Snowmass, Colo.--Today, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) announced that Scott Muldavin has joined the Institute to bolster RMI’s expertise in sustainable finance.
Muldavin is a leading authority in sustainable real estate finance. In 2006, he founded and served as Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium (GBFC)—a group created to address the private sector’s need for better valuation and underwriting tools and practices to enable accelerated green building investment—will drive a new Institute capability in private sector investment decision-making, with an initial focus on real estate and renewables.
“To accelerate the penetration of sustainable buildings and practices, the need to address building owner decision-making has increased significantly—with finance as a key factor,” said Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson, RMI Managing Director. “By combining RMI’s 30 years of experience creating transformational designs, stimulating higher aspirations and encouraging innovation and scaling and applying design processes with GBFC’s focus on value, finance and investor motivation, Scott will help integrate finance considerations more strategically into all our initiatives.”
As RMI pursues a 2050 economy powered by efficiency and renewables—an imperative called Reinventing Fire—the need for education about new approaches to value-based decision-making and the development of new financing options and scalable investment solutions is critical.
“Reinventing Fire demonstrates there are reasonable business-ready solutions to achieving a more competitive U.S. economy powered by efficiency and renewables,” Muldavin said. “I look forward to continuing and expanding RMI's commitment to engage business and the capital markets directly, and help accelerate the market transformation that is already underway.”
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About Rocky Mountain Institute?Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do tank. RMI emphasizes integrative design, advanced technologies, and mindful markets in fulfilling its mission to drive the efficient and restorative use of resources. RMI’s strategic focus is to map and drive the U.S. transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables by 2050. Visit www.rmi.org for more information.
About Scott Muldavin, CRE, FRICS
In 2006, Mr. Muldavin became Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium. Scott Muldavin was also President of The Muldavin Company, Inc., a consulting firm serving the real estate industry. Prior to founding The Muldavin Company in 1999, he was a leader of the real estate consulting practice at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Muldavin is also a founding principal of Guggenheim Real Estate, a $4 billion private real estate investment company managing investments in properties, REITs, and high yield debt and an Advisory Board Member of Global Real Analytics, a registered investment company advising and managing over $1 billion of private REIT and CMBS funds. A full bio is available at http://www.greenbuildingfc.com/Home/Biographies/ScottMuldavin.aspx