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Corinne Boone

"I am thrilled that Corinne has been appointed to her first board. Her announcement will be coming later this week, and let me just say, she is a great board candidate and will be a valued board member for this company.

Corinne is a an Environmental Economist with a long history in the carbon markets and climate risk assessments. She worked for a well-known Wall Street firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, which was impacted greatly by the 9/11 attack in New York City in 2001. Corinne was based in Toronto at that time, and was called upon to lead a global brokerage office for them, focused on carbon market deals all over the world.

Subsequently, Corinne continued to build on her environmental and sustainable expertise in a variety of industries and markets. Her background and current consulting work is focused on ESG which is a critical part of corporate boards today and makes her an excellent member or candidate for any board."

Michele Ashby, CEO, ACE LLC


Corinne Boone is the CEO of Climate and Sustainable Innovation, a boutique consultancy which provides services to clients on environmental and social governance (ESG) considerations, responsible investment (RI), sustainable finance, carbon markets and corporate social responsibility (CSR). She is a retained expert on development of a global block-chain digital exchange. In addition, she is a strategic advisor to an indigenous-led company.

As Managing Director (MD) of Environmental Services at Hatch, responsible for environment, climate change, sustainability, community investment, indigenous partnerships, acquisitions and annual corporate sustainability reporting. Through organic staff mentorship and development, as well as acquisitions, transformed group to a core division and highest performing business practice across the company which led to millions of dollars in additional revenue (actual amounts confidential information). Led global teams that successfully integrated environment and sustainability considerations into large, complex engineering projects.

As Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Brokerage Services, co-founded and operated a greenhouse gas (GHG) subsidiary and developed it into a highly successful global brokerage focused on complex multi-million-dollar transactions. Led all aspects of project-based origination, verification and issuance of trading units and facilitated hundreds of carbon market deals, including numerous first-of-its-kind international GHG transactions.

"My extensive experience as an environmental economist focused on sustainability, climate risk and carbon markets as well as my executive level leadership experience and global experience and expertise quality me to serve on a public board, including risk and governance."

~ Corinne Boone