Sustainable Improvement Expertise Canada founder receives Company Knights’ Award of Distinction for catalyzing inexperienced enterprise capital in Canada
TORONTO, June 30, 2022 /CNW/ – Founding President and former CEO of Sustainable Improvement Expertise Canada (SDTC), Vicky Sharpe, introduced with 2022 Award of Distinction from Company Knights.
In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Company Knights introduced the outcomes of this 12 months’s Greatest 50 Company Residents in Canada throughout a night gala held on the Gardiner Museum in Toronto.
In recognition of Canadian sustainability leaders, Company Knights introduced each the outcomes of its Greatest 50 rating, as effectively its annual Award of Distinction. The award is introduced to leaders who’ve made a considerable contribution to advancing the circumstances required for a sustainable financial system. This 12 months’s awardee, Vicky Sharpe, is the Founding President and former CEO of Sustainable Improvement Expertise Canada (SDTC).
Sharpe has demonstrated lifelong dedication to being on the nexus of ecology, capital and innovation. On the coronary heart of her efforts is the end result for which she is acknowledged as this 12 months’s recipient: catalyzing inexperienced enterprise capital in Canada. Whereas CEO of SDTC, Sharpe elevated the inspiration’s public funding pool from $100 million in 2001 to over $1.4 billion in 2014 with a roster of 280 firms, along with mobilizing non-public sector capital to allow greater than $4 billion of investments for mission and commercialization actions. These investments supported cleantech improvements in industries starting from energy, oil and gasoline, and transportation to agriculture, forestry and mining, whereas making Canada extra productive and boosting exports.
With almost 20 years of board service, Sharpe has demonstrated a deep dedication to scrub capitalism and Canada’s innovation ecosystem. She is a founding director of: The Indigenous Infrastructure Fund Corp., The Capital Markets Regulatory Authority the precursor to a nationwide securities regulator, Alberta Enterprise Company – a fund of funds mandated to diversify the oil and gasoline financial system of the province and Carbon Administration Canada Analysis Institutes a nationwide community targeted on a low carbon future for Canada’s fossil gas sector. Vicky additionally sits on the Board of EfficiencyOne, an vitality effectivity utility and the Verschuren Centre board.
Earlier Award of Distinction recipients embrace Adèle Hurley (for beating again acid rain in North America), The Hon. Dalton McGuinty (for phasing out coal energy), The Hon. Gordon Campbell (for implementing a carbon tax mannequin for the world), Munir Sheikh (for standing up for evidence-based coverage), The Hon. Danny Williams (for changing fossil gas wealth to sustainable vitality prosperity), The Rt. Hon. Paul Martin (for championing the addition of pure capital indicators within the system of nationwide accounts), and the late Maurice Sturdy (as Chair of the Rio Earth Summit).
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