Steve brings a variety of experience to his role as founder of Green Phoenix Development. The genesis of GPD was Steve’s personal experience owning several older homes in Massachusetts over the last 25 years; each, while attractive and historically interesting, had been renovated without much consideration for how the home performed as a system. This led Steve to wonder why so many older home renovations (or, for that matter, most new homes) failed to take advantage of advances in building science to produce durable, healthy, and efficient homes that still retained an historic character. Steve decided to apply his diverse background in engineering, finance, and building science to this question, and the result was Green Phoenix. After earning a degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT, Steve served eight years as a naval officer in a variety of seagoing assignments. This was followed by an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a 20-year career as an analyst and portfolio manager at local mutual fund firm Fidelity Investments. After retiring from Fidelity, Steve returned to school, completing a graduate program in Sustainable Residential Design at the Boston Architectural College, and earning his LEED AP accreditation with a specialty in homes. With this background, Steve formed Green Phoenix to find older, architecturally interesting homes that would lend themselves to comprehensive renovations to make them efficient and healthy while updating them for the way modern families live.