GREEN CANARY. YOUR CONSULTANT IN A BOX.

Our team brings together top sustainability experts, technologists, and building performance leaders who have spent their careers solving the real problems that slow projects down. Their experience shaped a platform that delivers the clarity, guidance, and decision support teams used to depend on consultants for, now built directly into your workflow.

Summer Fowler

Founder and CEO

WELL Faculty, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Summer Fowler is a recognized leader in sustainable and equitable building practices, known for bringing clarity and practicality to a field that often feels overly complicated. She began her career at Sienna Architecture in Seattle working on some of the earliest high-performance projects, including Living Buildings and LEED ND pilots. That early exposure set the trajectory for her work: making healthy, high-performing buildings achievable for every owner and project team.

Her years on federal jobsites showed her where projects struggle most. She lived with the trades, navigated the paperwork, and watched RFIs, change orders, and unclear sustainability requirements derail well-intended teams. Instead of accepting inefficiency as part of the process, she built tools and workflows that naturally integrate sustainability from specifications through construction. These systems helped owners hit performance targets, pass indoor air quality tests, and move toward WELL, LEED, and Net Zero goals with far less friction.

Summer has guided cities, counties, school districts, nonprofits, and private developers toward results they didn’t think were possible. Her leadership supported the City of Portland’s move from LEED Platinum to pursuing the first municipal WELL certification in the Northwest, helped nonprofits reach Net Zero through incentives, and advanced projects across the Architecture 2030 challenge. Her expertise in WELL, healthy materials, and sustainable procurement makes her a trusted partner for organizations that want outcomes, not overwhelm.

All of this shaped the foundation for Green Canary Software. Drawing from decades of hands-on experience, Summer created a platform that automates the essential checks, documentation, and decision-making that used to require a specialist on every project. Her Healthy Material Tracking system flags emission risks automatically and empowers subcontractors to contribute to compliance in the normal flow of submittals. The result is straightforward: teams deliver healthier, higher-performing buildings while staying focused on the work in front of them. Summer’s driving belief is simple and unwavering: healthy, sustainable buildings should be easy to achieve and accessible to all.

Pamela Gorder

Chief Revenue Officer

Pamela brings a rare blend of sustainable building knowledge, business development experience, and public-sector insight to Canary’s growth strategy. She began her career in hotel property management before joining ecoREAL Solutions, where she supported LEED workshops, charrettes, and one of the region’s first WELL Building initiatives. Her work on the Portland Building helped set the stage for the Northwest’s first municipal pursuit of WELL certification.

Committed to expanding access for small and emerging firms, Pamela participated in the City of Portland’s Harvard MBA program for small business owners and worked through the Sheltered Market Program to prepare diverse contractors for larger government projects. She later partnered with the Portland Development Commission to develop TalentWell, a virtual platform connecting small businesses with architects and builders.

Pamela’s leadership reflects a deep belief in widening opportunity within the green building industry. She and founder Summer Fowler have presented internationally on “WELL Building for All,” advocating for healthier, more equitable spaces as a baseline, not a luxury. At Canary, she focuses on helping organizations adopt tools that simplify sustainability, strengthen their market position, and deliver better outcomes for the communities they serve.

Before her transition into sustainable building leadership, Pamela built a diverse foundation in hospitality, property management, design, and sales. She spent seven years in property management roles at Far West Federal Bank, Otter Crest, and the Inn at Seventh Mountain, after launching her career in convention sales with Red Lion properties along the West Coast. Pamela later led a commercial property design group, working on high-profile sites such as US Bank and the Standard Building. Her community leadership extended into her church, where she served as President and led strategic property sales for the congregation. Pamela also brought her sales acumen to Interesting Exhibit Corp, where she secured major accounts including Mentor Graphics and AT&T.

James Hickman

Chief Technology Architect

James is the principal architect behind Canary’s software platform. With a deep background in full-stack development, he specializes in turning complex operational problems into clean, reliable, and efficient digital tools that teams actually enjoy using. His work focuses on automation, data clarity, and scalability, creating systems that remove friction from tasks that traditionally drain time and create bottlenecks.

Before building Canary, James engineered solutions for industries where accuracy and efficiency were non-negotiable. These experiences shaped his approach to sustainability tech: simple is powerful, consistency is everything, and the software should support people, not slow them down. His architecture connects cloud and local data sources, structures material tracking workflows, and ensures LEED and WELL documentation processes stay intuitive from start to finish.

James’s commitment is straightforward. Build technology that helps teams move faster, make better decisions, and deliver healthier buildings with confidence. Canary’s functionality and reliability reflect his belief that sustainability becomes achievable when the tools remove complexity instead of creating it.

Brent Ward

Director of Existing Buildings

Brent leads Canary’s strategy for existing buildings, offering decades of hands-on facility management experience across education, banking, and laboratory environments. He has built a career around helping organizations improve building performance through thoughtful sustainability practices, smart energy decisions, and practical solutions that respect real-world constraints.

A recognized leader within IFMA, Brent has served as President, Vice President, Treasurer, and now Immediate Past President of the Oregon–Southwest Washington chapter. He also serves on the Americas Advisory Board, the IFMA Foundation, and the Facility Management Consulting Council. His writing is featured in industry journals, business publications, and IFMA’s FMJ magazine, and he frequently speaks on the future of building performance and sustainable facility operations.

Raised in a construction family, Brent blends technical know-how, operational insight, and a strong sustainability mindset. He sees sustainability as a profit center, not a cost burden, and focuses on uncovering efficiencies that strengthen both performance and long-term value. At Canary, he helps clients upgrade existing facilities with healthier materials, better energy use, and practical pathways toward higher building standards.

Joshua Pasos

Product Director

Josh oversees product strategy and development for Canary, ensuring the platform evolves to meet the needs of sustainability professionals and construction teams. He works closely with DevOps to shape features, refine functionality, and maintain a user experience that makes complex certification tasks feel simple and manageable.

With a mechanical engineering background and a Master’s in Architecture from the University of Oregon, Josh brings a unique mix of technical, design, and systems thinking to Canary’s roadmap. His experience spans sustainable materials, high-performance building systems, LEED and WELL certifications, HPD and EPD documentation, and the entire lifecycle of materials and environmental compliance.

Before joining Canary, Josh worked as a reliability engineer in the nuclear sector and later at McKenzie Architects, where he managed projects focused on healthy materials, indoor environmental quality, Net Zero performance, and ESG strategy. His work is grounded in a passion for building tools that support equitable, sustainable outcomes at scale.

At Green Canary, Josh translates real-world challenges into software that keeps teams focused, organized, and confident in their sustainability goals.

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"The Green Canary platform provides a useful and customizable organization to track the various LEED v4 metrics on a project. The  ability to track and organize this information is critical to successfully attaining construction credits in LEED v4."

      Race Clark, PM 

       Hoffman Construction 

       Multnomah County Central Courthouse 

The Companies We Support

We have a wide variety of customers who rely on Green Canary for their compliance software. We are proud to have contributed to the successful completion of their projects.

Green Canary changes the game by leveling the playing field enabling small, minority, and individuals with the power to comply with standards without drowning in a complex sea of paperwork and process.

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