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Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen

Director, Healthy Buildings Program

Harvard University

John Macomber

John Macomber

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Harvard University

Namrata Vora
Moderator

Namrata Vora

VP, Sales

Saint-Gobain SageGlass

Alan McLenaghan
Opening Remarks

Alan McLenaghan

CEO

Saint-Gobain SageGlass

Joseph Allen

Director, Healthy Buildings Program

Harvard University

Joseph G. Allen is Director of the Healthy Buildings Program and an Assistant Professor at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A renowned forensic investigator of “sick buildings,” he is a regular keynote speaker and advises leading global companies on Healthy Building strategies. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. As of March 19, 2020, Allen is serving as Co-Chair of the International Well Building Institute’s Coronavirus Task Force.

John Macomber

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Harvard University

John D. Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Harvard Business School. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal Asian Edition. He is the author of more than thirty case studies on infrastructure projects with particular emphasis on office buildings in the United States, housing in India, water in Mexico, innovative project finance in Africa, and private-sector–led new cities in Asia.

Namrata Vora

Moderator

Saint-Gobain SageGlass

Namrata Vora oversees all sales functions and field operations in North America, India, and Asia-Pacific regions for SageGlass, a Saint-Gobain company. Prior to joining Saint-Gobain, she served as Chief Revenue Officer at Suntuitive Dynamic Glass, leading all aspects of sales and marketing. She also spent eight years at View Dynamic Glass in key roles including product marketing, product management, and sales. Namrata is a graduate of Savitribai Phule Pune and Purdue University and holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Alan McLenaghan

Opening Remarks

Saint-Gobain SageGlass

Dr. Alan McLenaghan has held numerous positions within the Saint-Gobain family of companies and currently serves as CEO of SageGlass, the pioneer of dynamic glass. He was SVP of Technology at Verallia North America, and prior to working at Saint-Gobain, Alan spent three years with DuPont and seven with ICI. Alan earned a B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Physics from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and a Ph.D. in Polymer Physics from the University of Strathclyde and the Institut Laue-Langevin in France.

Summary

  1. How can the person who manages your building have a major impact on your health?

  2. What is a healthy building? How do “sick buildings” impact business leaders, owners, developers, and employees?

  3. How do healthy building strategies impact a company's bottom line?

  4. How can we measure the health of buildings?

  5. How can you renovate existing buildings to make them healthier?

Agenda

Time Activity
5:00 PM
5:05 PM
Opening Remarks With Alan
5:05 PM
5:45 PM
Importance Of Healthy Buildings With Joseph & John
5:45 PM
5:55 PM
Q&A With The Audience!