Our story

Ed’s primary message is that environmental and financial sustainability can – and must – coexist. Backed by this belief, Ed has earned a multitude of business and environmental accolades from around the world. He understands that people and organizations must be incentivized to participate in the low carbon economy, or they’ll continue to do as they’ve always done.

From his first job at a gas station, Ed went on to found Rent-a-Wreck and steer it towards impressive growth and expansion throughout the 1980s. And that was just the beginning, since then he’s become a bonafide serial entrepreneur with more than 30-years experience growing companies in Canada, the US, and the UK. He’s lectured on entrepreneurship at various universities, including Pepperdine and Stanford U, and his success in business has been the subject of case studies for multiple MBA and commerce programs across North America.

Ed has an outstanding track record of strategic corporate leadership, and efficient growth and environmental consciousness across multiple industries. With him at the helm, Radicle is fiercely focused on their goal of becoming the foremost authority in Measure-Report-Verify (MRV) and climate change mitigation strategies in the world.

• Contributing Author of Amazon Bestseller: The Only Business Book You’ll Ever Need, 2012
• Feature speaker at TedX, 2013
• EY Entrepreneur of the Year, 2017
• BIC Leader Award Recipient, 2018

Chelsea serves as Managing Director of Global Markets and Strategy, possessing over 10 years of experience in commodity markets, investments, and trading. Chelsea’s areas of focus include carbon market design, environmental commodity generation, transaction structures, and hedging strategy.

Prior to joining Radicle, she led a team focused on environmental commodity advisory services and managed the environmental commodity portfolio for a large regulated entity with operations throughout North America. When she’s not expounding on carbon markets for Radicle’s roster of clients, Chelsea loves being surrounded by nature on the acreage where she abides.

• Chartered Financial Analyst

Shahira is deeply passionate about developing solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. That passion has been the guiding force behind her extensive education and led to some very impressive credentialing and equally impressive experiences. Shahira’s Masters dissertation explored how climate change will impact the growth of agroforestry tree species planted between crops or pastures.

In a move to California from Canada to work for Terra Global Capital, she led the first US-based protocol test to prove that carbon offset credits can be developed from rice production. The net of her time in both Canada and the US is a strong background in environmental research and policy, and detailed expertise in data management and analysis, climate change strategy, carbon mitigation, and project management and development. In layman’s terms, Shahira has the skills to help businesses create meaningful environmental impact.

When she’s not poring over spreadsheets, she can be found planning her next bucket list item which happens to be summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro, and by no coincidence is also where her parents grew up.

• Masters of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo

Alastair’s personal mission is to help governments implement environmental market frameworks that stimulate green innovation and employment opportunities. Once successful in this, we can all expect to see (and benefit from) lasting reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Lofty goals, but then again, he’s already racked up some pretty impressive achievements.

Over his career, Alastair has become an uncontested leader in the worldwide environmental markets space. He designed and developed one of the world’s first software platforms for aggregating and quantifying large-scale emission reductions in Alberta in 2008. From there he founded multiple businesses. Their success proves that emission reduction markets can simultaneously build wealth, generate jobs, create export opportunities, and protect the environment for future generations.

Environmental foresight is the foundation on which Alastair builds companies. This former teen paper route tycoon leveraged his geographic information systems and software design experience to generate $40 million dollars in documented carbon credits for Alberta farmers in a single decade. At the same time saving emitters $30 million and creating an excess of another $30 million in company equity for what would go on to become Radicle.

• World Bank Group Advisor on the Paris Agreement
• United Nations Climate Change Conference speaker, Spain, 2019
• National Carbon Farming Conference & Expo, Australia, 2019
• Energy Disruptors, Food Security Moderator, Canada, 2019
• SPARK: From Global to Local – Lessons Learned from Carbon Positive Policies and Programs, Canada, 2019

Andy’s a seasoned business owner who was eager to allow his personal fondness for the great outdoors to influence his professional pursuits. He’s lived and worked all over the world, and has fostered a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of our shared home and all its inhabitants.

A veritable jack of most trades, Andy has worked in sustainable development, clean technology, and renewable energy in remote communities throughout the Americas, and provided deployment leadership and commercialization services for real estate and infrastructure throughout Southeast Asia. He’s also directed teams from the UK and Canada through complex international manufacturing and development projects, and led a sustainable real estate development in the Caribbean. He helped scale the renewable energy business within new markets as Vice President of Waste to Energy Canada, and worked to grow sustainable technology as Vice President of a venture capital firm.

Clearly not big on downtime, Andy has spent his career amassing the skills and knowledge necessary to best leverage the power of carbon credit markets to promote and deploy clean technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under his leadership, Radicle’s marketing team is being steered toward success.

