Paul von 
Paumgartten

President

Paul held the position of Senior Green Building Advisor for the Sustainability and Building Efficiency business of Johnson Controls. Paul has been an industry expert and spokesperson for the last 25 years around the issues of energy efficiency, green buildings and sustainable communities.  Paul is a leader known for his expertise and passion relative to greening the global existing building stock which will have a profound impact on climate change and emissions reduction.

Paul is one of the original members and served on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council for ten years, having served as Treasurer and co-chair of the LEED® Steering Committee.  He was the chairman of the LEED for Existing Buildings Committee as well as the Finance and Marketing Committees.  Paul was honored with the USGBC’s Leadership Award in 2005 for his work on LEED development.

Paul was one of the founders of the Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments, a coalition of suppliers of sustainable products and services. As a member of the Executive Council of the Energy Efficiency Forum, co-sponsored by Johnson Controls and the U.S. Energy Association, Paul helped bring together business and government leaders to discuss the implications of energy policy.

Through his efforts, Paul assisted Johnson Controls in twice earning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® award for the company’s involvement and promotional efforts. Johnson Controls has helped its thousands of customers – including K-12 schools, universities, commercial and industrial buildings, retail stores, and local and federal government buildings –save billions of dollars in energy costs.

In his 25+ years with Johnson Controls, Paul has served as the director of lighting services and performance contracting along with his managing of the high-performance green building business within the company. He was honored in 2008 with the company’s BELL (Building Efficiency Lifetime Leadership) award for his tenure and demonstrated leadership.

Before joining Johnson Controls, Paul held the positions of vice president of SPI Lighting; director of national accounts for McGraw Edison Company; and president of his own consulting firm, Productive Environments.

He has a degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Some of his areas of expertise include:

- LEED Green Building Rating System (USGBC)
- Green Building Design, Construction and Operation
- Environmental/Sustainability Issues
- Sustainable Communities
- Performance Contracting
- Utility and Power Issues
- Lighting Design & Application
- Energy/Water Efficiency