Mr. Ryan Snow

Ryan is a sustainability professional and educator with over two decades of leadership in the green building industry. As Regional Director, U.S. Market Transformation & Development at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), he leads a regional team to grow sustainability, health, resilience, and equity in buildings and communities through LEED. He is responsible for a successful market transformation and development growth strategy and heads a team that delivers local programming, education, stakeholder engagement, and leadership celebration in local markets. In previous roles at USGBC he served as chief community developer responsible for cultivating partnerships and developing campaigns to increase participation in the green industry and access resources for underserved communities. He led numerous summits which engaged thousands of people at the intersection of equity, sustainability, and resilience in communities and buildings.. Ryan served on a leadership team that merged over 70 independent chapters with USGBC to build a stronger green building network locally. He established USGBC's education partner program, GBCI’s Education Review system, trained around 100 USGBC Faculty, and produced hundreds of hours of educational content delivered in person and online for tens of thousands of people. Ryan was formerly with the Green Building Alliance (GBA) in Pittsburgh and has worked on diverse sustainability projects - from a Permaculture homestead to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. At GBA, he consulted on building projects in partnership with the Pittsburgh Community Loan fund, advised on affordable housing grants with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh, and helped establish the NAIOP Sustainable Development awards. He led the first-ever summit on the greening of historic properties and established a summit for real estate decision-makers on the business case for sustainable buildings. Ryan has served several nonprofit organizations, including the In