ADVISORY BOARD

John D. Wiebe
John is President & CEO of the GLOBE Foundation, the creator of EPIC. Up until May of 2005, he was the President & CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; as well, John was Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Education Centre Network and Global Schools Inc. until April 2007. John serves as a Director on a number of national and international boards and is a past Chair of the Vancouver Economic Commission. From 2000–2006, he served as a member of the National Roundtable on Environment and Economy. In 2003, John was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada.

James Hoggan
Jim Hoggan is President of James Hoggan & Associates, an award-winning public relations firm whose clients include a range of BC's most prominent corporations and government agencies. Also, he is Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, a trustee of the Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education and co-founder of the climate change website, DeSmogBlog.com. Jim is on the Board of Future Generations Canada, the West Coast Environmental Law Association and The Climate Project-Canada; and, he is an advisor to the Masters of Climate Action & Sustainability Leadership Program at Vancouver's Great Northern Way Campus as well as to EPIC, the Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo.

Pamela Chaloult
Pamela Chaloult is Chief Operating Officer for Renewal Partners and Endswell Foundation whose complementary missions utilize early stage investing and strategic charitable grant making to promote a sustainable economy for British Columbia. Also, Pamela is a senior advisor to both the Hollyhock Centre and the Tides Canada Foundation.

Prior to embarking upon a grand adventure to Canada in 2006, Pamela served as the Co-Executive Director of Social Venture Network (SVN) in San Francisco for five years.

Denise Tascheureau
Denise is co-founder of Fairware Promotional Products Ltd, a Vancouver based company specializing in ethically sourced, sustainable, custom branded promotional products. Previous to launching Fairware, Denise was the Director of Sustainability and Community for Mountain Equipment Co-op.

Denise was an inaugural Fellow of Action Canada and sat on the City of Vancouver's Ethical Sourcing Policy Task Force.

Gil Yaron
Gil Yaron is the founder and President of Frogfile Office Essentials (www.frogfile.com), a full service office supply company specializing in eco-friendly office products.

As a former lawyer and an avid environmentalist, Gil spent the past decade working with investors advocating for greater corporate responsibility. Through his work, he recognized a growing desire by Canadian businesses to adopt more sustainable practices and started Canada's first one-stop green office supply company to help businesses improve their operations - both environmentally and financially.