Board of Directors in 2010
| Name |
Board Term |
Executive Position |
Liaison of |
| Bae-Won Koh |
2010 |
Chair |
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| Will Senner |
2011 |
Vice Chair |
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| Ben Yorker |
2010 |
Secretary |
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| Stacy Glass |
2010 |
Treasurer |
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| Doug Brinkley |
2010 |
Immed. Past Chair |
Advocacy |
| Chris Hilt |
2011 |
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Membership |
| Susannah Tuttle |
2010 |
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Diversity & Outreach |
| Dona Stankus |
2010 |
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SERC |
| Katherine Jordan |
2010 |
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Communications |
| Jim Bell |
2010 |
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Education |
| Jason Barron |
2011 |
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Development |
| Holly Fling |
2011 |
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Residential |
| Stephanie Coble |
2010 |
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EGB |
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Chair Bae-Won Koh Innovative Design, Inc. |
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Bae-Won Koh, AIA, LEED AP, is the Vice President and Director of Design at Innovative Design, Inc. He has 16 years of experience in educational, commercial and mixed-use project design. He received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and the Master of Architecture degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He has been managing several sustainable projects at Innovative Design since he joined the firm in 2004. He has pledged to Architecture 2030 Challenge and all his projects have been designed to meet or exceed the 2030 challenge. He was the chair of Education Committee in 2006 and served as a representative of the chapter to USGBC SERC for 2007-2008. He also served as the vice chair of the chapter in 2009.This is his 4th year as a board member.
Bae-Won has spoken at numerous conferences and workshops including Greenbuild, AIA National Convention and many other professional and public events teaching sustainable design measures and showcasing exemplary projects. He is currently a member of American Solar Energy Society, International Solar Energy Society and a lifetime member of Korea Green Building Council. |
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Vice Chair Will Senner Skanska |
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Will Senner is part of the preconstruction group of the Durham Office of Skanska USA Building, a leading global provider of construction management services. While at Skanska, he has worked on projects across the east coast primarily in the healthcare, higher education, and commercial market segments, including numerous LEED projects. He has also worked on special projects at Skanska including an ongoing escalation analysis, work with the LEED consulting group and the national innovation initiatives.
Senner graduated with honors from Duke University in 2006 with a B.S.E in structural engineering and a Masters of Engineering Management. A member of the Triangle Chapter of the Emerging Green Builders since 2006, he has served as their National Local Leaders Representative and is currently a Co-Chair. He is also a member of the Emerging Green Builders National Committee.
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Secretary Ben Yorker Boylan Development Company |
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Ben Yorker serves as Development Manager for Boylan Development Company. In this capacity, he directs staff and consultants in the analysis, entitlement, design, construction, marketing and disposition for multi-family and mixed-use projects. He also participates in identifying and promoting new development opportunities. To date, Yorker has developed multi-family, mixed-use and commercial projects with a combined construction value of over $300MM. He recently completed development for “Landing at Southpoint”, the first multi-family community in the state of North Carolina to pursue certification under USGBC’s “LEED for Homes” program. Mr. Yorker earned a B.S. in Architecture degree from the University of Virginia in 1994 and a M. Architecture degree from Columbia University in 1997. In 2003, he received an M.B.A. degree from Darden Business School. |
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Treasurer Stacy Glass CaraGreen |
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Stacy Glass is the President of CaraGreen and is responsible for strategic partnerships and operations of the Company. Prior to joining CaraGreen, Stacy was a consultant working with the non-profit sector, private industry, and government to develop and execute start-up strategies for businesses and social enterprises. She specializes in all aspects of operationalizing a business including financial modeling, business development, and fundraising. Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Stacy was a management consultant for ten years with an international firm where she contributed to rapid growth and expansion by developing new markets and managing multi-million dollar projects. She holds a BA degree from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Duke University, where she participated in a unique global program that included on-site experience in over a half-dozen countries. |
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Immediate Past Chair Doug Brinkley PBC+L Architecture |
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Douglas M. Brinkley, AIA, LEED AP is a principal with the award winning architectural design firm of Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, PA with offices in Raleigh and Asheville, North Carolina. He is a co-founder of North Carolina’s first USGBC Chapter and has served on that board for 3 years in various capacities from treasurer to vice chair. Brinkley also serves on the Wake County Citizens Energy Advisory Commission, the Wake County United Arts Grants Panel and is a 2008 Co-chair for the North Carolina State University College of Design Urban Design Conference entitled “Urban Growth – Intelligent by Design”. Brinkley is also the liaison of the advocacy committee for the NC Triangle Chapter of the USGBC. |
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Director Dona Stankus North Carolina State University |
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Dona Stankus is a registered architect and Building Programs Manager at the NC Solar Center in the College of Engineering at NC State University. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from NCSU’s College of Design and has worked in the field of architecture for 24 years including 6 years as the successful sole proprietor of a sustainable architecture firm. Among other projects and duties, her role at the Solar Center includes Director/Founder of the award-winning NC HealthyBuilt Homes green builder program and building plan design reviewer for both residential and commercial green/solar buildings. The Building Program at the Solar Center has recently been named as a LEED for Homes Provider.
Dona currently is chair of the NC Triangle Chapter of the US Green Building Council and sits on the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, where she represents the Council on an ANSI consensus process committee that is creating a national residential green building standard. Additionally, she sits on the City of Raleigh Environmental Board and the Human Rights/Program Committee for Learning Together, a non-profit developmental early childhood Center.
