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WorldGBC Executive Guido Petinelli Joins iLiv Executive Team
Montreal, Canada (November 11, 2008) — iLiv today announced that Guido Petinelli has joined the Company as Vice President. Most recently, Mr. Petinelli served as Director of Council Development for the World Green Building Council.
Mr Petinelli was responsible for leading the establishment of, and supporting the development of, new Green Building Councils worldwide for the WorldGBC, where he spent the past two years expanding the network of partners and supporters of the green building movement in South America, Europe and the Middle East. He played a key role in the establishment of the GBC Brazil, where he is a Founding Board member and sits on its LEED® Steering Committee. He was a LEED consultant for the Dubai World Trade Centre which, at 1 million square meters, is one of the world's largest LEED projects. Together with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Mr. Petinelli has developed educational materials on the use of natural lighting simulation software. He also sat on the Steering Committee of the Database for Analyzing Sustainable and High Performance Buildings (DASH) of the Green Building Alliance, Pennsylvania. Mr. Petinelli is a LEED Accredited Professional and is a member of the Canada Green Building Council and US Green Building Council. He was born in Brazil and educated in Canada, where he was trained as an architect at McGill University.
Reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Andrew Culver, Guido will work closely with Mr. Culver and Huston Eubank, iLiv V.P. for Knowledge and Community, to build new relationships with clients and partners as iLiv brings speed, scale and capacity to the greening of the world’s buildings.
“Guido is a gifted business development manager with deep international experience bringing people, organizations and money together to help drive the global property industry toward green practices,” said Mr. Culver. “As he shifts his focus from increasing green building demand via green building councils, to increasing supply, Guido will guide iLiv’s customers toward the opportunities and processes they will leverage to transform their properties into sustainable assets for their customers and investors. We are very pleased to welcome the positive experience, energy and impact that Guido and will bring to iLiv and its customers.”
“I am very excited to join a great group of very talented individuals at iLiv,” said Mr. Petinelli. “We all share a passion for green buildings, understand the urgency of the challenge, and are committed to finding ways to make it a reality, everywhere.”
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