Nora Fay, LEED AP is Vice President, Corporate Accounts, with Philips/Lightolier, (NYSE: PHG) an international Fortune 100 leader in lighting and electronic products for the commercial, healthcare and consumer markets. Nora has over 20 years experience in high level sales and marketing. She is responsible for developing new corporate national accounts primarily in New York and California. Before joining Philips, she was a principal with LEHR Construction, a major New York City construction firm. She spent just over four years there where she enjoyed much success in the new business development area of the firm. Additionally, she started the LEED Consulting Services division for the firm where she successfully guided clients through the LEED certification process.
Prior to her time in the construction industry, she held a national position as Vice President of Corporate Accounts for Cooper Industries, a $4 billion dollar Fortune 500 manufacturer of electrical products, tools and hardware. She was, at the time, one of 4 executive level women in a company of 28,000 employees worldwide.
After passing the LEED 2.2 NC exam in April 2008, Nora developed a very unique LEED Study Workshop called “Evolutionary Breakthrough” which to date has helped hundreds of professionals study for and pass the various LEED exams. She is an educator for the USGBC and a long time member of CoreNet Global.
Nora has been panellist in several roundtable discussions including Real Estate New York magazine’s “Pulse of the Green Building Market” held at the Penn Club and the Architectural Digest Home Show at Pier 92 both in NYC. She moderated a panel on green strategies in workplace at the CoreNet Global Eastern Regional Symposium at University of Pennsylvania in June of 2010. In January 2010 she was first featured guest on WGCH Greenwich CT’s weekly radio talk show “Juggling Act” with Dr. Lori Sokol. The subject was “Green at Work”. She has been a guest lecturer at NYU School of Continuing Ed. (LEED and Green Construction practices) Parsons School of Design (decorative lighting) and CoreNet Educational programs.
In 2007 she was the Guest of Honor at the Annual St. Francis Food Pantries “Women of Valor” luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria. In 2008 she received the Executive Achievement Award from Professional Women in Construction at the Yale Club in NY. In January of 2009 she was Executive of the Month in the New York Journal of Real Estate and had an article about LEED published in the same magazine later that year.
Nora volunteers her time with students enrolled in the NEW (Non-traditional Employment for Women) where she teaches them about LEED and green construction practices.