Amy Robinson, Founder & Executive Director
Amy has been applying her diverse skill set to sustainability in business for over a decade. Her experience spans from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to big industry, focusing of the business case for sustainability – the management, business, social and environmental benefits. Amy focuses on the implementation aspects of sustainability from an organizational systems point of view. She focuses on managing sustainability as change management from the starting point of an organization’s existing culture. Amy works both directly with business, and with organizations that support business, providing research and developing tools and guides to support implementation for some aspect of sustainability.
Amy works as a researcher, trainer and implementation consultant in sustainable procurement, waste management and greenhouse gas management with some of Vancouver’s best-known business sustainability programs – Green Table Network, Sustainability Purchasing Network and Climate Smart Business. She is intimately connected with the local sustainable business community, seeking opportunities to build community and partnerships to move sustainability deep into small and mid-sized businesses. A veteran of the Board of the BC Chapter of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE BC), she understands what is needed to develop a thriving and sustainable business network in the region. She is well connected to the BALLE HQ staff and directors, who offer advice and support.
Saul Brown, Board Chair & Owner Saul Good Gift Co.
The seeds of change were planted early when Saul first started going on wilderness expeditions as a teenager. Besides the beauty of nature, Saul began to realize that health and well-being depends on understanding our interconnection with each other and the environment. Since then his passion for sustainability has flourished, working as canoe/kayak guide, industrial ecologist, and social entrepreneur. Saul Good Gift Co. Inc. a green corporate gifts and promotions business, started as course work while working on his MBA in sustainable business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, financing the start up from his student line of credit. Saul Good is currently in its 3rd year, located in Vancouver, BC and a founding member of the Strathcona Green Zone, a business driven initiative to address social and environmental issues for community competitive advantage in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Saul sits on the Sustainability Committee of the Strathcona Business Improvement Area.
Tricia Rogers, Treasurer & Accountant
Tricia Rogers has over 15 years experience in accounting. She has worked as a Finance Manager for a BC based sustainability Charity and is experienced with multiple stakeholder reporting. In addition, Tricia was a bookkeeper for an Ontario based athletic not-for-profit organization. Prior to working in non-profit, she was a tax consultant in public practice and with Hudson’s Bay Company. By consulting for clients in a variety of industries, Tricia learned accounting and operational best practice required for organizations to succeed and prosper. In addition to her business experience, Tricia is interested in small and medium sized business and is a graduate from Royal Roads University bachelor program in Entrepreneurial management.
Aron Bjornson, Director & Sustainable Marketing Consultant
Aron is highly skilled at helping businesses create and tell their sustainable stories. Building on his Bachelor of Commerce, his work includes providing strategic marketing direction to socially responsible companies and innovative organizations that promote sustainability. His blend of strategy, hands on operational knowledge, and community engagement ideally positions him for helping companies pursue Sustainability to become more profitable.
Aron has played integral roles in creating a market-leading triple bottom line culture. He is highly successful at building core customer bases through deep community engagement, working on the shop floor, leading supply chain management, retail design, brand design, website building, and crisis management. Aron’s experience includes Caper’s marketing director in charge of local/sustainable purchasing initiatives, marketing for SPUD and Terra Breads, and working for VANOC’s cultural Olympiad. He currently sits on the Board of the Green Table Network and previously was a Board member with Farm Folk City Folk and the Vancouver Food Policy Council .
Jason Boyce, Social Sustainability Coordinator, Nature’s Path Foods
Jason Boyce is a program development specialist focusing on sustainability and social marketing, with a passion for food systems and sustainability. He is currently employed by Nature’s Path, and is program coordinator of Local Food First. In the past his love for local and sustainable food had him working for the Green Table Network and developing the Ocean Wise program for the Vancouver Aquarium.
Claudia Bierth, Director & Sustainability Consultant (bio coming)
Bonnie Wong, Director & Vancity Investment Manage, Community Capital (bio coming)
Sandra Bicego, Director & Owner Pacifica Blue Consulting (bio coming)
