Hall at Cornell University.

As leader of FXFOWLE’s sustainability workgroup Team Green, Ms. Judah directs the group’s research on the latest advancements in green technologies, products, policies, and philosophies. She led implementation of the firm’s use of environmental performance modeling software and is also responsible for green education and LEED accreditation amongst employees. She has helped increase the number of LEED AP’s to 85% of the firm’s professional staff.

Additionally, Ms. Judah is participating on Mayor Bloomberg’s New York City Green Codes Task Force on the Climate Change Adaptation Committee. She is a board member of Green Collaborative, is a member of ASHRAE’s New York Sustainability Committee, and represents FXFOWLE as a founding member of InTERRAction. She is an active member of the New York Chapter of the USGBC and a former executive board member of the Canada Green Building Council, Quebec Chapter.

Ms. Judah is a graduate of McGill University’s School of Architecture. She is a Registered Architect and a LEED accredited professional.

Matt Golden

President/CEO

Sustainable Spaces

Dan Winters

Managing Principal

Evolution Partners

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Mr. Winters is the managing principal of Evolution Partners, an advisory firm specializing in highperformance, environmentally responsible real estate projects. He works with leading real estate developers and owners across North America to financially maximize a client’s “return on sustainability” by triangulating and coordinating the market positioning/messaging, leasing, and financing perspectives which includes debt and equity capital raising for green projects. He also consults with select real estate firms on both corporate strategy and asset-specific strategy concerning sustainability-related aspects, then works directly with executive management on strategy implementation.

Mr. Winters was the first, and remains one of the few, LEED-accredited financial professionals. He is contributing author to two ULI textbooks including “Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business” and “Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development”, has authored numerous trade journal articles on green building finance, and served as special advisor to Building Design & Construction’s white paper “Green Buildings and the Bottom Line”.

As a green building finance expert, he has been a keynote speaker and/or panelist at industry events across North America including the ULI’s national conferences on sustainability, Canadian Real Estate Forum, Greenbuild, ULI / NAIOP / USGBC regional conferences, the Green Building Alliance, BetterBricks, Cascadia Northwest, NAREC, Canada USGBC, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston among many others. He is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Real Estate Council and is the past Vice Chairman of the Board for the USGBC Baltimore Chapter.

In addition, he was a member of the District of Columbia Mayor’s Green Building Task Force which worked to successfully pass the DC Green Building Act. He is the primary author of the Capital Markets Partnership’s Green Building Underwriting Standard and originated the CMP Green Score criteria for asset underwriting which incorporates green building attributes into investment banking origination and rating agency underwriting processes.

He was formerly a member of the Real Estate Private Equity Group at the Frank Russell Company which manages or consults to over $2.5 trillion in investments and is one of the largest institutional pension fund consulting firms in the world. While at Russell, Mr. Winters developed qualitative and quantitative assessments of numerous real estate private equity management firms regarding investment strategies, vehicle structure, management team quality, and overall execution capabilities while placing in excess of $650 million in client capital. He was a voting member of the Russell Real Estate Operating Committee and provided internal institutional portfolio management including real estate strategy, portfolio reallocation, and investment manager selection to various Russell real estate funds.

Following Russell, he was Founder/CEO of a venture-capital backed internet e-commerce company which was an early entrant into the fast-growing internet arena in the late-90’s. In addition, he worked at one of the largest real estate finance and investment intermediaries, the top-producing office of CBRE / LJ Melody in Washington, DC, which did in excess of $2 billion in debt and equity financings in 2004/05.

He earned his Masters in Real Estate Finance and Development from Harvard Graduate School of Design an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and a BS in Consumer Behavior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Real Estate Development program instructing a graduate practicum course on sustainability, and is a guest speaker at Georgetown University.

