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 skillset from an academic focus in environmental science and management and business experience from management consulting. As a Quinn & Partners consultant, Geoff leads ESG programs for multiple clients, including measurement, reporting, training and stakeholder engagement activities. He supports infrastructure and real estate clients to manage sustainability disclosures including the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) and the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB).
Recently, Geoff led a global, climate change risk and resilience assessment for a large Canadian pension plan which has been used as a best practice case study for Canadian commercial real estate industry guidance.
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Dan Pass
Dan is a sustainability professional with a 6-year track record of advising leading Canadian organizations. He works to embed environmental, social and governance aspects into our clients’ business practices. Utilizing a strong background in sustainability management and analysis, Dan is experienced in driving operational efficiencies and continued performance improvements.
Dan’s experience includes data management and analysis, program development and roll-out, greenhouse gas accounting, green building certifications and sustainability reporting. His interest for the environment extends past work, being an active contributor to the executive committee of the Canada Green Building Council’s Emerging Green Builders.
Dan stays active through several sports teams, including hockey, soccer, rock climbing 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. 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, energy, agriculture and manufacturing. His experience includes sustainability baseline measurement, benchmarking and gap analysis, strategy development, greenhouse gas modelling, climate change risk assessment, data verification, 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 focuses on developing responsible investment strategies and he supports investors and portfolio companies to measure and report Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) progress. Much of Phillip’s work includes the development of ESG policies and implementation strategies such as investment team training, due diligence checklists, asset monitoring and client reporting.
Phillip has cross-sector expertise in the investment sector, life insurance, pipelines, ports, utilities, conventional and renewable energy generation.
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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Chris Folkins
Chris is a recent graduate of Queen’s University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He brings a background in sustainability management and disclosure, having previously worked for General Motors’ Global Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Team. He is also licensed by PMI as a Certified Associate in Project Management. At Quinn & Partners, Chris is an analyst responsible for research and data analysis to support clients’ sustainability strategies, business integration, measurement and reporting.
In his free time, he enjoys staying active and has ran a marathon in the past.
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Tim Robinson
Tim is a recent graduate of the MGA program at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Upon graduating, he pursued the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (SASB) Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting accreditation and is currently a Level II Candidate.
Tim also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Center for Development and Strategy, a non-profit think tank providing thought leadership on issues at the intersection of development, sustainability, and security.
Outside of work, Tim stays active through running basketball, and ultimate frisbee, and enjoys taking in the musical and culinary offerings Toronto has to offer.
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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.