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Susan McGeachie has 25 years of experience identifying, evaluating, and managing ESG-related risks and strategic positioning opportunities. Following her years in ESG research and analytics, she held leadership positions in banking, management consulting, and engineering firms as the Head of the BMO Climate Institute, Central Market Leader for EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice, and Global Director of the Climate Change and Sustainability practice at Hatch. Susan is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches a graduate course in climate finance and is a member of the ESG Designation executive education faculty at the Rotman School of Management.

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CSO Partner – Our Team

Our fractional CSO support goes beyond just one individual—it’s a flexible, expert-backed service designed to evolve alongside your business. Behind every CSO engagement is a full team of specialists, spanning policy, finance, operations, and communications, ensuring your sustainability strategy remains both agile and impactful.

As your internal needs shift and the external landscape evolves, our team adapts in real time, bringing in the right expertise at the right moment—whether it’s navigating new regulations, integrating ESG into financial decision-making, or positioning your company as an industry leader in sustainability. With this scalable and dynamic approach, you get strategic leadership backed by deep, cross-disciplinary expertise, ensuring long-term success in a rapidly changing world.

Client Engagement Managers

Dr. Christina Allen

Experience & Skills: Employee wellness programs, liveable buildings, nature-based product development, multi-media creative story-telling

Dr. Cristina Allen is a Naturopathic Doctor with over a decade of experience, owner of lifestyle medicine brand FIELD GUIDE, and co-founding partner of creative consultancy Home Planet. She is a graduate of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, and has completed additional training in paediatrics and pharmaceutical prescribing certifications.

Alexander Blair

Experience & Skills: ESG Investment Policy, US and European Policy and Regulatory Affairs

Alex advocates on behalf of clients before lawmakers and regulators on issues including financial services, agriculture, trade and emerging climate technologies. He was closely engaged in developing and advocating for key industrial decarbonization provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. He also maintains a strong understanding of the European policy landscape with respect to climate, agriculture, and trade issues. He has represented clients at agriculture, ESG, and climate forums across Europe and the United States.

Danielle Comeau

Experience & Skills: Environment, Social & Governance Risk , ESGI Frameworks & Program Design , Public and Stakeholder Consultation, Indigenous collaboration and partnership agreements, materiality assessment, Regulatory Review and Impact Assessment

Danielle Comeau, MBA, MHR is a globally experienced sustainability leader. Working across mining, energy, and natural resources sectors she supports small to mid-tier clients with their growth and sustainability strategies. Danielle takes a special interest in environment, social, governance and indigenous equity and partnerships (ESGI), and the importance of building responsible supply chains to de-risk capital projects.

David Delves

Experience & Skills: Project management, automation, technology integration, distributed energy systems, capital raising

David is an engineer and senior business leader with over 30 years of experience in project management, product development, technology commercialization and corporate venturing. Most recently, David was a Project Director at Hatch, leading client engagements in the areas of mineral processing, automation, machinery design, EV technology development, and renewable power integration and energy storage.

Peter Howard

Experience & Skills: Carbon and energy measurement and management, policy engagement and development, software development, capital raising

Peter is a senior project manager and cleantech executive, having spent a career helping organizations understand how climate change translates into financial statement risks and opportunities.

Dr. Dinah Koehler

Experience & Skills: ESG disclosure and data QA, GHG reporting and emissions avoided analysis, Environmental risk assessment and materiality determination, Life Cycle Assessment, Impact Measurement, ESG integration into investment decisions

Dinah Koehler has over 25 years of experience leading corporate environmental programs, developing ESG and impact measurement systems in the public and private sectors and advising international development banks and national governments on sustainability strategy.

Heather Langsner

Experience & Skills: Lifecycle analysis, carbon removal strategies and credits, financial modelling, technical due diligence, funding proposals

Heather Langsner is a carbon analytics professional with experience in carbon inventory analysis, carbon reporting, carbon displacement analysis, carbon finance, renewable energy financial modelling, corporate decarbonization for compliance and life cycle analysis.

Katherine Partridge

Experience & Skills: Stakeholder engagement, material topic prioritization, ESG report development

Katharine is an ESG engagement and communications specialist with 20+ years in the field creating stakeholder engagement initiatives and strategic communications programs for companies, governments and non-governmental organizations from the community to international level.

Wendy Potomski

Experience & Skills: Business and Operational Risk assessment, Strategic Business planning, Carbon management strategy development

Wendy brings over 25 years of senior consulting experience assisting clients identify and address current and future business and operational risks associated with increasingly complex sustainability issues, an evolving energy industry, emerging cleantech market, and a carbon constrained economy. She has successfully led cross-functional and multi-disciplinary project teams, managing occasionally competing objectives of the various stakeholders involved in a project and through targeted stakeholder engagement to build consensus.

Lida Preyma

Experience & Skills: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, ethics, global regulatory policy, strategy & risk management

Lida brings over 25 years of experience in Canadian capital markets. Her experience includes transforming and aligning global policy for a major Canadian bank’s capital markets AML programme.

Hao Tian

Experience & Skills: Debt Structuring, Climate Fund Investing

Hao Tian has nearly a decade of experience in finance and sustainability across global banks and the World Bank Group. She has held key roles in global capital markets, sustainability, strategic consulting, technology and risk management with a proven track record in leading million-dollar level of debt structuring and climate tech PE/VC fund investments.

Chris Walker

Experience & Skills: climate and sustainability strategy, ESG/Impact Investing, decarbonization, climate risk and resilience, carbon markets.

Chris has 25 years of experience galvanizing action to identify, finance, and drive innovative sustainability solutions in the US capital markets. His forte is in financial sector sustainability innovation and stock exchange listing requirements.

Jim Whitestone

Experience & Skills: Leadership, strategy, policy, program and project development and delivery

Jim is the former Assistant Deputy Minister of the Climate Change and Environmental Policy Division with the Ontario Government. In that role, he led the development and implementation of a range of climate change related policies and programs including Ontario’s cap and trade program with California and Quebec and the Ontario Green Bank to finance the deployment of low carbon technologies.