Advisory Board
Charles Angyal
Charles Angyal, formerly chief architect for San Diego Gas & Electric’s new construction energy efficiency programs, has directed energy efficiency programs for over twelve years. He has over 25 years experience in the architecture profession and is a founding board member and current director of the U.S. Green Building Council. Mr. Angyal is a strong supporter of integrative design, optimizing technologies, and development of high performance building delivery. As a licensed architect in the State of California, Mr. Angyal has been a member of the American Institute of Architects, Illuminating Engineering Society, Association of Energy Engineers, Construction Specification Institute, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Ira Chaleff
Ira Chaleff is the author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and For Our Leaders, is the Founder and President of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates, and the Chairman of the Board of The Congressional Management Foundation. Mr. Chaleff co-authored the original handbook for newly elected members of Congress: Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide, now in its eight edition. Mr. Chaleff designs and conducts leadership team development programs for organizations such as University Information Services at Georgetown University and Bio Regulatory Services at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of United States Department of Agriculture.
John Evey
As Vice President for Development at the J. Craig Venter Institute, John Evey is responsible for raising non-governmental resources for this major institute that is advancing genomic research to benefit human health and the environment. Mr. Evey previously served the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Assistant Director of Scripps and Executive Director of Development for the Marine Sciences at UC San Diego. Over a thirty-year professional career—including twenty-five years directing development programs—Mr. Evey has personally generated more than $100 million in gifts and matching funds.
John Fyfe
Mr. Fyfe is a Group Director and Chairman of Lincolne Scott, an Australian engineering consultancy in the design and operation of building technology. He is a Group Director of Lincolne Scott and Chairman of Lincolne Scott Inc. Innovative design, design management and broad technical knowledge with excellent problem solving skills characterize the strengths Mr. Fyfe brings to Lincolne Scott. His career has covered the full gamut of roles from client to design engineer. Mr. Fyfe moved to Hawaii in 2000 to support and broaden the services Lincolne Scott provides to the Hawaiian and general USA market. He now lives and works in the newly established San Diego office, bringing the LS brand to the US Mainland. He is a Professional Engineer.
David Gottfried
David Gottfried is the visionary founder of the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council and creator of USGBC LEED® standards. He has 25 years of multidisciplinary real estate, consulting and non-profit experience in the building industry as an investment fund manager, real estate developer, construction manager, green management consultant and international keynote speaker and author. He is CEO and Founder of Regenerative Ventures (formerly known as WorldBuild), one of the first green strategic consulting organizations in the world. The firm has served as the sustainable development consultant for many of the leading and award-winning sustainable organizations and projects in the country. Regenerative Ventures is also engaged in assisting emerging green-tech companies achieve their potential in a rapidly expanding global marketplace. Mr. Gottfried received his degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University. He is the author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life.
Jeremy Halbreich
Jeremy Halbreich is the Chairman of the Board and interim CEO of the Sun Times Media Group (which includes the Chicago Sun-Times and sixty (60) other Chicago-area local daily, weekly and niche publications). Mr. Halbreich is the former President and General Manager of the Dallas Morning News and former Founder, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO of American Consolidated Media (ACM). ACM owned and operated over 100 local, community newspapers along with related print media and web sites in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania before being sold to Macquarie Media Group (MMG: ASX), a publicly-traded media holding company based inSydney, Australia.
Craig Irving
As Principal and founder of Irving Hughes, Craig A. Irving has been working in all aspects of commercial real estate leasing and sales in San Diego for over 20 years, with an exclusive emphasis on tenant representation since 1993. A native San Diegan, Mr. Irving earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration through the University of Southern California’s prestigious entrepreneur program. In addition, Mr. Irving is a co-founder, former President and CEO, and current Chairman of the Board of the local software firm Confirmnet Corporation. Confirmnet, launched in 1999, offers a technological solution to creating, delivering and managing certificates of insurance in the property and casualty insurance industry. He currently serves on the board of the Point Loma Nazarene President’s Community Council, Board of Trustees for Children’s Hospital, Chairman of the board of the San Diego Police Foundation and the incoming President of the San Diego Chapter of Young Presidents Organization.
Charles Smith
Charles Smith co-founded Digital Stock in 1992 and revolutionized digital image acquisition, production methods, and image delivery via the Internet. As president, he presided over one of fastest growing private companies in the 1990s. Digital Stock was sold to Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation in 1998. Today, the royalty-free transaction model introduced by Smith accounts for approximately 95% of image sales worldwide. In 2001, Mr. Smith founded Nforma (now Knowledge Factor), which invented and patented Confidence Based Learning, the world’s first online training system that simultaneously measures both knowledge and confidence. CBL predicts workforce behavior, allowing organizations to systematically find and fix misinformation before it leads to mistakes. In 2006 he co-founded Redwing Media which develops products within both paper-based publishing and modern electronic communications in fields related to the life sciences.
Richard Swett
Architect, former ambassador, and former U.S. congressman, Richard Swett is a fellow of The American Institute of Architects and a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council. He is currently the Managing Director of Leo Daly Architects’ Washington DC office. He serves on numerous boards and is the state (New Hampshire) chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, he is a senior counselor at APCO Worldwide—a global strategic communication and public relations firm, and is a senior advisor at Greenway Consulting. He received his Bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University. He was bestowed the Grand-Croix of the Order of the Dannebrog, the Danish equivalence of knighthood, from Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Ted van der Linden
Ted van der Linden, Director of Sustainable Construction and a Senior Preconstruction Manager for DPR, offers a tremendous wealth of expertise in all phases of commercial, industrial and sustainable construction. With more than 22 years of experience, van der Linden serves on the national Board of Directors for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is an active leader of the USGBC’s Northern California Chapter Board of Directors. With the highest percent of LEED® accredited professionals on staff among than any other general contractor in the nation (198 and counting to date), DPR specializes in technically challenging and sustainable projects across the country, including its own Sacramento office building that achieved Silver certification for new construction and gold certification for commercial interiors.
John Waters
Mr. Waters was formerly Rocky Mountain Institute’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Vice President until he founded, in 2007, Bright Automotive. Mr. Waters lead the PHEV team in providing a whole-system product solution for the transportation sector. Previously, Mr. Waters was the Vice President of Business Development for EnerDel, Inc. – a lithium battery joint venture with Delphi Corporation; worked for Electronic Data Systems Corporation where he led numerous projects, including the development and production of the battery pack system for General Motors’ first electric vehicle and subsequent electric vehicles (i.e., GM’s EV1, and the Electric S-10). In this role, Mr. Waters’ invention of the EV1 structural battery tray was recognized by the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) as the automotive design “Grand Award for 1997”. He won the industry award the following year for the Electric S-10 battery pack design. Mr. Waters has been awarded four U.S. patents, two international patents, holds two defensive papers in battery pack designs, and has received numerous industry awards.