Peter Liu

Founder & Vice Chairman

New Resource Bank

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Peter Liu is the founder and vice chairman of New Resource Bank, an innovative community bank in San Francisco, California that is rapidly growing while promoting green and sustainable resources. Opened in 2006, the bank has created new financing and banking options for clean energy projects, green buildings and green businesses. Mr. Liu was previously at Credit Suisse and Chase Manhattan Bank, where he focused on energy and project finance. He completed $8 billion in energy sector project financing and provided financial advisory on strategic transactions in the power and renewable energy sectors. He has also been an air quality regulator at the California Air Resources Board and an engineer with the Chevron Corporation. Mr. Liu is the co-founder and Vice President of the board of the China U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance and he serves on the boards of the California Climate Action Reserve, the Christensen Fund, the Roots of Change Fund, and Marin Organic. Mr. Liu has also served as a clean technology investment advisory board member to the California Public Employees Retirement Systems and the California Teachers Retirement Systems, the largest and second largest pension funds in the U.S. He is currently serving on the Mayor of San Francisco Existing Building Efficiency Task Force, after completing service on the City’s Green Building Task Force, which developed a set of new legislations for green building incentives and codes. Mr. Liu graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in chemical engineering and materials science. He also graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School with a Masters in public affairs.

Leanne Tobias

Managing Principal, LEED AP

Malachite LLC

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Leanne Tobias is founder and managing principal of Malachite LLC, www.malachitellc.com, an advisory firm that specializes in sustainable or green real estate on a global basis. Services provided by Malachite LLC include green real estate investment, finance, management and certification support for funds, property owners and policy makers.

Leanne brings over 20 years of institutional real estate investment, development and management experience to the sustainable real estate field, and is one of the few real estate investment experts who has been designated a LEED Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green Building Council. In addition to her work with private clients, Leanne is an advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Finance Advisory Board, to the Green Building Finance Consortium and to Washington, D.C.’s Green Building Task Force. Leanne is also the author of the Urban Land Institute’s new book on green office renovation, and is a frequent speaker on green real estate development, renovation, investment and finance.

Leanne was previously managing director of the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a multibillion dollar commercial real estate equity fund, and headed the real estate operations of the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust. She also directed programs for capital markets lenders, banks, pension funds and life insurance companies at the Mortgage Bankers Association. Leanne holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a Master’s of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Michael Hanneken

President

Real Estate Strategies & Solutions (RESS)

Diane Vrkic

Global Chief Operating Officer of Energy and Sustainability Services

Jones Lang LaSalle

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Diane Vrkic serves as global Chief Operating Officer of Energy and Sustainability Services (ESS) at Jones Lang LaSalle. She played a pivotal role in the development of the firm’s energy and sustainability product and service offerings and guides efforts to integrate services such as energy management, project management, property and facility management and consulting as those services pertain to sustainability. She serves as the firm’s primary ESS executive on innovative assignments, such as the analytical process for the energy retrofit at the Empire State Building.
Prior to the formation of Energy and Sustainability Services, Ms. Vrkic served as Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Strategic Consulting Group, where she advised corporate clients on opportunity assessments, labor-based portfolio strategies and workplace solutions strategies to reduce operational costs and enhance efficiency. Before joining Jones Lang LaSalle she was a Manager with Accenture, where she advised clients on process reengineering initiatives, organizational design changes and sales optimization plans.
Ms. Vrkic earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor of science from Fordham University. She holds a certificate in Public Management from Stanford University and the equivalent of a Masters in Human Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University.

Peter Belisle

President of Project and Development Services

Jones Lang LaSalle

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Peter Belisle, President of Project and Development Services at Jones Lang LaSalle, oversees more than 1,200 project managers across the country who are collectively responsible for construction management assignments with a total construction value of $5 billion annually. Jones Lang LaSalle is consistently ranked among the world’s 10 largest construction management firms. In the Americas region led by Mr. Belisle, Project and Development Services has experience with more than 75 completed and current LEED certification assignments for new construction, existing building and commercial interiors, including the Empire State Building energy retrofit, the country’s first Platinum LEED new construction high-rise, the first LEED certified building in Latin America and several corporate headquarters assignments, such as the LEED Platinum certification of McDonald’s headquarters campus.

Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Mr. Belisle served as Director of Development and Program Management for The Walt Disney Company, where he successfully completed over $230 million of development internationally. He received an M.B.A. in real estate and finance from The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as a bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA. Mr. Belisle is registered as an Engineer in Training (E.I.T.), is a Council Member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and a member of the American Society of Healthcare Engineers (ASHE) and CoreNet Global.

Meade Boutwell

SVP

CB Richard Ellis