Partners

Lev Tsypin

Green Renter co-founder Lev Tsypin has twelve years of experience in the Internet field. In the 1990's he worked as a consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Inforte Corporation in Chicago. Before venturing out on his own, he served as the Director of Programming at Pop Art, Inc. in Portland, OR. In addition to Green Renter, Lev now operates as a web developer and Internet consultant under the guise of Level Online Strategy.

Marti Frank

Marti Frank has been working in the green building industry since 2000. From 2001 to 2007 she worked on research projects to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings at PECI, a leading energy efficiency program implementer. Marti recently completed a PhD in American history at Harvard University, where she wrote a dissertation on energy use in the 19th century. She is compulsive about turning off lights.

Pam Neild

A program design and communications professional with over ten years experience implementing resource efficiency programs, Pam spends her time immersed in Portland's sustainable development community. She specializes in the behavior change model Community-Based Social Marketing, and incorporates its principles into program design. She has worked directly with Portland's multifamily residential and commercial property communities on recycling, energy efficiency and sustainable economic development projects through the Portland Office of Sustainable Development.

At seven years old she was known to pick up trash on the way home from school and demand that she and her mom find a way to recycle or reuse the nuts, bolts and other found treasures. Although she's been happily married for over two years, Pam finally changed her last name from Pickens to Neild, which is why earlier articles quote her as Pam "Pickens".

Advisors

Robert Neild

I joined the GreenRenter team because I believe that much can be achieved by recognizing and rewarding good design and engineering. I lived in Germany and Switzerland as a child in the 80's where these were valued and where tripple glazing, high levels of insulation and other conservation measures were already the norm. I then studied marine engineering where I learned that you can build functional, comfortable working and living spaces in even the most hostile of environments as long as you mix the lessons from the past with the innovation of today. I hope that GreenRenter helps green renters give green builders a reason to build green buildings. Spread "green wealth" to all.