Mahesh Ramanujam
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board of Directors announced that Mahesh Ramanujam, the organization’s current chief operating officer (COO), will assume the duties of chief executive officer at the end of 2016. Ramanujam joined USGBC in 2009 as senior vice president, technology before being named COO in September 2011. In December 2012, he was named president of the Green Building Certification Institute. Ramanujam brings more than 16 years of diverse enterprise management to the USGBC. He graduated from India’s Annamalai University with a degree in computer engineering. He has been the COO of Emergys Corporation and has successfully led various transformation programs at IBM and Lenovo.