Verdani Partners

Ruby is a driven sustainability professional with 11 years of consulting experience including commissioning, energy audits, lighting retrofits, green building certifications, and project management. With a background in engineering and over 22.3 million gross square feet of certified projects, Ruby is the Director of Certifications at Verdani Partners. As an expert in green building certifications, Ruby leads LEED Green Associate Trainings, performs feasibility studies, GAP analysis, Real Estate Portfolio assessments for green building certifications and is responsible for business development for certifications. Ruby holds credentials in WELL AP, LEED AP O+M, Fitwel Ambassador, GGP, and Envision SP.

Daniele Horton has over 20 years of professional experience including architecture, corporate sustainability, real estate and project management. Daniele is President and Founder of Verdani Partners, a full-service sustainability and ESG management consulting firm with projects totaling 750 million SF across 4,000 properties in diversified portfolios. She is Sustainabilty Advisor to Verdani’s largest accounts, and with over 100 industry presentations over the course of her career, Daniele is a leading voice in global sustainable real estate particularly on the topics of climate mitigation and resiliency strategies. Daniele is also a MSRE professor at University of San Diego.

Jessica brings 16 years of professional experience in sustainability experience for large real estate portfolios as well as city planning, with expertise in ESG, LEED, ENERGY STAR, CDP, CSR, GRI and GRESB strategy, stakeholder engagement and project management. Jessica is a VP at Verdani Partners, Director of the Corporate Sustainability Department and acts as Sustainability Advisor of several Verdani leading accounts. Since 2014, Jessica has been the Director of Sustainability for one of Verdani’s most progressive and award winning Class-A office portfolios, CommonWealth Partners.