Tom started his career as a software renegade in high school. Then, still baby-faced, he went legit and founded Voice Courier Inc. (VCi) to service the emerging Interactive Voice Response market. Tom led VCi’s expansion to over 100 employees in three countries. (The VCi Group of Companies was successfully sold in 2005.)

Prior to VCi, Tom co-developed Planet Traveller, a low-carbon hotel project in downtown Toronto.

Today, Tom focuses his efforts on carbon mitigation and is active in cleantech venture capital, technology incubation and commercialization, and public advocacy.

Tom is an Action Canada Fellow and has a BASc (University of Waterloo), an MSc (University of London), and an MA and Phd (University of Toronto), and is the author of three acclaimed books.

A longtime Silicon Valley executive and investor, Marty Reed moved to Vancouver in 2015 to launch Evok Innovations.

Prior to Evok, Marty was a Partner with The Roda Group, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on clean technology, where he lead investments and board activities for mOasis, Svante (formerly Inventys), Gridtential and Axine.

Marty holds an MBA from John F. Kennedy University, a BSc in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon, and began his career as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

Graeme is a director of technology banking at Silicon Valley Bank in Toronto, where he brings experience and specialization in energy and resource innovation efforts for the bank across Canada.

Graeme thrives on connecting and assisting dynamic, high-growth companies — “the most interesting, game-changing organizations on the planet” — using nimble, inventive capital to create a launch pad for their success.

 Graeme earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with high honors from Ottawa’s Carleton University in 2008 and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.