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Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Regenerative Ventures was established in 1995, with the
founding of its strategic green building consulting firm, WorldBuild. The company's mission is to accelerate global transformation through green building profitability.
The company focuses on firms engaged in the built environment. It has served as a guiding beacon for over one hundred clients
and many award-winning green buildings during its 13 year tenure. Buildings contribute to 40 percent of global
warming, 20 percent of our landfill waste, and consume a significant percentage of our fresh water and non-renewable materials.
The indoor environment has been shown to greatly impact our health and productivity. Buildings are a destination, and therefore
impact transportation and urban planning. They also contribute to the sustainable fabric of our communities and land planning.
If you want to change the world, then buildings must be front and center in the solution. Even more important, is changing
our individual and corporate thinking to embrace "green" as the definition of value. Regenerative Ventures specializes
in helping its portfolio companies enhance their "value" and profitability through green building initiatives. Regenerative Ventures capitalizes on the unparalleled brand, network and integrative
multidisciplinary and visionary experience of its CEO, David Gottfried.
David Gottfried
Managing Director
David
Gottfried started Regenerative Ventures and its consulting arm, WorldBuild in 1995, after founding the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993, and serving as its first staff President. USGBC has been quoted as the leading global green building organization,
having the greatest impact on climate change. In 1998 Gottfried invented and incubated the World Green Building Council, now with established and emerging green building councils in approximately 50 countries. Collectively, the world's green
building councils have likely done more for climate change reduction than any organization. USGBC is considered the fastest
growing non-profit in the world, now with almost 20,000 organizational members and 80 U.S. chapters. Gottfried
received his degree in Engineering & Resource Management from Stanford University and is a regular lecturer for Stanford’s
Civil Engineering Department, as well as a member of the University's Sustainable Built Environment Advisory Board. He is
the author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life. Mr. Gottfried has won numerous awards and delivered hundreds of keynote speeches in over a dozen countries. He is internationally acknowledged as one of the foremost founders of the global green building
movement, and wrote the white paper for the LEED® Green Building Rating System, the acknowledged standard for green building.
Gottfried has published dozens of articles and conducted hundreds of keynote speeches worldwide.
Gottfried is the author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life, published in 2003. He is now writing
the sequel: Greening My Life, which will be out in late 2009.
David Gottfried Bio (PDF)
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