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William M. Sisson
Director, Sustainability, UTRC, Co-Chair WBCSD Buildings Project, United Technologies Corporation, USA
William Sisson is presently the Director, Sustainability and since 2006 the co-chair for UTC in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Energy Efficiency in Buildings Project. The Project is a multi-corporation, broad reaching, holistic look at the building life cycle with the intent to bring forward new directions for the collective industry to reach zero net energy buildings that are environmentally neutral and socially acceptable, while preserving business growth and profit objectives.
In 2001, he as appointed Director, Carrier Programs, at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), in East Hartford, Connecticut, the central corporate research center for United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Carrier Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Mr. Sisson was previously Global Product Manager for Commercial Controls at Carrier Electronics, Carrier Corporation.
Mr. Sisson began his career at UTRC in 1985, where he served a variety of increasingly responsible roles. In 1998, Mr. Sisson was sponsored by UTC to attend the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he developed a business innovation thesis entitled "Fueling Innovation and Growth Strategies using Corporate Venturing".
He completed his undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech in Engineering Science and Mechanics, received his M S in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was awarded an MBA from the Sloan School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) provides high technology products and services to the aerospace and commercial building industries worldwide. UTC products include Otis elevators, escalators and people movers; Carrier heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems; UTC Fire & Security fire safety and security products; UTC Power fuel cells and on-site cooling, heating and power; Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines; Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems; and Sikorsky helicopters.