She is a past Chair of the NC Sustainable Energy Association (2002) and the Carolina Recycling Associations’ Green Building Council (1999). In addition, Dona served as an adjunct instructor for the College of Design at NCSU in the fall semesters of 2005 and 2006 and was a member of the NCSU Physical Environment Committee from fall 2003 to spring 2007. |
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Director Chris Hilt CLH Design, PA. |
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Christine Hilt is a leader in environmentally-friendly site designed multiple projects applying Green Building Design standards, the LEED rating system and High Performance Guidelines to site design applications. Additionally, under Ms. Hilt’s guidance, CLH Design, P.A. has become an award-winning firm for taking site design a step further in developing a “Site’s That Educate” program to teach educators and students about environmental issues through hand-on wetlands plantings and stream buffer projects. Ms. Hilt’s field of specialization is innovative educational/institutional design with an emphasis on public participation in Environmental education. She is a liaison of Membership Committee. |
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Director Jim Bell Bobbitt Design Build |
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Jim Bell is a project developer at Bobbitt Design Build in Raleigh. He is a LEED AP, Green Advantage Certified and Green Advantage Instructor teaching over 100 contractors at Wilson Community College. He has served as a director of the board and a chair of Economic Development Committee for Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of Education Committee of USGBC NC Triangle Chapter since 2006 and served as the chair in 2007. |
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Director Katherine Jordan Duke Medicine Architect's Office |
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Katherine L. Jordan, LEED AP is the Assistant Director for Campus Design & Sustainability for Duke Medicine. In her role she manages the LEED process for all new construction and acts as a watch-dog for green implementation on renovations - roughly 500,000 sf of existing clinical, administrative and educational facilities and over 1 million sf of near-term growth. She is also an active member of Duke’s Environmental Management Advisory Committee which focuses on cross-campus issues. Prior to Duke, Jordan worked in the urban design and architecture office of Cooper, Robertson & Partners and received her Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia where she also holds a B.A. in Art History. |
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Director Susannah Tuttle Trace Collaborative |
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Susannah Tuttle is co-founder and partner in Trace Collaborative, LLC a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainability within the design and construction industry. Trace Collaborative’s services help firms understand and establish core values while creating a process and timeline for implementation and education. Tuttle received her BA in 1996 from New College of California and went on to study at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Her work at the GTU focused on three different interrelated levels of human existence: Educational/Philosophical, Institutional/Physical-Structural, and Communal/Bioregional. In 2004 Tuttle received her Masters of Divinity and was hired as UNC Chapel Hill's first Sustainability Research Associate. There she helped coordinate the development of a Vice Chancellor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee to establish and implement policies, practices, and curricula, pushing UNC Chapel Hill into the national forefront of campus sustainability. Tuttle is Director of Historic Green, a national nonprofit transforming and revitalizing communities through education and charitable activities that integrate sustainable design and heritage conservation practices. |
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Director Jason Barron K&L Gates |
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Mr. Barron focuses his practice on land use and zoning, commercial real estate, and land use litigation.
Mr. Barron is a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP), a distinction he earned through the Green Building Certification Institute. As a LEED-AP, he has demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building practices and principles, as well as the LEED Rating System.
Other professional/Civic Activities:
Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation, Attorney for the Board of Directors, 2009-Present
Zoning Planning and Land Use Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, Co-Chair of CLE Committee, 2009-Present
North Carolina Bar Association (Real Property Section, Zoning Planning and Land Use Section Member) |
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Director Holly Fling Austin ECO Systems Analysis |
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Holly is the founder of ECO Systems Analysis LLC a strategy firm focused on designing intellectual infrastructure and business frameworks that increase financial and environmental value and maximize operational efficiencies. We create financial and natural capital through strategic positioning, management processes and enterprise sustainability which value all resources and minimize waste. Prior to founding ECO Systems Analysis LLC, Holly was a member of the Sustainable Planning & Development team at Cherokee Investment Partners, a brownfield investment fund with more than $2 billion of assets under management. In this role, she was responsible for the sustainability aspects of underwriting and asset management for all of Cherokee’s projects in the southeastern U.S. and the chief architect of Cherokee’s Information Management System. At Cherokee, Holly focused on both corporate and project performance – developing metrics and goals, implementation tools for asset and project management, and messaging related to sustainable development and corporate responsibility for investors and external audiences.
Holly received a BA with honors from Harvard University in Environmental Science and Public Policy where she was a scholar-athlete and four-year NCAA competitor on the Harvard-Radcliffe Crew. She later received a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment where she was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and selected as a Presidential Managerial Fellow. Holly currently serves on the Sustainability Committee and Communications Committee of the Urban Land Institute’s Triangle District Council and is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP).
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Director Stephanie Coble Hager Smith Design |
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Stephanie received her Bachelor in Landscape Architecture Degree from NC State University’s School of Design in 2004. She chose her profession as a way to combine her passions for sustainability and art. Her final project was a 3-D schematic design of rooftop healing gardens for Rex Hospital, which included many sustainable features. Since graduating, she has been a site designer with HagerSmith Design PA, a multi-disciplinary planning and design firm located in downtown Raleigh. Over the past five years she has been involved with many aspects of site plan development including site analysis, layout design, grading, planting plans, detailing, marketing graphics, permitting, and LEED design. As a founding member of her firm’s Green Committee she developed an award winning Green Lunch & Learn series, as well as a series of Community Design Charettes for the green renovation of two exterior spaces at the historic Murphey School Building for low-income seniors, in downtown Raleigh.
Stephanie served as Outreach Chair for the Triangle Emerging Green Builders (EGB) from 2008-2010. Currently, she is serving as co-chair of the group. Aside from her work with HagerSmith and the Triangle Chapter, she is a student mentor for the Landscape Architecture program at NCSU, a co-founding member of the NC Clean Water Collaborative, a member of ASLA, and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.
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