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Karen Leigh Cook, President of EECOM, is one of a select group of LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) accredited real estate brokers in the country. Ms. Cook has 18 years of commercial real estate and development experience across numerous geographic markets and property types. Ms. Cook has worked both the tenant representation and principal (owner) sides of the acquisition and leasing process and is expert in understanding the motivations of buyers and sellers. Ms. Cook has also applied her development and brokerage skills to turning around a downtown market in what was reported to be one of the fastest downtown turnarounds in this country.
Ms. Cook is the founding president of the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) New Mexico Chapter and is actively involved in Green Building initiatives nationally. Karen’s activities include working with the National Association of Realtors on defining its role in the green building industry and participating in the development of the Green Building Finance Consortium. She is a representative of the United States on the Advisory Group assisting the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s research into the Opportunities and Challenges of Green Buildings. She chairs the New Mexico Governor’s Green Building Task force that wrote the State’s Green Building Executive order and is working on incentive policy recommendations. Karen is a frequent speaker on real estate and related green issues nationally.
EECOM focuses on sustainable policy and program development. The company develops comprehensive incentive policy packages, marketing and communication/training programs, and assists in the implementation of its recommendations in the public arena and at a company or organizational level. EECOM employs a patented real-time, private network, cultural simulation modeling analysis to create dynamic solutions to some of our most challenging economic issues.
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