CEO, Founding Partner
Entegrity
Chris Ladner is the CEO of Entegrity, a consulting firm focused on energy efficiency and the sustainability and performance of buildings and aims to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions for any client, from industrial-grade composting stations that created efficiency savings for a correctional facility to solar energy at Arkansas’s Batesville School District resulting in teacher raises. Entegrity has been recognized as the 2012 Sustainable Business of the Year, ranked on the 2014 and 2015 Inc. 5000 lists of fastest-growing companies in America, and named as one of Arkansas’s Best Places to Work for five years in a row. Armed with a B.S. in industrial engineering from Iowa State, Chris is a Certified Energy Manager, Energy Auditor, Commissioning Measurement and Verification Professional, and Commissioning Authority. His expertise spans Net-Zero buildings, embodied carbon, solar power, performance
contracting, HVAC systems, and industrial controls. Chris has acted as Commissioner on the Arkansas Governor’s Commission on Global Warming and a consultant for the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI). The first LEED Fellow in Arkansas, Chris has decades of experience with Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED). He aided in developing his local U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) chapter, advised in the creation of LEED v2009, and served as a member and Chair of the Chapter Steering Committee for the Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group. As part of the Technical Advisory Group, Chris was awarded The President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2014. His portfolio of LEED projects ranges from facilities for Fortune 500 companies to Entegrity’s own headquarters: a renovated building listed on the National Register of Historic Places that earned distinction as the first LEED Zero Energy building in the United States and second in the world. Chris was also a part of the Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group (EA TAG) for USGBC.