He has over fifteen years of commercial experience with the Virgin Group, latterly serving as CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa. He started his career with McKinsey & Co. after graduating BA Hons. from Oxford University reading Philosophy, Politics & Economics.
In parallel to his work at Time4Good, he is a member of the board of trustees at Earthplace and serves on the mayoral Green Task Force in his hometown of Westport, CT (which also recently targeted a ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ sustainability goal).
Carl is Senior Vice President of Hatch Infrastructure, responsible for strategy and business development. His responsibilities in that role include: Working with clients and project teams to achieve project expectations for cost, schedule, scope and community benefits; Assisting clients in liaising and coordinating with key project stakeholders; Business unit strategy. He was also the Water & Wastewater Practice Leader for Canada from 2005 to 2016. Carl is regularly invited to moderate and participate in expert panels on subjects such as infrastructure funding, the value of water, sustainability and urban resiliency. He has also contributed to several thought-leadership reports on water and urban sustainability. Between 2011 and 2016, Carl was the Chair of the Ontario Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure, an umbrella group of six professional organizations (MEA, MFOA, OGRA, OPWA, OWWA and WEAO) working together to promote safe and sustainable infrastructure in Ontario.
Carl has also served on the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Global Committee. As a past member of the Infrastructure Committee of the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBoT), Carl developed policy positions and advocated for the strong infrastructure important to the Greater Toronto Area’s economic competitiveness and quality of life. He is currently a member of the Smart City Working Group jointly chaired by the City of Toronto / TRBoT and also chairs the Stakeholder & Outreach sub-group. Carl is currently a member of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority’s Source Water Protection Committee.
Sought out for actionable insight on social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends, Sanjay has been a strategy consultant to Insurance Bureau of Canada and Centre for Social Innovation’s Agents of Change: Climate Solutions Program. Ford Motor Co.’s chief futurist invited Sanjay's contributions to Ford Trends 2017 and Ford Trends 2018. He is a founding member of the Loblaw Food Council, launched in 2016 by Loblaws, Canada's food and pharmacy leader.
Media outlets featuring Sanjay include The Globe and Mail, CBC’s The Current, and AMA Quarterly, the journal of the American Management Association.
I have assembled a small group of leading online companies to create an interactive microsite (act4us) and will be encouraging Canadians (and their family members, friends and neighbours) to discover where they stand on climate change and how to speak with peers to encourage more action. This initiative is critical during the 2019 election year in Canada and it can serve as a pilot project for the 2020 U.S. election. June 2019 is the launch date. Sponsor and partners are encouraged to contact me to participate.
Dr. Ratcliffe is a Founding Board Member of Rethink Sustainability Initiatives, a member of Citizen’s Climate Lobby (Canada) and he is profiled on ca.linkedin.com/in/billratcliffe. Bill brings 40 years of marketing research, business management, marketing/communications experience to this initiative - along with an abiding interest in what it takes to influence human behaviour. Bill worked with Health Canada to de-normalize smoking. Now we need to de-normalize fossil fuel use.
Prior to joining Engineers Canada, she led the Canadian Urban Development & Infrastructure Sector and the Global Sustainable Cities teams at a large global consulting firm where her teams focused on the strategic integration of cutting-edge international innovation and knowledge into value-creating solutions for public and private clients. For more than 20 years, she has directed and participated in numerous projects related to urban intensification and the sustainable revitalization of communities.
A dedicated volunteer on several Boards over the years, Jeanette is a Fellow of Engineers Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the Province of Ontario “Leading Women Building Communities Award”, and a Canada’s Clean50 2014 honouree. In 2015, she received the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Excellence Medal and was named one of the WXN Top 100.
Prior to joining PVH, Melanie worked at Ernst & Young as Market Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Services. There she provided her clients with assistance across a range of services including risk assessments, internal audits, strategy development, and non-financial reporting advisory and assurance. Before that, she spent 15 years in law and policy, first practicing commercial and environmental law, and then working as a Senior Policy Advisor at the international level.
Melanie lives in Toronto and attended Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, where she received a Bachelor of Laws. She also holds a Master of Laws from the University of London. Melanie sits on various boards and committees and is a regular speaker on corporate social responsibility and risk management.
Her recent work in Climate Adaptation, involves a variety of partners in the effort to make vulnerable populations in Ontario cities more resilient. She holds Master’s degrees in both Freshwater Ecology (UofT-Zoology) and business (Schulich School at York U). She is bilingual in French and English.
