Mr. Winters is the Senior Fellow - Business Strategy and Finance at the US Green Building Council where he utilizes his background in institutional real estate finance to foster and strengthen the growing relationships between the green building and investment communities.
He is a member USGBC’s technology development and implementation team for the Green Building Information Gateway (GBIG.org), a global platform for green building insights and innovation. GBIG refines competitive markets by increasing transparency on key asset attributes and reducing capital market information asymmetry. These efforts serve to further unite the investment community with USGBC’s existing stakeholder base.
He also helped support USGBC’s efforts regarding the National Academy of Sciences report that reviewed the U.S. Department of Defense’s use of green building rating systems and recommended the DoD's continued use of LEED.
He is contributing author to two ULI textbooks including “Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business” and “Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development”, written numerous trade journal articles on green building finance, and served as special advisor to Building Design & Construction’s white paper “Green Buildings and the Bottom Line”. He was one of the first LEED-accredited financial professionals.
Mr. Winters has been a keynote speaker and/or panelist at industry events across North America, served as a member of the District of Columbia Mayor’s Green Building Task Force which successfully passed the DC Green Building Act and is a member of the DC Green Ribbon Committee.
He earned his Masters in Real Estate Finance and Development from Harvard, his MBA from SMU, and is an alumni of UW-Madison’s real estate program. He is an adjunct professor at University of Maryland's Colvin Institute of Real Estate.