Founder and CEO, Sol Design + ConsultingMr. Rathod is a licensed architect with a Master’s degree in Architecture, and brings 25 years of international design and construction experience of working on large complex projects. He maintains the highest standards of global knowledge, experience and leadership in sustainable design through active involvement in the profession, academia and community. Sol Design + Consulting is a Cincinnati-based firm which provides sustainability consulting and green building certification services. As an Enterprise Green Communities and LEED provider and verifier, Mr. Rathod has certified over 5,000 residential and commercial units in over 15 states and globally. Sol certified the nation’s first LEED for Homes Midrise Platinum housing for the homeless in 2010, and has recently certified the first international Platinum LEED for Homes project in all of the Middle East.