Product Evaluation

Wendy Vittori joined the Health Product Declaration Collaborative as Executive Director in May 2015. An accomplished business executive, Ms. Vittori was most recently founder and principal consultant of Vittori Consulting LLC, which provides executive counsel on innovative approaches for strategic management and organization performance to organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. In this capacity she was engaged with the HPDC as a strategic advisor from its inception. Previously, she was a senior executive with both Intel and Motorola, where she was a leader of open industry standards. She serves on several non-profit boards focused on the economic development of the Arizona-Sonora region, and is an associate faculty member at the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation Non-Profit Management Institute. Having begun her career as a software engineer, Ms. Vittori is a graduate of Harvard College, received her MBA from Northeastern University, and was a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Business School.

Frances leads the Sustainable Materials Consulting practice for the Americas region of Arup. She serves on the HPDC Technical Committee and recently served as vice-chair of the Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group of USGBC. She also contributes to the AIA Materials Knowledge working group and the Cradle to Cradle and Carbon Leadership Forum. Frances holds a Masters in engineering from UC Berkeley.

Rhys joined MSR in 1992 as a student intern, and in 1993 as a full-time staff member. His work at MSR has touched a broad range of projects, including libraries, cultural facilities, spaces for nonprofit organizations, and affordable housing. For Rhys, design goes much deeper than just a building. While building trust and a rapport with clients over the last decade, he has sought to establish a strong and vibrant design language for affordable housing, and has developed a passion for exploring the balance between equity distribution within the affordable housing industry and critical thinking. Rhys has a deep interest in data-driven design, and has been a guest lecturer at numerous national and international conferences. His work has received several awards, including an Urban Land Institute Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award for the Rose, a mixed-income housing project in downtown Minneapolis.

Russell Perry is an architect, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a LEED Fellow. He has been focused on sustainable design for the past 22 years as a founding partner of the pioneering consultancy William McDonough + Partners and subsequently as the Director of Sustainable Design for SmithGroupJJR, a 1200-person AE firm. He is currently engaged exclusively in initiatives concerning materials and human health. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, developers of the reporting tool that is standardizing industry-wide communication of building material ingredients. Russ brings this expertise to his role as a founding member of the AIA Materials Knowledge Working Group.