David Gottfried is the Managing Director of Regenerative Ventures. The firm focuses exclusively on green building technology and strategic consulting services. Gottfried serves as a Board and Advisory Board member to ten venture funded green tech startups, helping them to expand their business and profit in the high growth green building marketplace.
Gottfried is the CEO of WorldBuild Consulting, a subsidiary of Regenerative Ventures.Since 1994, WorldBuild has advised many of the U.S.’s leading green building organizations and their projects across the many sectors of the built environment. The entity provides strategic green management consulting services, treating each client as an exclusive “partner” and one of its portfolio companies. Its specialty is the greening of companies, products and real estate portfolios – through invention of creative programs and initiatives. The company has worked with hundreds of leading organizations that strive to lessen their reliance on limited natural resources and wasteful practices, while boosting lifecycle based economics and quality of life.
Gottfried has over 25 years of multidisciplinary real estate, consulting and non‐profit experience in the building industry: as a “green” management consultant, Cleantech strategic advisor, real estate investment fund manager and developer, construction manager and founder of the U.S. and World Green Building Councils. The U.S. Green Building Council is the foremost green building organization in the world, now with approximately 25,000 organizational members from all sectors of the building industry, and 78 regional chapters. The World Green Building Council serves as the “UN” for councils being developed in 50 countries. Collectively, as the founder of these organizations, Gottfried has likely done more for reducing carbon dioxide emissions than any other person in the world.
Gottfried received his degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University, and is a regular lecturer for the University and a member of its Sustainable Built Environment Advisory Board. Gottfried has won numerous awards and is the author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life. His personal residence is the highest rated LEED® Platinum home.
