Mr. Winters is Senior Director - Market Development & Strategic Initiatives for GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for private equity real estate and infrastructure portfolios. Primary responsibilities include institutional investor and fund manager engagement, new product deployment, sourcing upstream capital market partner opportunities, pursuing business development activities, and delivering key account management in the Americas region. While leading GRESB Americas, the region grew to surpass over 400 leading institutional investors, private equity firms and listed companies in US + Canada + LatAm [2014-2021].

Mr. Winters is Senior Director - Market Development & Strategic Initiatives for GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for private equity real estate and infrastructure portfolios. Primary responsibilities include institutional investor and fund manager engagement, new product deployment, sourcing upstream capital market partner opportunities, pursuing business development activities, and delivering key account management in the Americas region. While leading GRESB Americas, the region grew to surpass over 400 leading institutional investors, private equity firms and listed companies in US + Canada + LatAm [2014-2021]. 

Prior to GRESB included serving the US Green Building Council as its Senior Fellow - Business Strategy & Finance, harnessing extensive professional experience with institutional investment that included tenures at Russell Real Estate and CBRE. Mr Winters has degrees from Harvard, SMU and UW. He previously served as adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Colvin Institute of Real Estate, and is currently a Counselor of Real Estate.