Chief Experience Officer, USGBC California
Colin Mangham focuses on the scale and adoption of innovations across the built environment. With USGBC California, he connects emerging technologies with market demand to accelerate progress toward net zero. Rooted in entrepreneurial business development, he has spent more than three decades in senior leadership roles, including four as Chief Marketing Officer, guiding global brands through strategy, growth, and reinvention, contributing to more than $500 million in revenue and helping raise over $85 million in growth capital.
With the Net Zero Accelerator (NZA), he has mentored more than 100 companies, supporting commercialization, investor readiness, and market deployment at scale. He is also a co-founder of companies including Morpho Energy, advancing solar, storage, and efficiency across commercial and industrial portfolios. A TEDx speaker and frequent lecturer on nature-based innovation at universities including UCLA, USC, Reutlingen University in Germany, and the University of Helsinki, his work aligns innovation, human behavior, and systems thinking to drive measurable, lasting impact.
