Hi!

I'm a proven impact entrepreneur driven by innovation, integrity and community to do things like these: 

  • I created massive global change as one of the founders of the ESG movement and the Principles for Responsible Investment. 

  • I founded a company and pulled together one of the largest environmental coalitions ever assembled to launch the world's first mission-aligned top-level domain: .eco.  

  • My writing saved the .org domain from a private equity take-over, protecting critical infrastructure for millions of the world's nonprofits.

My work in finance, cleantech, digital technology, and consumer advocacy has been covered in major news media around the world including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC, Boing Boing, the CBC and Vice.

I love drawing on the lessons from these experiences to help others achieve impact and meaning through their work.

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Bio

At the UNEP Finance Initiative I project-managed the first global collaboration of financial institutions to undertake research on the materiality of ESG issues to equity pricing (report here). This work, along with the Freshfields report on the fiduciary duty of ESG issues, laid the foundations for the Principles for Responsible Investment. Along with James Gifford, I ran the PRI process until the first investor meeting. I've written about it here. Others have written about it here. 

I left UNEP FI to join ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for critical aspects of technical Internet governance. While at ICANN I developed and launched the ICANN fellowships program and was a founding member of the ICANN Global Partnerships team. I left ICANN to co-found the .eco Internet domain with Trevor Bowden and Anastasia O'Rourke. I was Director and CEO of Big Room Inc, the company behind the .eco domain registry, for ten years.

After exiting from .eco I worked with Foresight - Canada's leading cleantech accelerator - on their ecosystem strategy, including open innovation challenges and cluster development. 

I left Foresight to join the Open Lunar Foundation, where I worked to help it transition from a policy advocacy organization to an open technology policy innovation lab focussed on delivering a peaceful and sustainable lunar future. 

Outside of work, I advocate for the preservation of open and accessible technologies. Most significantly this included the Save Dot Org campaign, which I helped catalyze with these posts, leading to global media coverage and the eventual regulatory rejection of the proposed sale of dot-org to private equity.