Board of Directors
T.R. Clapp
President & Board Member since August 2000
T. R. (Bob) Clapp worked for Imperial Oil beginning in 1966 and retired as Director of Safety and Environmental Affairs in 1996. Following his successful career at Imperial, Bob joined the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI) in Ottawa as Vice President External Relations and was later appointed Vice President, Ontario Division in Toronto and retired from CPPI in 2004.
Bob is one of the founding members of the Clean Air Foundation, now Summerhill Impact, and has held the position of President since the organization’s inception. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, National Advisory Council on Energy Efficiency and has served on several boards and executive councils including of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, an advisor to the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation and a member of the Standards Council Advisory Committee on Environmental Management Systems.
Lloyd Taylor
Vice President & Secretary & Board Member since October 2007
Lloyd Taylor is the founder and President of Taylor Label (www.taylorlabel.com), a Toronto area manufacturer with world-wide sales of niche, pressure-sensitive, label products. Post-university, Lloyd spent several years working in the label industry and then launched Taylor Label in the early 1990's out of a desire to bring new solutions to a mature market. Since that time, Taylor Label has become the segment leader in barcoded, blank and digitally-printed labels.
Lloyd's commitment to minimizing his own environmental footprint has been a guiding principle for Taylor Label. The company was recently voted “The Most Environmentally Progressive Printer in Canada” and is the first label company in North America to be FSC-certified.
Alex Chamberlain, LLB, MBA, CFA
Treasurer & Board Member since June 2008
Alex Chamberlain is a Managing Partner at Investeco (www.investeco.com), an investment management firm that invests in companies specializing in renewable energy, water, sustainable agriculture and clean technologies through its private and public equity fund offerings.
Prior to Investeco, Alex practiced law at Smith Lyons (now Gowlings) and worked in the Corporate Finance & Investment Banking Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities Inc. Alex is a director of UV Pure Technologies, EnerWorks, Rowe Farm Meats, Key Publishers, and Green Living Enterprises, and is also on the advisory committee of the Environmental Finance Workshop Series at the University of Toronto.
Joan King
Board Member since April 2001
Joan King’s twenty-year political career encompassed the City of Toronto Council, Metro Council and the North York Board of Education. As Chair of the Metro Works Committee she showed leadership on many environment issues. She initiated the Blue Ribbon Committee on Air Quality and garnered support across the GTA for its innovative recommendations.
Joan is currently the President of JK Consulting and a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario.
Dr. Quentin Chiotti
Board Member since September 2004
Dr. Quentin Chiotti has a Ph. D. in Geography from the University of Western Ontario and has worked extensively in the area of climate change since 1993. He has worked for Pollution Probe since 2002 and was appointed the Climate Change Programme Director at Pollution Probe in April 2007. He has published over 40 articles in scholarly journals and books, and is the co-lead author of the Ontario chapter to the national report “From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007”. He was the recipient of the 2007 Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Service to Government or Business, and was recently appointed to the Ontario Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation.
Quentin has represented Pollution Probe on over a dozen environment-related advisory boards and committees, including the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Network (Ontario), the Management Committee of the Air Quality Health Index, and the Federal-Provincial Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Air Issues.
Paul Berto
Board Member since December 2009
Paul Berto is currently the Director of Corporate Communications and External Affairs at The Home Depot, where he is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of public relations, government relations and community programs. Paul started as the Eco Options Marketing Manager helping to develop key environmental programs. Further Paul assists with The Home Depot’s corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability initiatives.
Prior to joining The Home Depot, Paul was Director of Advertising and Promotions at Hallmark Canada where he initiated branded consumer programs and also developed and implemented in-store merchandising and point of purchase programs. As a marketing graduate from Ryerson University in Toronto, Paul lends his time to the institution’s Business Mentoring Program as well as SKETCH, a non for profit group that helps create opportunities for street involved kids through the arts.
Aaron Dobbin
Board Member since December 2009
Aaron Dobbin is a Principal at Present Storm, a Toronto based public affairs consulting firm specializing in energy and infrastructure. Aaron has a unique combination of ten years of experience at the senior levels of the Ontario public service. He served as Director of Policy and Research, as well as economic and energy advisor, to Premier Dalton McGuinty. During his tenure in the Premier’s Office, Aaron’s responsibilities included smart meter implementation, conservation initiatives and the Green Energy Act. Prior to 2003, he was senior advisor to the Deputy Minister of Finance and worked for the province of British Columbia and the federal government negotiating aboriginal treaties in central and northern BC.
Fiona Oliver-Glasford
Board Member since December 2009
Fiona strives to advance environment and sustainability issues with sound business principles. Currently, Fiona is accountable for Union Gas Ltd’s energy demand side management policy planning. Before that role, Fiona spent ten years developing and running numerous high profile and award-winning energy efficiency market transformation programs – including several career changing years with Summerhill.
Prior to working in the environmental sectors, Fiona held various sales and marketing roles at Towers Perrin, Corus Entertainment and Mosaic. Fiona holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and is on the executive of her local non-profit mother’s organization.
