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Dave joined the USGBC in 2006 and now serves as our Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Operations. In this role, he works closely with our global offices, providing value-added business analysis, and enabling consistent, streamlined processes, practices, and information flow to insure efficient and top-level performance. Dave also functions as a key partner in our relationships with Green Building Councils around the world informing business planning, market forecasting and market analysis.

Dave spent from 2019 to 2024 as Chief Operating Officer of GBCI’s subsidiary, Arc Skoru. Here he led Arc to enormous growth supporting the existing building market, expanding participation from 5,000 projects and 2 billion square feet to over 40,000 projects and over 11 billion square feet. In this time, Arc expanded its capabilities supporting LEED, ESG, climate risk and carbon emission reporting.

His first 12 years at USGBC were spent as head of the Finance department rising from Controller to Senior Vice President. In these roles he held responsibility for financial management, proper process and controls, reporting and audit, budget preparation, corporate investments and payroll functions. He participated in the successful sale of the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in 2013 and the acquisition of GRESB in 2015.

During those same years, Dave also spent time overseeing Operations and Administration. Here he focused on process improvement for new and existing lines of business, liaising with strategic partners, improving energy efficiency performance of the office, and reducing the organization’s carbon footprint. Dave served as the Executive Lead for many of the new rating systems added by GBCI, including PEER, SITES, Parksmart and TRUE. As part of the Market Transformation and Development team, Dave collaborated closely with stakeholders in Latin America to expand sustainability efforts across the region.

Dave earned a Master’s in Business Administration in Information Technology at Loyola College in Maryland, a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Syracuse University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Dave attended The Emerging CFO program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.