President, Founder & Chief Building Scientist

Matt Golden is the co-founder and president of Sustainable Spaces. Prior to founding the company in 2004, Matt worked as an Energy Consultant, helping homeowners and businesses develop solar power systems. He soon realized that he was offering only a point solution and was not truly addressing most homeowners' desires to make their homes and lives more sustainable. Matt developed the concept for Sustainable Spaces to meet this market demand by providing a single, full-service resource and a brand homeowners can trust to help them improve the comfort, health, and efficiency of their home.

Matt was recently recognized by the Building Performance Institute as the first ever recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry. He speaks extensively on building science and integrated green design to groups such as the AIA (American Institute of Architects), West Coast Green, Build It Green, and others. He is author of a number of articles for Home Energy Magazine and has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Forbes, New York Times, and the Ellen Degeneres Show. Matt currently resides on the following boards: Department of Energy (DOE) Home Performance Council, Building Performance Institute (BPI), California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA), Build It Green, and Fine Home Building Magazine Green Building Advisory Board.

Matt holds a bachelors degree in foreign relations from Georgetown University.

Dan Kartzman
Vice President of Information Systems

In 2006, Dan's ambition to help create a minimal impact world moved him from New York to San Francisco, and into an executive position at Sustainable Spaces. In his role as Vice President of Information Systems, Dan focuses on developing the operational and informational procedures of Sustainable Spaces. Contributing to his work on operational development, Dan leads the sales and testing teams, and has more than doubled their size since his inception.

Dan came to Sustainable Spaces with a background in computer science and extensive experience in business consulting. Before graduating with honors from New York University, Dan had established his own tech consulting firm and helped numerous businesses improve their company-wide information systems and websites. His focus on leveraging technology to fix business inefficiencies was developed through years of consulting with major national companies in diverse industries. At Sustainable Spaces, these skills convolve with Dan's passion to reduce residential energy use and shrink the U.S. carbon footprint. His goal is to retrofit every home in the U.S. to make all residential structures more efficient.

Dan holds a B.A. in Computer Science from New York University. He is Building Performance Institute certified and a certified Green Professional.

Chief Culture Officer

Patch (Carol) Garcia is a veteran of the Bay Area's sustainability movement. At the onset of the dot-com, she returned to California from Manhattan where she had managed the Real Estate Lending Division of ABC television’s credit union (ABEFCU). While working in the burgeoning Internet industry, she dove head-first into what she calls the “Green Scene” by volunteering and joining organizations such as Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (www.norcal-adpsr.org), the Women's Environmental Network (www.wencal.org) and the Green Resource Center (www.greenresourcecenter.org). She also served on the Board of Directors of the Sustainable Business Alliance (www.sustainablebiz.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to building a green business community.

Patch's interest in energy and volunteer background lead her to a senior management position with Berkeley-based, Sun Light and Power. Her ability to attract top-notch employees and to grow a small construction firm into one of San Francisco's Fastest Growing Companies is a strength that will aid in building Sustainable Spaces into a national brand.

Patch is responsible for overseeing all aspects of hiring, training and cultural development. In her spare time she enjoys pottery, baking, shopping local Farmers' Markets and camping with her family.

Vice President of Product Development

Joel joins Sustainable Spaces from Google, the world's largest online search company, where he was engineering director. At Google, Truher worked on search and maps infrastructure.

Prior to Google, Truher was executive vice president at Epinions.com, where he oversaw all product development. When Epinions.com became a part ofShopping.com, Truher became chief architect and vice president of Engineering, responsible for all search and user-facing website technology.. Before joining Epinions.com, Truher held the position of chief technology officer at Lycos, where he led the team responsible for search engine products and research.

Truher received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his Bachelor of Art degree in Physics and Math from UC Santa Cruz.

CEO

Pratap Mukherjee joined Sustainable Spaces in early 2008 with the passionate belief that the solutions that will make the biggest impacts on our environmental crises are those that improve people's current quality of life at the same time they preserve our natural resources. This drew him to focus his career on energy efficiency and building performance and set his goals on spreading the message that we can live more comfortably, more economically, and more sustainably all at the same time.

Pratap is a veteran CEO of high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Most recently, he co-founded and grew Beacon Fire & Safety, LP, which grew in the span of 5 years to become one of the nation's largest fire protection service companies. As CEO, he focused on building the best team in the industry, providing the highest level of customer service, and driving growth through strategic acquisitions and the industry's most professional sales team. Previously, Pratap was the co-founder and CEO of an Internet start-up in the automobile marketplace and Research Associate at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Pratap holds an MBA, an MA in Education, an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems, and a AB in Quantitative Economics, all from Stanford University. He is an active member of Vistage International, the world's largest CEO membership organization.  Pratap lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Vice President of Operations

Adam brings to Sustainable Spaces a wealth of experience, ranging from project management to environmental restoration. He currently oversees all remediation operations and acts as lead consultant to some of the Bay Area's top green contractors, architects, and developers.

Adam moved to San Francisco after completing a Bachelor of Science in Renewable Resource Management at University of British Columbia (UBC) and running environmental and watershed restoration projects throughout the province. Adam changed career courses upon his arrival in San Francisco to focus on project management in the technology field, implementing sales force automation systems for a world-wide sales force and managing software development for a fast paced startup.

Having returned to his environmental calling as a core member of the Sustainable Spaces Team, Adam is trained in a wide range of building science disciplines. He is a certified Green Building Professional and GreenPoints Rater.

Vice President of Marketing

Sandra joined Sustainable Spaces in September 2008 with a desire to apply her extensive experience in marketing, innovation and public relations to a company that was providing innovative solutions to improve the quality of peoples' lives while also improving the environment. Sustainable Spaces was an ideal match.

With more than 20 years of marketing and brand development experience, Sandra brings an impressive background in building strong brands to the company. At Sustainable Spaces, she oversees all aspects of developing the marketing program to support the company's objective of becoming homeowners' trusted advisor for energy efficiency and indoor air quality.

Stumbaugh's prior posts include Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Nestle USA, Clorox, Boudin Bakery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and San Francisco Ballet.