Fin Donnelly was elected the MLA for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain in the 2020 provincial general election and is Parliamentary Secretary for Watershed Restoration.

Prior to running for provincial office, Fin served as a Coquitlam City Councillor from 2002-2009, and as the Member of Parliament for New Westminster-Coquitlam and Port Moody-Coquitlam from 2009-2019.

During his time in Ottawa, Fin introduced bills to protect West Coast waters. He founded the All-Party Oceans Caucus, a cross-partisan group of MPs and Senators committed to promoting ocean health.

Prior to being elected to public office, Fin was a well-known community and environmental advocate. He completed fourteen environmental marathon swims, including twice swimming the 1,375 km length of the Fraser River. In 1996, he founded the Rivershed Society of BC.

Fin was honoured by the Squamish Nation for his stewardship work, and given the name Iyim Yewyews, which means Orca, or strong swimmer, in the animal world.

Fin lives in Coquitlam with his wife Lynda.

Kate brings extensive experience analysing and delivering climate policy and responsible innovation. She has worked with governments across multiple jurisdictions and in both public and private sectors.

Her previous roles include climate policy and economic analysis for the UK/EU governments, managing low-carbon technology trials for Transport for London, working on low-carbon vehicle strategies for Nissan and acting as Research Lead for the Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. As an advisor and consultant in British Columbia, she focused on facilitating and reviewing research across disciplines and boundaries. Kate has an interdisciplinary background, with a Masters of Science from Cambridge University and training from Simon Fraser University’s Master of Public Policy program.

Katrina is passionate about the positive impact of businesses to be a catalyst for change in their operations, through their supply chain and with the customers and communities they touch. As the Head of Regeneration & Sustainability at Lush Cosmetics, Katrina has spent the last decade leading strategy, supporting teams and driving initiatives across five manufacturing facilities, two distribution centres and 260+ retail shops across North America. She works closely with cross functional departments across the business to integrate and elevate sustainability through supply chain, procurement and distribution, operational processes, and the built environment. Key areas include energy/carbon/climate, packaging/circularity/zero waste, water, nature and regenerative systems. Prior to joining Lush, Katrina helped build the foundation of a sustainability program for a major food service provider impacting 500+ higher education institutions. Internationally, she has worked on ecotourism and community-based tourism projects in Mongolia, Laos and Malaysia. Katrina holds an MBA from Arizona State University and a BS from Cornell University.

Chad Park is the Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship for The Co-operators. In this role he leads the co-operative’s efforts to embed and integrate sustainability principles throughout the organization, including in its investment strategy and underwriting practices. He also oversees The Co-operators nation-wide community investment and partnership programs, including the Cooperators Community Funds.

Prior to joining The Co-operators in June 2020, Chad played a leadership role with several sustainability-focused organizations and initiatives. He served for five years as the Founding Director and Lead Animator of the Energy Futures Lab, a diverse coalition of innovators and partner organizations working together to advance solutions for a transformative energy vision for Canada. He has also served as Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada. Chad earned his masters degree as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden and completed the Oxford Social Finance Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business.

The Honourable Sean Fraser was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Central Nova in 2015. He now serves as the Minister of Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities. He has previously served as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and to the Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. In 2021, he also served concurrently as Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister.

Prior to entering politics, Sean built a successful legal practice as a commercial litigator with one of Canada’s top-ranked law firms, and studied international law under a Judge of the International Court of Justice and a Former Secretary-General of NATO as part of his Master’s Program in The Hague in the Netherlands. He also spent time working as a human rights lawyer for marginalized groups and individuals in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Minister Fraser grew up in Pictou County Nova Scotia, where he and his wife, Sarah, are raising their young family.

Carla Heim is Director, Sustainability BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada), the only bank in Canada dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs. She has worked in Sustainability for more than a decade focused on the SMEs journey through economic, social, and environmental impact. She is a leading figure in the national movement of entrepreneurs in the B Corp community who create for-profit companies that help build robust communities that are inclusively prosperous and climate resilient.  She now leads a team who is developing Sustainability tools and resources for SMEs that emphasize their opportunities for the future. Carla has thirty-plus years’ experience in owning, managing, advising, and financing businesses. She brings to entrepreneurs a singular mix of hands-on experience, deep expertise, and successful sustainability integration.

Jackee Kasandy is an expert in Retail, Marketing and Strategy practices with 15 years corporate experience and 8 years as an entrepreneur. Since founding her own successful lifestyle brand Kasandy Inc, Jackee worked on advertising, marketing, growth and transformational strategy across a variety of industry segments including retail, food, consumer products, corporate and hospitality.  

She has extensive experience in large-scale multi-year marketing, advertising and digital strategy, with a focus on product launches, mass market retail strategy, customer journey redesign, store operations, digital transformation, sustainability and innovation. 

Jackee has appeared in numerous news articles nationally and internationally, stories and interviews clips. She appeared in Montecristo Magazine and was recognized by the Vancouver Economic Commission | 23 Black Leaders in Vancouver telling her own entrepreneurship story, educating and advocating for women, business owners and the Black community. 

She currently serves as the global president board chair of the BEBC Society having founded it in 2020, as well as the CEO of Kasandy Inc which she founded in 2014 and established in 2016 with a brick & mortar store located at the historic Granville Island in Vancouver BC. She is also a board of director for Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver, BC & a board commissioner for BC Housing. 

Prior to founding Kasandy Inc and later BEBC, she was a marketer at WorksafeBC, BCFerries, BCLC and before that at advertising agencies in Toronto.

A leader of teams, focused on the personal and professional development of people with experience in a variety of different senior administrative roles. Mark is a chronic optimist, who leads with vision and has proven to be transformational in his approaches. He enjoys the strategic thinking associated with long term planning for a sustainable world where future generations can thrive. 

Currently, Mark serves as the Executive Director of Planetary Health, where he is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction towards deep decarbonization, energy management and environmental sustainability activities throughout PHSA, including ensuring the meeting of regulatory requirements and fostering innovation and change in all operations areas towards the goal of Net-Zero. 

He is also the Founder and CEO of Circino Consulting, an organization dedicated to the development of people and transforming Facilities Management (FM) organizations to be strategic in their long-term planning for a sustainable future. 

Lawrence Hanson was appointed Associate Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada in November 2022. Prior to that, Lawrence was the Associate Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Previously, he served in several Assistant Deputy Minister roles, including Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy at Transport Canada, Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications Sector and then of Science and Innovation (both at Innovation, Science and Economic Development).

He held several positions at Environment Canada between 2004 and 2013.

Lawrence received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. He is married and has two children.