Steve Glenn, the Founder and CEO, of LivingHomes (www.livinghome.net) a premier developer of modern and sustainable prefabricated homes, will be speaking at the offices of Cherokee Fund on Wednesday, March 10 at 6 pm. Don’t miss this great opportunity to hear from a seasoned and successful green entrepreneur. Please register online or email Irene Sherman at isherman@cherokeefund.com to register or for more information.
Location:
111 E. Hargett Street, Ste 300
CONFERENCE ROOM: Wilmington
Raleigh, NC 27601
About LivingHome and Steve Glenn
The first LivingHome, designed by Ray Kappe, FAIA, was installed in eight hours. It became the first home ever to receive a LEED for Home Platinum rating and was the only home to win the AIA’s top sustainability award in 2007. The second LivingHome was named Green Home of the Year by Green Home Builder Magazine. Before LivingHomes, Glenn worked as with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) and managed the development of a $220 million program in Mozambique, the first program CHAI launched in Africa. Glenn is founder and former Chairman and CEO of PeopleLink, a leading provider of enterprise ecommunity solutions, which raised $35 million from AT&T Ventures, GE, Goldman Sachs, idealab and others. Glenn was a founding partner of idealab, a business incubation firm that raised $1 billion and that founded or invested in a number of successful companies including GoTo/Overture (OVER), NetZero/United Online (UNTD), CitySearch (TMCS), Tickets.com (TKTS), eToys and CarsDirect. Glenn worked for Walt Disney Imagineering as co-director of the Virtual Reality Studio. Glenn co-founded Clearview Software, which was sold to Apple Computer where Glenn later served as a marketing specialist. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Brown University, and was a Coro Fellow. Glenn is a co-founder of the Sustainable Business Council, www.sustainablebc.org (and chair), the Kaia Parker Dance Fund, www.kaiaparker.org, and a co-founder and former board member of Hope Street Group, www.hopestreetgroup.org. He is a member of the board of directors of the Brown University Entrepreneur Forum, www.brownep.org, and Watts House Project, www.wattshouseproject.org. Glenn teaches courses at Pepperdine Business School and California State University, Long Beach. He was named the Clean Tech CEO of the Year in 2008 by Clean Tech Week, and Environmental Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 by LA City Council/Faith2Green.
