CP900 SYMPOSIUM
Go Green Now:
Embracing Energy Efficiency,
Healthy Housing and Green Building
Atlanta, Georgia • February 27, 2008
Speaker Profile: Ed Mcnamara 
Ed McNamara has over 30 years of experience in construction and in private sector and non-profit real estate development. In 2002, Ed started his own company - Turtle Island Development, LLC – to focus on affordable and market-rate multifamily development.
Ed’s experience includes:
- 12 years in construction as a carpenter, subcontractor, and general contractor,
- 11 years in community-based development
- 7 years as Executive Director of REACH Community Development, a nonprofit based in southeast Portland,
- 4 years as Director of the Neighborhood Partnership Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation,
- 1 year as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, and
- 11 years in private sector real estate development
- 6 years working for a private developer in Portland
- 5 years running his own company
committed to the building and preservation of sustainable housing