BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
Dr. Vicki Flaherty
Dr.Vicki Flaherty, Chair of the GBCI Board, is an industrial/organizational psychologist at IBM. She is the Talent Manager of IBM’s Cloud Computing Enterprise Learning Solutions. She has also led variety of talent programs in the areas of onboarding, leadership development, coaching, mentoring, and career development. In 2010, she participated in IBM’s prestigious Corporate Service Corps program, providing strategic planning and promoting R&D in an emerging market. In 2009, she contributed to the creation of the IBM Competencies, travelling the world to lead focus groups that defined high performance. In 2007, she won an IBM Ovation Award for design and development of a global career framework. She was instrumental in launching IBM’s Storage Solutions certification portfolio and led various quality initiatives for the Professional Certification Program from IBM. Over her career, she has helped clients from a variety of industries including finance, technology, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, government, and education transform their business via human performance and change management initiatives.
Gail Vittori
Gail Vittori, Vice Chair of the GBCI Board, is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 and where she has worked since 1979. She is the 2010 Immediate Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's Board of Directors. She served as a Sustainable Design Consultant for the Pentagon Renovation Program's Commissioning Team from 1999 to 2006, numerous City of Austin design projects, including Texas' first public sector LEED® certified building, the redevelopment of the 709-acre former Austin airport, including piloting LEED for Neighborhood Development, and the first LEED-Platinum certified hospital in the world, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Ms. Vittori was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She serves on Natural Home's and Environmental Building News' advisory boards. She is co-author, with Robin Guenther FAIA, of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, published by Wiley in 2008, was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine in March 2007 and, with Pliny Fisk III, in Texas Monthly's 35th year anniversary issue (February 2008) in the article '35 People Who Will Shape Our Future'. Ms. Vittori is married to Pliny Fisk III and has two children.
Harry T. Gordon
Harry T. Gordon, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, is Secretary/Treasurer of the GBCI Board and was a founding board member of the U.S. Green Building Council and subsequently co-chairman of the Finance Committee. He has had several roles in the development of the LEED Green Building Rating System, including service as a member of the core committee for the development of LEED-NC v2.2. As a practicing architect for over 35 years, he has used LEED in the design of over two million square feet of building projects. Harry was a founding member of the AIA Committee on The Environment and is a past director/officer of the American Solar Energy Society and other environmental organizations. He is a senior principal of Burt Hill - Stantec and practices in the area of High Performance Green Buildings and Communities.
Members
S. Richard Fedrizzi
Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO andFounding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and CEO ofGBCI, was founder of the World Green Building Council and is now anactive member of its board. He also serves on the board of the UnitedNations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Buildings andConstruction Initiative. Prior to his roles with USGBC and GBCI, Rickwas with United Technologies Corporation (UTC); he then establishedGreen Think, an environmental marketing organization. He serves on theBoard of Directors of the New York Indoor Environmental Quality (NYIEQ)Center and The Environmental Project™, and is an Advisory Council memberfor Discovery Channel’s Planet Green.
Sally Wilson
Sally Wilson, AIA, LEED AP, is the Global Director of Environmental Strategy at CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. Sally, a member of the American Institute of Architects, was the first commercial real estate broker in the United States to become a LEED® Accredited Professional. She has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and currently leads CBRE’s Sustainable Practice Group.
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller, LEED AP, was a Founding Director of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and has been President and CEO of the CaGBC since 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Green Building Council and chaired the LEED BC Steering Committee, which was responsible for the first adaptation of the LEED Rating System outside the United States. Thomas received the 2000 and 2002 Innovation Award from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. In 2008, he became a Fellow of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council.
Ganesh Rao
Ganesh Rao is Managing Director of DQS Holding GmbH, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and President and CEO of UL DQS Inc., a Management Systems Solutions company in Chicago, IL. DQS Holding GmbH oversees a worldwide group of companies offering management systems services in over 40 countries and its majority shareholders include the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), the German Society for Quality (DGQ), and Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL). He is responsible for enhancing independent assessment and management systems services for clients worldwide, including the fulfillment and enhancement of DIN and UL’s public safety mission in the public and private sectors. Ganesh monitors evolving business needs and public policy related to quality, safety, health, and environment to identify areas for partnership in the areas of standards development, conformity assessment, and certification of management systems. He has served on the ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel and as a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the ISO for Energy Management, Social Responsibility, Nanotechnologies, Quality Management Systems, and Environmental Management Systems.