Green Software Foundation Announces New Leadership Appointment: Navveen Balani as Executive Director
GSF founding member and SCI co-chair steps into the Executive Director role as the Foundation enters a new phase of growth.
Delaware, May 6, 2026 – The Green Software Foundation (GSF) proudly announces the appointment of Navveen Balani as its new Executive Director.
As a founding member, Navveen has been pivotal in the Foundation’s standards work from the start, serving as Co-Chair for the ISO Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard and the recently ratified SCI for AI specification, directly shaping the standards that define how organizations measure and reduce the environmental impact of software and AI systems. Navveen’s forward-thinking approach marks an exciting new chapter for the Foundation and the global green software community.
Navveen brings over 25 years of experience at the intersection of technology and sustainability. Most recently, as Managing Director and Chief Technologist for Technology Sustainability Innovation at Accenture, he has been at the forefront of advancing technology sustainability from an emerging concept to an enterprise priority—defining vision and strategy, building awareness, developing assets, platforms, and frameworks, driving measurable client impact, and contributing to ISO standards that are shaping how organizations approach sustainability in software and AI.
He has also played a key role in positioning Accenture as a leader in sustainable technology services, as recognized in industry evaluations by Forrester and Everest Group. Internally, he helped lead Green AI transformation across Accenture’s CIO organization, evolving it from awareness to value realization through measurable improvements in cost, carbon, energy, and system efficiency.
He is a Google Cloud Certified Fellow, a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI, and the author of over 20 books on AI, sustainability, and emerging technologies. His latest book, Lean Agentic AI, is the first to present a comprehensive framework for balancing cost, energy, carbon, and system complexity in designing and developing agentic AI systems.
“The need for sustainable software and AI has never been more urgent. Having been part of the Green Software Foundation since its early days, I’ve seen how a set of ideas can evolve into global standards and real-world impact.
We are now at a defining moment where sustainability must become a core design principle of every software and AI system. I’m excited to take on this role to accelerate this shift—helping organizations move from awareness to measurable outcomes across cost, carbon, energy, water, and waste, while advancing global progress through education, standards, policy, innovation, and collective action.” — Navveen Balani, Executive Director, GSF
“Navveen has been at the heart of the Foundation’s standards work—co-chairing the SCI standard, now ISO approved, and leading the development of the ratified SCI for AI specification. His appointment as Executive Director reflects the depth of his contribution and the Steering Committee’s confidence in his ability to lead the Foundation into its next chapter”.— Gadhu Sundaram, Chair, GSF
Navveen succeeds Asim Hussain, who stepped down at the end of March 2026 after nearly five years leading the Foundation into the global community it is today.
Under Navveen’s leadership, the GSF remains committed to accelerating industry-wide adoption of sustainable software practices, expanding its global network of trained professionals, and advancing the tools and knowledge needed to reduce the environmental footprint of software and AI.
The Foundation warmly invites all members and the broader green software community to welcome Navveen to his new role.
About the Green Software Foundation
The Green Software Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization under the Linux Foundation. It creates a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software and hardware. Members represent a balanced mix of for-profits, nonprofits, and academia from around the globe, and include several Fortune Global 500 firms. The Foundation operates by consensus across three Working Groups—Software Standards, Hardware Standards, Policy, and the Green AI committee.
The Steering Committee includes Accenture, Google, NTT Data, Siemens, and UBS.
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