Management Team

Patricia Chase, President and Urban Strategist

PatriciaAn urban strategist, Patricia has worked with real estate developers, architects, politicians, and senior city staff to expose them to global best practices in urban sustainability. She has lead over 30 professional research missions to cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. She has served as the managing partner on research and communication projects for both the public and private sectors. Through both professional research missions and a variety of communication projects, she has facilitated the public and private sector coming together in a shared vision. She is co-authoring a book entitled, “Envisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideas” with University of Washington professor Nancy Rivenburgh.
As a recognition of her work with i-SUSTAIN, Patricia was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 2007 “for creating a uniquely effective program to educate and inspire political and business leaders through international models of sustainable design and development.”
At the request of the Mayor of Seattle, Greg Nickels, she was a member of the 2008 Mayor’s Green Building Task Force, which provided guidance on appropriate policy mechanisms that would reduce the energy use of new and existing buildings by 20%. As a result of the task force, changes in the law regarding building energy disclosure requirements have been enacted in Seattle and have spread to other US cities.
Patricia has served as a Board Member of the Cascade Bicycle Club, the largest bicycling organization in the US. In 2010, she was made a Fellow with the World Affairs Council, and she was on the board of Great Cities, an urban advocacy group. She co-founded two non-profit organizations, the International Sustainability Institute (ISI) and KidzMusic, a music education site for school age children, both 501 C-3 organizations.
Patricia has always been an entrepreneur. Prior to i-SUSTAIN, from 1987 to 2001, she owned and operated Chase Bobko, a leader in the content management field. The firm had up to 200 employees at any one time, and worked for major corporations such as Microsoft, Boeing and Motorola along with many leading dot.coms. Chase Bobko was honored by the Washington State Software Association for creating and funding “Kids on the Web,” a program in the late 1990s in which Chase Bobko staff taught under-resourced teens web development skills.

Sandy Palmer Neale, Business Development Manager, European Region

SandyNeale_headshotSandy Palmer Neale has been developing communications and events that increase visibility for the solutions and benefits of sustainability since 2005, including work on Puget Sound Energy’s Energy Efficiency Services and Green Power Program; the co-authoring and launch of Monday Morning Global Institute’s Sustainia Guide to Co-Creating Health; the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Environment and Health programme; and i-SUSTAIN’s US/Denmark/Sweden professional research delegations.

Before relocating to Copenhagen, Denmark, Sandy was Seattleite for nearly a decade and is a co-founder, board member and performer at the comedy/varieté Moisture Festival.