Who We Are

Kent Brown is a Canadian entrepreneur focused on the cleantech sector for more than 20 years. As founding CEO of BluEarth Renewables, he built a $1.2B renewable energy platform that sold in 2015 and he stayed on as Director & Advisor until 2020. Prior to founding BluEarth, Kent was CEO of Canadian Hydro Developers, the largest Canadian renewable energy company at the time, until its $1.6B sale in 2009. Currently, Kent is Co-Founder & Partner of Idea Well Capital Partners, a VC/PE climate tech and energy transition fund, Board Chair of VEERUM, a SaaS provider in the industrial cleantech sector, and Director at CMLC, the city-owned urban renewal developer.

Kent was also appointed by the Government of Alberta’s Climate Change Advisory Panel to co-lead and co-facilitate Electricity Stakeholder Technical Engagement sessions, which lead to the Climate Leadership Plan. He co-created The Catherine Bell & Kent Brown Awakened Company Award at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Kent holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Western University and holds both CPA and CA accreditation.

CEO and founder of Arletta Environmental Consulting with over 17 years of experience in the environmental management and assessment industry. Jennifer founded, built and sold her first version of Arletta to Gemini Corp in 2015, where she continued as Director of Environmental Solutions. Jennifer has also had technical roles for both Ark Envirotech and Whitecap Resources. Jennifer is highly versed in Canadian environmental regulations as well as the required framework for ESG.

Professional Agrologist and Biologist with a M.Sc., in Environmental Engineering and a B.Sc., in Environmental Science.

Co-founder of Eight Capital with over 20 years of experience in building and managing investment banking franchises and advising a global client base focusing on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, corporate strategy and business innovation. Tony was previously Managing Director at Dundee Securities and Partner, Managing Director at Genuity Capital Markets prior to being acquired by Canaccord Capital.

25 years experience in the energy industry with 17 as an executive and/or business owner and the remaining as a research chemist, business development and Country Manager having worked for companies such as Schlumberger, Marquis Alliance Energy Group and Secure Energy.

Founded, built and sold Marquis Alliance (drilling, production and environmental services) to Secure in 2011, where George sat on the executive team and led the upstream chemical and waste recycling business until 2020. George also sat on the board of Secure from 2011-2014.

B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Calgary, Canada with post graduate executive programs in leadership and business management at Queens University, Harvard and the University of Calgary.