Jeffrey Abramson is a partner in the Tower Companies, an award-winning family-owned real estate development company in Rockville, Maryland and the largest green developer in the Washington, DC area.. A top international authority on green building technology, he sets new standards for green development in business, residential, retail, and mixed-use real estate environments. Company projects have included a 200,000 square-foot LEED Platinum office building incorporating Vedic architectual design standards, America's first LEED-certified multi-family rental housing community, and one of the largest LEED renovations of 1,400 apartment units in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is a former trustee of the National Building Museum and serves on the boards of the David Lynch Foundation and the Maharishi University of Management He has also funded extensive medical and Transcendental Meditation research.