David Gottfried is known as a father of the global green building movement, founding the U.S. Green Building Council and World Green Building Councils, now in 80 countries – starting a global sustainable building movement with hundreds of thousands of projects in 181 countries, and hundreds of thousands of accredited professionals. Gottfried’s work focuses on transformation at scale with urgency.

Gottfried serves as Chief Global Impact Officer for Blue Planet Systems. The firm makes Synthetic Limestone [CaCO3] aggregate by a circular process including directly sequestering and then mineralizing CO2 from industrial plants and Direct Air Capture. The potential is for gigatonnes of CO2 permanently stored annually into carbon negative concrete. Gottfried is helping Blue Planet accelerate commercialization of the company’s carbon negative concrete for the built environment and coastal protection around the world.
Previously, Gottfried was CEO of Reset360, Regenerative Ventures and its RegenNetwork. Gottfried 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 hosts the Regen360 iTunes podcast with 80 episodes. His former residence was the highest rated LEED Platinum home in the world. Gottfried has a degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University, where he is a regular 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. He was inducted into the Green Industry Hall of Fame and named to the Purpose Economy 100.
His bestselling book Explosion Green was a 2014 Indie Book Awards Winner and has a cover testimonial from President Clinton.