Greg is a Manager within RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings Program, leveraging a background in real estate finance to help strengthen the business case for clean energy and sustainability in the built environment. Since joining full-time in 2017, his work at RMI has primarily focused on finance and policy interventions to decarbonize buildings. He manages RMI’s Finance the Future initiative, working to climate-align housing finance and scale up new financing products for home performance improvements. He has also led various policy efforts at the city, state, and federal levels – including managing a cohort of 15+ cities nationwide to develop home energy labeling and disclosure policies, running a city accelerator on building performance standards, and developing comprehensive state and federal policy playbooks to decarbonize the buildings sector.
Before joining RMI, Greg developed well-rounded private sector experience in the commercial real estate industry while working in New York City. Most recently, he helped launch the U.S. real estate investing platform of Allianz, an international insurance and asset management company, where he was responsible for evaluating acquisitions of large office, retail, and multifamily properties. Prior to that, he worked in the debt financing and asset management departments of real estate private equity and development firm Tishman Speyer, collaborating closely with leasing, property management, and other in-house functions. His graduate studies focused on energy and environmental aspects of buildings, including sustainable design, energy simulation, and innovative financing solutions.
MS, Real Estate & the Built Environment, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
BA, Economics, Yale University
Boulder, CO
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