Rick Fedrizzi
Rick Fedrizzi is an American business executive, author, and co-founder of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993 along with co-founders David Gottfried and Mike Italiano. USGBC is a nonprofit organization that created the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system.
- Fedrizzi served as CEO of USGBC from 2001 to 2016, and was the Founding Chair. He also served as CEO of the USGBC sister organization, Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI).
- Fedrizzi has served as CEO and Chairman of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) since 2016. IWBI founder Paul Scialla convinced him to put off retirement to run the organization.[1]
- Fedrizzi served on the Board of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[2]
At USGBC's annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, Fedrizzi spoke alongside United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2013.[3]
Early Life
Fedrizzi is a native of Syracuse, New York. He graduated from Le Moyne College in Syracuse with an accounting degree in 1976[4], then earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Syracuse University. His first job was delivering newspapers at age 14 in Syracuse, NY. [5] Early in his career he worked at Carrier Global, an American air conditioning company.[4]
Writing
Fedrizzi is author of, Greenthink: How Profit Can Save the Planet, ISBN 978-1633310056. [5] Actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio wrote the foreword to the book.
Awards
Personal Life
Fedrizzi married his wife Cathy in 1978.[4]
References
- ↑ Sharf, Samantha. "This Ex-Goldman Trader And His $800 Million Startup Hope You'll Pay Extra For Real Estate That Aces A 'Wellness' Test". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ↑ www.architectmagazine.com https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/usgbc-ceo-rick-fedrizzi-to-head-the-international-well-building-institute_o. Retrieved 2022-06-25. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Catanese, David (June 3, 2013). "Clinton to keynote Greenbuild". U.S. News & World Report. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "A leader should not be afraid to make things simple". syracuse. 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rote, Laura (2017-05-01). "Rick Fedrizzi Looks at How He Became a Green Building Guru - gb&d". gb&d magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ↑ "Q&A with CEO of the International WELL Building Institute". Woodhouse Workspace. 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ↑ Woodruff, Chloe. "Verdical Group's 7th Annual Net Zero Conference: Building a Net Zero Future". Metropolis. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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