Summer Fowler
Founder & CEO
Summer Fowler is a passionate advocate for the intersection of Sustainability and Social Equity. After working at a large architecture firm, she pioneered several cutting edge sustainability projects, including one of the first Living Buildings the June Key Delta House, and first LEED Neighborhood Development Pilot project in Dubai.
When that firm went under in the 2009 downturn, she founded ecoREAL with the mission to make Green Building accessible for all. She built her Green Canary software after working on a Federal LEED jobsite, and living with the subs on a remote location learning their headache with documentation. Her Lean LEED tools integrate sustainability seamlessly with the design and construction process to ensure every project can optimize their performance goals and ensure a healthy indoor environment.
She teaches, leads, and innovates to make Green Building the best investment for the people, the buildings, the environment, and the people it serves. Her triple bottom-line approach has helped owners, including the City of Portland, Multnomah County, School Districts, Non-profits and private owners like the Ritz Carlton, exceed their sustainability and equity goals. This has included non-profits achieving Net Zero goals they didn’t think were possible through incentives, to making the leap from LEED to Well Building for the City of Portland’s economic historic major renovation of the Portland Building.
To help all types of projects achieve these she became an expert in making sustainability more affordable, including ETO’s Path to Net Zero program to help projects from low-income school districts and affordable housing to push their energy goals towards achieving the Architecture 2030 challenge despite budget concerns.
Summer started the Sustainability and Equity Committee for the Oregon Association of Entrepreneurs 10 years ago before joining the board and continues to be a leader. Summer is the Vice Chair, Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs. She is now Well Faculty and serves on the International Well Building Institute’s Equity Advisory Committee to promote Well Building for All.
Pamela Gorder
Chief Revenue Officer
Pamela came from Hotel property Management, joining sustainable consulting firm, Ecoreal. She entered the City of Portland sponsored Harvard MBA program for small business owners. She has worked on numerous LEED workshops and Charrettes, attended the Cleveland Clinics first Well Building workshop.
She worked closely with The Portland Building to be the first registered municipal building in the Northwest for International Well Building Certification. Pamela worked with Sheltered Market to attend LEED education programs to help enable them to work on larger, and government work.
She worked with the Portland Developement Commission to develop Talent Well, a platform to introduce small businesses to architects and builders virtually. Pam and Summer Fowler presented at the Green Build Mediterranean on “Well Building for All”.
James Hickman
CTO
James is an experienced developer who has provided beautiful, roust and maintainable software solutions for many of his software clients.
He is an expert in translating existing processes and business pain points into intelligent technology solutions. His focus is on identifying and solving inefficiency and process problems that cost person-hours and profits for multiple industries.
James has experience integrating a vast array of data sources and APIs from the cloud and local applications
Kim Bria, ENV SP
Collaborative Partner
Kim brings expertise in strategic business development and marketing. Resulting in sustainable growth that contributes to the bottom line as well as the environment. Understanding the critical connections between internal operations, client interfaces, and positive outcomes.
Sandra Lester
Collaborative Partner
Sandra Leigh Lester BTech(ArchSci) MCOD ARIDO IDC CPHD CSBA LEED AP BD+C HLC3 has a Masters Certificate in Organizational Development from Schulich Business School at York University in Toronto and a Certificate in Change Management from the Canadian Organizational Development Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science from Toronto Metropolitan University.
She is a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, a LEED-accredited Professional with a Specialty in Building Design and Construction, and is a Certified Passive House Designer. She founded her consulting practice, affectingchange in 2010. She has done work on over five continents, and her projects have won over eighty awards including a prestigious Clean50 Top Project Award in 2021. She is a sought-after speaker and is a Part-Time Professor at the Humber Advanced Institute of Technology in Toronto.