Jeff has eighteen years of CFO, CEO and advisory experience with a diverse range of companies in a wide variety of industry verticals. He has focussed on revenue & marketing strategy, business planning, financial reporting, regulatory compliance, M&A, corporate structuring/restructuring, joint ventures and finance. He has another thirteen years’ experience in customer-facing roles, managing complex sales of highly technical products. Jeff was CEO of Prairie Paper, a company founded by Woody Harrelson to promote and sell paper made of wheat straw. Prairie Paper sourced a unique grade of wheat straw copy paper in India and distributed through Staples across the United States. Prairie Paper built a reliable supply chain originating in Punjab, India and ending at a dozen points in the U.S., which required an asynchronous team in 6 global locations in Canada, the U.S. and India.As CFO and Corporate Secretary of ERA/Offsetters/NatureBank/Ostrom Climate, Jeff managed project due diligence, regulatory compliance, public company financial reporting, joint ventures and M&A, including the acquisition of Offsetters from Ledcor in 2012. Offsetters developed the world’s largest rainforest conservation project for climate change mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In 2008, Jeff was founder/CEO of Borealis Carbon Offsets, a forest restoration & climate change mitigation company in Northern British Columbia. The first half of Jeff’s career was spent in technical sales, marketing and application technology in the pulp & paper, chemical and biotechnology industries.Jeff holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Royal Roads University and is a Professional Engineer licensed in Ontario. He lives in Galt, Ontario.