• Spirit North Board Member, 2017 – present
• Assured Renewables Solutions Board of Advisors Member, 2017 – present

If you look at the intersection of agriculture and the environment, you’ll find Richard. With more than a decade working on the development and management of environmental commodity projects in the agricultural and land management sectors, he leads the industry in terms of expertise. With his deep knowledge of carbon credit markets, Richard helps guide the development and management of environmental commodity-producing projects from agriculture, renewable energy, and methane abatement in oil and gas. His expertise also extends into the planning, monitoring, and verification phases of projects that lead to the issuance of credits, as well as for financial and resource management of projects.

After hours, he’s likely to be frequenting a pool hall, working on his game for league play.

• BIC Leader Award Recipient, 2018

Dwayne is as much a natural leader as he is a proponent for the natural environment. He credits this to his Prairie upbringing. A distinctive sense of place coupled with running a family business and playing (and coaching) team sports taught Dwayne the importance of building lasting relationships. Much like the relationships needed to tackle climate change. Through the implementation of new technologies, Dwayne helps Radicle’s clients do just that. Meeting environmental regulations, developing corporate sustainability goals, and reporting/quantifying improvements — are just some of the ways Dwayne is helping lead a cleantech energy revolution.

Dwayne’s career has spanned over three decades, beginning as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young, where he earned his designation. From there, he would use his quantitative prowess to pivot into the oil and gas sector, filling a number of senior leadership roles. One notable role came in 2002, when he was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Western Lakota Energy Services. During his time there — staying true to his commitment to relationship building — Dwayne would develop partnerships with several First Nation and Metis communities. In 2006, Dwayne’s role would evolve; due to a merger between Savanna Energy Services and Western Lakota. Now overseeing business development and operations at Savanna’s start-up enterprise in Australia, Dwayne’s leadership would go on to contribute close to 75% of Savanna’s corporate EBITDA in 2016.

When Dwayne isn’t quantifying environmental improvements for the clean tech sector, you’ll find him at his family-owned bowling centre in Cochrane, holding out for the “perfect game”. Keep on rolling, Dwayne.

• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA)
• T.E.C. Canada: Peer Advisory Group Chair and Executive Coach
• Executive & Director of the Cochrane and District Chamber of Commerce

Cooper is a recognized sustainability expert with a strong entrepreneurial streak. His strength lies in his ability to see strategies others don’t, beginning with his first startup when he was 16. After earning degrees from Western University and Ivey Business School, he determined his life’s work revolved around finding ways to make sustainability profitable in the energy industries. With a passion for innovative entrepreneurship and a unique ability to interpret cross-disciplinary principles into business implications, Cooper helps build companies that go beyond traditional definitions of sustainability and actually embed sustainable development directly into their business models.

His professional talents aside, Cooper is also an accomplished musician. Feel free to inquire about upcoming performances around the city.

• HBA
• P.Eng

Saj believes a more sustainable future through practical and profitable steps is both possible and necessary. Throughout his career, he’s racked up extensive management experience and proven expertise in strategic planning, capital budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions.

In a sense, Saj has always worked in sustainability thanks to a summer spent working at the bottle depot when he was 14. Since then, and before finding himself at Radicle, Saj worked in senior leadership positions at several international oilfield technology services companies. During this portion of his career, he established manufacturing and operational capabilities, achieved world-class quality certifications, and contributed to unprecedented growth in both size and revenue. In every company Saj has worked at, he ensures there’s a balance between people, community, sustainability, and profits.

As President of Radicle, Saj is responsible for global operations and continues to prioritize aligning business strategy with sustainability and good corporate citizenship.

• Calgary Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award Recipient
• Alberta Export Award Finalist, 2017

Brent is the rare breed of professional who balances deep technical knowledge with an entrepreneurial flair. An autodidact from youth, he started multiple businesses, and self-taught the necessary technical skills along the way. In elementary school, Brent learned the challenge of operating costs — he had to shutter his lawn care business after his parents refused to allow the continued use of their lawnmower. In high school, he founded a software company that provided development, infrastructure support, and system administration to several larger commercial projects.

From there, he went on to work for a small IT operation where he gained exposure to the oil and gas and service industry, as well as several startups that were launched from within the organization, One of which was an application created for the first-to-market operations under the new carbon credit legislation. It generated the first serialized and audited CSA carbon offset emission credits for resale and led him to Radicle, where he oversees the deployment and evolution of our proprietary software.

When he’s not sitting behind a computer screen with a furrowed brow, Brent is outside climbing, skiing, biking, or sailing somewhere exciting and exotic.