Jonathan Balas, Aia, Leed-Ap Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Head of sustainability for the largest self-storage REIT. Dedicated to enhancing the company’s position as the industry’s most trusted, admired, and recognized brand through strategies focused on long-term value creation through sustainability and resilience. • Leads sustainability reporting including the annual sustainability report, CDP disclosure, and more. Company listed in the top 6% of Sustainalytics global coverage universe and named as Nareit’s “Leader in the Light” for demonstrated sustainability practices.• Responsible for establishing the company’s long-term first scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target with corresponding roadmap, accounting measures, and systems. • Oversees energy and water conservation in a managed portfolio of over 3,000 properties, over 230 million net rentable square feet, along with an ambitious rooftop solar program.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Leadership: Developed and maintained relevant and distinctive sustainability strategy, goals, and targets to build Yum!’s position in key sustainability areas while keeping focus on managing risk, enhancing brand trust, driving accountability, meeting business needs, and improving restaurant economics. Elevated sustainability knowledge and cross-brand matrixed collaboration among associates and provided decision enabling information to leadership and board of directors. Contributed to improved valuation by identifying, improving, and disclosing on key sustainability performance measures vital to investor and government expectations. • Climate Action and Green Savings: Drove corporate response to address climate action by setting science-based targets, decarbonization strategy focused on energy conservation in buildings, use of renewable energy, and emission reductions for prioritized supply chain areas. Coordinated action with supply chain, development, and sustainability functions, while maintaining accountability for progress.• ESG Reporting & Data: Held responsibility for corporate ESG reporting, with investor focus, including corporate sustainability report data, CDP, DJSI, S&P, ISS, GRI, SASB, ISSB, TCFD and CSRD. Preparation for pending SEC rules. Held responsibility for ESG data collection, system development, analytics, and oversight to enable investor grade reporting and empowering action to meet commitments.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Assisted setting Yum! sustainability strategy and goal setting for past ten years working to implement recipe for good growth which relied on triple bottom line approach people, planet, and profits to deliver shareholder value.• Supported internal and external communications on environmental issues, including press releases, articles, CEO briefs, etc.• Pioneered sustainability in the company and created a path with entrepreneurial enthusiasm for first-ever role in company.• Started Yum! China on path of sustainability by partnering on their first LEED buildings, assisting in evaluation of technologies, and coaching on ESG reporting and corporate goal setting. • Led implementation of energy & water conservation measures which have saved company millions of dollars over last 15 years.• Wrote industry leading restaurant standard, for restaurants to drive energy and water conservation. Lessons integrated into global development platforms for thousands of locations.• Elevated Yum! sustainability report to investor grade through leveraging data and key reporting frameworks of GRI and SASB, as well as leading charge to conduct materiality assessments to focus corporate efforts.• Held responsibility for getting company repeatedly listed on prestigious DJSI listing. Improving CDP scores from lagging to consistently leading. Elevated Yum’s MSCI rating from CCC to A. Now ranked highest among restaurants overall.• Provided data-based recommendations to enable value chain action in reducing single use plastics, increasing recycling, supporting sustainable cooking oils, transportation improvements, and increasing use of renewable paper-based products.• Led stakeholder engagement with beef, dairy, and poultry though national cross-chain partnership to educate suppliers and encourage them to set science-based targets. Water risk assessments through WRI Aqueduct to understand global footprint.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Oversaw global design and construction of over 30 LEED buildings around the world.• Tested and sub-metered energy and water saving technologies in buildings; established savings of 20% to 30% for green buildings.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Managed development and roll out of new restaurant design iteration. Tracked projected and actual cost of units across wide swath of corporate and franchisee units to provide data driven recommendations for improvement. Championed and built KFC’s first LEED building in Indianapolis. Project completed at equal cost to that of non-green building, to the surprise of leadership. Supported internal and external communications on environmental issues. Created KFC change management process for development function which involved extensive team interviews, development of detailed functional software frameworks, partnering with software developers, and conducting training.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Focused on value engineering, construction, and building design strategies for optimization of Yum! Development processes across all brands. Managed national vendor accounts (i.e signage), consultants (i.e. architects and engineers) including managing proposal processes. Assisted brand design teams in developing field ready prototypes and construction detailing with detailed and technical reviews of materials, methods, and costs. Provided annual 5% reduction in cost of development across all brands though focus on competitive leverage of scale, review of specifications, and construction techniques. Collected, analyzed, and implemented opportunities for improvement.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Worked for the John Milner Associates Preservation division• Held responsibility for historic building assessments, site evaluation, designing renovations and additions for leading national preservation and restoration company. Completed detailed documentation and architectural and engineering assessment of locally iconic University of Virginia’s President House. Served as chair of corporate organization review committee. Member of project management leadership team.

Greater Boston Area

A division of Page Southerland Page, Inc.• Served as architect leading cross functional team of designers and engineers for restoration, adaptive reuse with green building analysis and energy saving measures. Participated in securing projects on interview teams, conducting feasibility studies, design, project management, and construction administration simultaneously on academic and government projects. Led pre-design through construction management services of award-winning $120MM restoration of Harvard University's Widener Library which included upgrading building mechanical systems to ensure energy efficient long-term collection preservation. Team member on window and facade restoration analysis for historic "Main Group" of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United Nations, General Assembly Restoration initial planning for restoration.

Master'S Degree, Architecture, Certificate Of Historic Preservation

Bachelor'S Degree, History, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa