Dr. Ladan Ghobad is a building scientist and building performance simulation specialist with a Ph.D. degree in sustainable design. Ladan is the CEO and founder of ENERlite, a sustainability consulting firm, that provides advanced simulation and analysis to the building design community to help them reach ambitious energy-efficiency and carbon reduction goals. Ladan is a 40 Under 40 honoree, an AIA CA COTE member, and a proud recipient of the DOE SBIR grant for innovative and advanced building energy modeling tools.