INTERNATIONAL AND OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN ADDITION TO FORMAL BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Francisca Quinn
With almost 25 years in corporate strategy and sustainability, Francisca has a track record of assisting large corporations to conceptualize and implement industry leadership initiatives and excel in sustainability disclosure. The results include enhanced reputation, cost savings, high employee and customer satisfaction, industry awards and improvement in ESG analyst rankings. Her work with global institutional investors focus on embedding responsible investment principles in governance, due diligence, monitoring and reporting of alternative investment portfolios.
In 2013 and 2017, Francisca was named as a Clean50 honouree, joining a group of Canadian leaders who is recognized for outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada.
Francisca is the treasurer of No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Environment; an arts organization that uses art and design to bring awareness to environmental concerns.
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Tony Pringle
Tony has been helping businesses to advance sustainability for nearly a decade. Working with some of North America’s largest institutional asset owners, managers and public companies, Tony has a track record of designing and integrating sustainability into organizational strategy and processes.
Tony is Quinn & Partners’ practice leader for Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) services for real estate, infrastructure and mortgage investors. He is also a member of multiple GRESB Technical Working Groups and supports GRESB training.
In 2017, Tony was named as a Clean50 honouree, joining a small group of Canadians who each year is recognized for outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada.
Outside of work, Tony chairs the Seneca College Program Advisory Committee for Green Business Management and aspires to find a sport to replace rugby after a recent knee injury.
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Emily Partington
Emily has international advisory experience across many industry sectors, including financial institutions, professional services, transportation, real estate and infrastructure. Her expertise includes sustainability strategy design and implementation, materiality assessments, climate change risk and vulnerability assessments, stakeholder engagement, resource efficiency, carbon accounting, performance measurement and reporting.
Prior to joining Quinn & Partners, Emily led a successful sustainability advisory practice at WSP, a large multi-national engineering firm headquartered in Canada. She is a recurring guest lecturer at the University of Toronto’s M.Sc. in Sustainability Management and McMaster University’s Strategic Management programs.
In 2017, Emily was recognized as a Clean50 Emerging Leader for her contributions to clean capitalism in Canada.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys chasing after her daughter and spending time on Georgian Bay.
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Luke Westfall
Luke is a sustainability expert and professional engineer with over 10 years of international multi-sector experience implementing sustainability, greenhouse gas abatement and climate change resilience solutions at an asset, portfolio and industry-wide scale. As Senior Consultant, Luke supports clients to establish tailored sustainability goals, identify business-aligned and cost-effective improvements and implement measurement and monitoring systems to provide feedback on program success. His work spans commercial real estate, financial, municipal and transit infrastructure, mining, energy and industrial sector clients in over 20 countries.
Outside of work, Luke enjoys staying active through cycling, softball and keeping pace with his two-year-old daughter.
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Geoff Fudurich
Geoff brings a blended skill-set from a background in management consulting and an academic focus in environmental science and management. As a consultant, Geoff has worked across several industries, including retail, financial services, real estate and public transit.
In addition to research experience centred on environmental certification programs, Geoff’s current focus areas include stakeholder collaboration, sustainability training and engagement, as well as portfolio climate change assessments.
Whenever possible, Geoff enjoys being outside, whether it’s for golf, beach volleyball, hiking or cycling.
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Dan Pass
Utilizing a strong background in sustainability management and analysis, Dan has been successful in providing strong analyses and sustainable solutions to a wide-range of clients in the real estate, not-for-profit, and retail industries. Beginning his consulting work during his Master’s in Environment and Sustainability, his experience includes data management and analysis, program development and integration, greenhouse gas accounting, green building certifications and sustainability reporting.
Dan stays active through several sports teams, including hockey and ultimate Frisbee.
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Stephen Penstone
With education in environmental and chemical engineering and chemistry, Stephen brings a technical background to sustainability. As an analyst, Stephen is responsible for research and analysis that contribute to clients’ understanding of sustainability and strategy decision support. He has worked with a variety of industries including real estate, oil and gas, cement and manufacturing. Experience includes sustainability baseline measurement, benchmarking and gap analysis, strategy development, sustainability disclosure, GRI compliance and GRESB, CDP and PRI reporting.
Stephen enjoys coaching minor hockey in the winter and busking for charity in the summer.
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Phillip Gillam
Phillip brings strong technical, financial and analytical skills from his background in engineering and private equity. As an analyst, Phillip supports clients with research, benchmarking, data analytics and modeling with a focus on real asset investments. He is also experienced with the GRESB and CDP investor reporting frameworks. At Queen’s University, Phillip co-founded a conference that focused on sustainability in the mining industry, worked as a problem analysis mentor for an engineering design course and spent a summer in the Arctic working with the operations team at a mine.
Phillip enjoys spending time in the kitchen using local, organic ingredients to create healthy dishes.
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Korkin Kadehjian
Korkin started his consulting career with the United Nations Development Programme, gaining experience in industrial pollution abatement initiatives, greenhouse gas reporting and climate change mitigation actions.
As an analyst he utilizes his academic background in environmental science and sustainable development to support clients. Korkin contributes to research and analysis that provide decision support for clients’ sustainability strategies, action plans, measurement and reporting.
Korkin loves travelling and reading climate fiction.
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Maeve-Ellen Moyles
Maeve-Ellen is an analyst with particular experience in the energy markets and renewable energy from consulting work in the European Union. With a business background and strategy-focused MBA, Maeve-Ellen’s skills includes strategic planning, program development, stakeholder engagement and data analysis. At Quinn & Partners, she focuses on sustainability performance measurement, benchmarking and reporting.
Maeve-Ellen enjoys playing Gaelic Football, Ireland’s national sport, for her local club in Toronto and is an avid snowboarder.
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Careers
Do you believe in our value proposition and values, and see a fit between your skills and ours? Then we would like to get to know you. Please send your cover letter and CV to careers [at] quinnandpartners.com. Only high-potential candidates will be contacted.