Vicky Keramida, Ph.D.

CEO, Chief Technical Officer and Founder, KERAMIDA Inc.

Dr. Keramida is the CEO, Chief Technical Officer and founder of KERAMIDA Inc., a global sustainability, engineering and consulting company. The firm was established in 1988 and serves industries, businesses, banks, private equity firms, cities, and governments worldwide with strategy and implementation services in: Sustainability, Greenhouse Gases, Decarbonization, Energy, Environmental Compliance, Health & Safety, ISO Management Systems, Remediation, Due Diligence, Brownfields Redevelopment, Plant Decommissioning, Risk Management, and Training.

Dr. Keramida holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Keramida has received many awards for technical excellence and business leadership, including Purdue University’s Civil Engineering Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, and American Foundry Society’s Life Achievement Award. She is a frequent lecturer at Purdue University’s School of Civil Engineering.

Dr. Keramida has played a lead role in conceiving and developing KERAMIDA’s Sustainability Model Program for Cities, including Sustainability Metrics for Capital Projects and Rebirth of City Economies through Rivers. She has played a lead role in municipal planning projects, including Successful Integration of Industries into Cities, Brownfields Redevelopment for Neighborhood Revitalization, the creation through legislation of a Taxing Authority responsible for cleaning up a Superfund Site, Reuse of Superfund Sites, Sustainable Development of Parks on Remediated Superfund Sites, Regional Water Quality Planning, and Regional Water Resources Management.

In the industrial arena, Dr. Keramida is leading KERAMIDA’s GreenStep™ Sustainability Initiative, a planning process and metrics rating system for Sustainable businesses and industry, enabling them to establish a sustainability foundation for their strategic and operational needs, which can reduce costs and risks, and meet the needs of investors and other stakeholders.

In 2000, Dr. Keramida founded a Sustainability research and development company in California, Technikon LLC, and privatized a U.S. Department of Defense 5-year old green manufacturing research program. Technikon LLC, whose major clients included the U.S. DOD and U.S. car manufacturers, focused its sustainability research on green manufacturing to eliminate air pollution and wastes, as well as on validation of Biomass-to-Energy-to-Diesel processes. In 2011, when its research for the U.S. DOD was completed, Technikon LLC became a not-for-profit institute.