David Gottfried is known as a father of the global green building movement. He founded the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council, now with GBCs in over 80 countries. This pioneering work started a global sustainable building movement with billions of square feet of projects in 181 countries, and hundreds of thousands of accredited professionals.

Gottfried serves as Founder and CEO of Regen360, a startup working to accelerate the global green building GBC network through a collaborative digital platform and marketplace. His first pilot is with the USGBC-California chapter.

Gottfried served as Chief Commercial Officer for Blue Planet Systems. The firm makes Synthetic Limestone [CaCO3] aggregate by a circular process that sequesters and mineralizes CO2 from industrial plants into carbon neutral and negative concrete.

Previously, Gottfried was CEO of Reset360, Regenerative Ventures and its RegenNetwork for twenty years. He started his career as a real estate developer and contractor, including Senior Vice President of Thomas Properties Group and Managing Director of its Green Building Fund.

Gottfried is writing Regen360: An Operating System for a Regenerative Future publishing in late 2026. His bestselling book Explosion Green was a 2014 Indie Book Awards Winner and has a cover testimonial from President Clinton. Gottfried hosts the Regen360 iTunes podcast with 80 episodes.

His former residence was the highest rated LEED Platinum home in the world. He is now starting the next demonstration house to expand further beyond net zero, resilient and healthy best practice performance standards. Gottfried has a degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University, where he was a regular civil engineering lecturer.

Gottfried has received numerous leadership awards, including the WorldGBC Global Green Building Entrepreneurship Award, the Global Green Building Entrepreneurship Award, USGBC’s Leadership Award, and the USGBC Northern California Chapter’s Super Hero Award, which is given out annually in his name. He was inducted into the Green Industry Hall of Fame and named to the Purpose Economy 100.