Specializing in integration of ESG and RI in private equity, venture capital and alternative / private markets investments.
Service Provider Type: Consultants
Sean Sirois
Demeter Advisors provides consulting services to capital markets participants such as institutional asset managers and asset owners, corporations and other fiduciaries. Consulting services are offered on questions of Governance, Sustainable Investment, Impact Investment and Capital Origination supporting Innovation and Disruptor activities in the sustainable investment field. Demeter also helps to improve communication strategies and presentation materials in order to better connect with clients and stakeholders.
Dr. Philip Ng
Philip has over 30 years of experience in direct investments and private equity fund investments in China and North Asia. He is passionate about leveraging data and new technologies to build sustainable businesses. In addition, he strives to make a positive impact on society. He volunteers for zero carbon and circular economy projects and promotes STEM/STEAM education in his free time.
Karim Harji
Karim Harji brings over a decade of international experience in impact measurement and impact investing. He is the Managing Director at Evalysis, an impact measurement advisory firm, and Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He was previously on the Board of the Responsible Investment Association.
Karim works with impact investors to describe, evaluate, and improve their social impact. He was the Co-Chair of the Impact Measurement Task Force convened by the Government of Ontario, a Member of the Impact Measurement Working Group of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force, and an Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation on social impact measurement.
Karim was previously a co-founder and Director at Purpose Capital (now Rally Assets), where he established and led its Impact Investment Advisory practice. He has authored widely-cited reports on impact investing, including “State of the Nation: Impact Investing in Canada” and “Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry”.
Hugessen
Hugessen Consulting helps Boards make the right decisions on executive compensation and its governance, within an environment of heightened complexity and scrutiny. We enable boards to make independent decisions to: Align pay with corporate strategy and business plans; review compensation policies, pay levels, and plan design; evaluate CEO pay and performance and goal-setting; and conduct independent assessments of corporate performance.
Coro Strandberg
Coro Strandberg is a thought leader and advisor on embedding sustainability into the marketplace. She specializes in corporate sustainability, sustainability governance, social finance, banking and insurance and socially responsible investment. She has 25-years experience in this work from her days as director and Chair of Vancity Credit Union, which created the first SRI fund in Canada shortly before Coro joined the Board. She was a founding trustee of Ethical Funds Inc., Canada’s most comprehensive family of socially responsible mutual funds.
Clients hire Coro for advice on sustainable and impact investment strategies and social finance and social insurance business models. Community Foundations of Canada, for example, hired Coro to help them launch their responsible investment education and engagement program for community foundations. She authored much of the original Canadian research on impact investing, socially responsible investment, and sustainability governance which she posts on her website along with her other social finance publications.
Coro was a member of Canada’s National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. Currently she is an advisory panel member to the Office of the Auditor General’s Sustainable Development Commissioner and on the board of BC Lotteries Corporation.
Coro was recognized as the top CSR consultant by Canada’s Clean50 in 2015 for her impact.
Kim Hallwood
Hallwood Sustainability is a boutique independent consultancy that partners with Canadian and global organizations across sectors and stages of maturity to bring clarity, confidence, and momentum to their sustainability journeys. Whether you’re advancing disclosure, activating a new strategy, or building internal capacity, we’ll meet you where you are— and help you lead with purpose, and deliver with impact.