Green Advantage Announces New Chief Operating Officer And General Counsel

Marc A. Nichols, Esq., has been appointed the aboriginal Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Green Advantage. Green Advantage is a not-for-profit alignment that provides the country's longest-standing Environmental Certification for Building-Related Practitioners.

Frederick, MD -- Marc A. Nichols, Esq., has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Green Advantage. Nichols was a lot of afresh acting Executive Director for SB NOW, a community-based non-profit committed to architecture a added socially, environmentally, and financially acceptable bounded economy. While there he managed the conception and accomplishing of the organization's Green Business Certification and Audit Program, a similar, admitting non-competitive, affairs to Green Advantage's blooming architecture acceptance offerings. Prior acquaintance includes Inspector General for the U.S. Government Printing Office and Vice President and General Counsel for Copper Irle LLC, an Oregon-based online banking casework aggregation where, a allotment of added roles, he accustomed the acknowledged department.

Nichols will be the aboriginal COO and General Counsel for Green Advantage. His responsibilities will cover blank of the organization's all-embracing operations, including their blooming architecture practitioner acceptance programs, their relationships with seat-based and online accustomed training partners, as able-bodied as administering all community-building, business and communications functions. Nichols will aswell be amenable for all acknowledged relationships and development of all appropriate behavior and partnerships. These responsibilities were ahead allotment of the CEO's position, still captivated by Grady O'Rear.

"Marc Nichols is awfully able to advance Green Advantage. He comes at a cardinal time to advice Green Advantage abide its advance by acceptable its structure, systems and centralized capacity, accretion calm collaborative relationships and responding to all-embracing opportunities. Green Advantage is acutely admiring to accept him accompany its aggregation and adviser the alignment to accomplish its fullest potential," said O'Rear.

Nichols is a affiliate of the Washington, D.C., Colorado, and U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He holds a J.D. from the Washington and Lee University School of Law and accustomed his undergraduate amount from Wabash College. He is aswell a affiliate of the Board of Directors of the Sustainable Business Network of Washington and serves on the business board of the Human Rights Campaign. A U.S. citizen, Nichols has lived and/or formed in the U.K., Belgium, and Germany, which will prove to be invaluable as Green Advantage formalizes its relationships with governments and sustainability organizations internationally.

"Grady O'Rear has complete such a admirable alignment with a admirable acceptability aural the ecology and sustainability arena," said Nichols. "I am captivated to accompany such an aberrant aggregation and for accepting amenable for accidental to and accretion the amount and accession of Green Advantage's casting identity. Our goals now are to complete the centralized alignment of Green Advantage, aggrandize Green Advantage's acceptance affairs in the United States as our country becomes added affianced with ecology and acceptable practices and abound the alignment internationally."

Nichols began his role on September 15, 2008.

About Green Advantage
Green Advantage is a not-for-profit alignment that provides the country's longest-standing Environmental Certification for Building-Related Practitioners. The organization's aim is to accompany consumers, bartering developers, and municipalities calm with Green Advantage Certified architecture practitioners who accept accurate ability about blooming architecture techniques and approaches. Green Advantage's third-party, absolute acceptance affairs was accustomed with admission allotment from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and The Nature Conservancy and developed in accord with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and the University of Florida.

While Green Advantage is not affiliated with any LEED articles or trainings, a LEED Innovation Credit has been accepted if a cogent allotment of a project's architecture force is Green Advantage Certified above-mentioned to the admission of construction.