Rachel Gutter is President of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit

corporation with a mission to improve human health and well-being through the built

environment. In 2016, as IWBI’s Chief Product Officer, Rachel expanded the WELL Building

Standard to address all building types, as well as whole districts and communities. Becoming

President in 2018, she led the effort to bring a new version of WELL to market, shaped IWBI’s

research and education platforms to accelerate market transformation and developed the

WELL Portfolio program and IWBI Membership platform.

Rachel came to IWBI after nearly a decade at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she served

as Senior Vice President of Knowledge and was Founding Director of the Center for Green

Schools.

A widely sought after expert and inspiring speaker, Rachel’s game-changing contributions to

sustainable building have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR,

FOX News, and CNN, as well as in leading industry publications including Fast Company,

Metropolis, Grist and GreenBIZ.

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.

Ryan Park is responsible for the overall go-to-market strategy of Saint-Gobain SageGlass. Ryan joined Saint-Gobain from Honeywell, where he held global roles including Director of Strategic Marketing and Director of Product Marketing focused on transforming traditional businesses into the smart home and building spaces. Prior to Honeywell, he was a global product marketer and engineer for HID Global, serving the identity and access management market. Ryan is a graduate of Minnesota State University.