John Wanczycki has lived and worked in Halifax since 1998. Over the course of a 25 year career, he has worked across Canada, the U.S. and in 12 other countries, as an environmental executive, consultant and entrepreneur. Since moving to Halifax, he has been engaged primarily in planning or directing multi-year international projects in infrastructure development, environmental management and capacity-building in Asia, Europe and Africa. He has also been acting as a consultant to the World Bank, CIDA and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation in the environmental assessment or oversight of projects involving new infrastructure, clean technology transfer and the transfer of expertise developed in Nova Scotia in industrial environmental management.

From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Wanczycki served as VP for the Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement, for whom he secured and directed projects and project planning and due diligence assignments, in Asia and Africa, and also participated in industrial energy management initiatives in Canada.

From 1998-2002, he worked as V.P. for Vaughan International Consultants of Halifax, where he managed a multi-year project in India and also secured business in Atlantic Canada. In the early nineties, Mr. Wanczycki was based in Washington D.C., where he worked as a consultant to U.S. Government and private interests in public-private partnerships for environmental infrastructure, risk analysis for large projects and the design of environmental capacity-building projects in Asia. He also represented Canada's Wastewater Technology Centre in Washington D.C.

In the mid-to-late nineties, he served as Vice President with Philip Utilities Management Corporation and founded a design-build company in Poland which has installed industrial wastewater treatment systems in privatized industrial operations. For Canadian Government Departments and others, he has also carried out policy studies and program reviews related to green industry, the management of publicly-funded R&D, environmental regulations, and transferring technology and know-how to emerging markets. He has designed and led training programs in negotiating strategic alliances and in various facets of environmental management in China, Central Europe, India, and elsewhere.

Mr. Wanczycki is fluent in English and French. He is a past graduate of Yale University's Corporate Environmental Leadership Seminar.

Al Ramsay is General Manager of AGAT Laboratories Ltd. located in the Burnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth. AGAT's Environmental Division works with Environmental Consultants, Industry and Governments to deliver a wide variety of environmental related analyses in support of remediation, environmental monitoring and drinking water projects and is accredited by CALA (formerly known as CAEAL) to ISO 17025.

Prior to joining AGAT to expand their environmental operations into Atlantic Canada in 2006, he was a Project Manager with an advertising agency focusing on the consumer packaged goods and retail sectors to deliver non-traditional marketing programs in Northeastern US markets and later as Field Operations Rep for an international brand during their expansion into Atlantic Canada.

Al holds Bachelor of Science and Business Administration degrees from St. Francis Xavier University and is also an NFPA certified Firefighter and Medical First Responder with HRM Fire, Station 50 Hammonds Plains.

Michael Bishop has served RBC Royal Bank for the past 10 years, 12 years in financial services altogether. Graduated with MBA from Dalhousie University in 2009 and BBA from Acadia University in 1993.

Other community involvement:
Currently a board member of Entrepreneurs�Forum
Numerous volunteer activities on behalf of RBC: most recently as a Business Advisor for Acadia University in the RBC Blue Water Challenge, a judge for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) regional competition and an RBC volunteer coordinator for the Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Monte Carlo Night Fundraiser.

Hamish Aubrey is an environmental scientist with Stantec and is currently involved in wetland assessment, climate change initiatives, and natural resource management. He has over eight years experience as an environmental professional, including several years working in government agencies in New Zealand and Australia. He has extensive experience in project management, and in collaborating and communicating with community and other stakeholders.

Hamish completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Science in New Zealand in 2002, and is keenly interested in ecosystem assessment, climate change impacts and adaption, and sustainable management of natural resources.

Andrew Thalheimer has 22 years of experience working in environmental consulting, focusing in phased environmental site assessments, risk assessments, remedial design, remediation and construction management. Currently, he is an Associate and project manager at Dillon Consulting. Prior to join Dillon, Mr. Thalheimer worked in the mid-Atlantic region of the US with a number of environmental consulting firms where he worked on large-scale CERCLA (Superfund) and RCRA remedial projects as well as numerous projects under voluntary state remediation programs.

Mr. Thalheimer is a licensed/certified professional engineer in Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania and LEED Accredited Professional. He earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1988 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delaware in 1997. During the course of his professional career, he has taken numerous continuing education courses including courses on professional practice, leadership, and various remedial technologies. In addition, he has co-authored two professional papers.

As president, Andrew serves to ensure the significant wealth of multi-faceted director resources are coordinated and applied at highest potential to achieve and maintain ESANS position as Nova Scotia's premiere resource for the environmental sector.

Andrew Kendall has worked at various off and on-shore oil and gas drilling exploration sites throughout the world as a well-site geologist. Other placements have been with the Province of Nova Scotia Departments of Mines and Energy, Environment, and the Petroleum Directorate (now Department of Energy). Much of his time with NS Environment was spent as the Environmental Assessment Administrator where he was responsible for coordinating the environmental assessments of numerous large scale industrial developments. A move back to the oil and gas industry followed with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers where Andrew worked as a policy analyst for offshore environmental and safety regulatory issues facing the developing oil and gas industry.

Andrew has been in his current position heading up the Industry Liaison Office for St. Francis Xavier University since 2004, thus completing a career circle with experience in large industry, government, small business and now, academia. Here he has wide-ranging responsibilities focused on applied research - research that has a goal of seeking innovative, new technological solutions to industry problems. These responsibilities include managing intellectual property protection of research results that have commercial applications, seeking funding opportunities for applied, industry sponsored research, and managing the commercialization chain that includes collaborative research with industry, licensing university inventions, and encouraging more applied university research with local Nova Scotia industries and businesses.

Meinhard Pfanner is President and CEO of IMI Investment Management Inc., a Land-Project-Development/Management Company. IMI has interests in a Photo-Voltaic-Solar Park (10MW) investment with a German Investor Group into Canada.

IMI is investing in a Net Zero Plus House Project called SolSpa House (awarded 2007 Solar Decathlon) and will be built in 2010. IMI has additional interests in renewable energy and integration with sustainable building.

Meinhard is founder, CEO, and Patron of ACI - Art Connection International. International Service Company, which consults, supports and connects artists, museums, galleries, companies and collectors. In 1999 Meinhard sold his companies owned in Germany and Luxembourg and retired at the Eastern Shore in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Meinhard has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the Marketing-Management Sector. His main area was the field of Marketing Communication Consulting, Training, Recruiting/Placement, Project-/ Interims-Management and Start-up Event Organizer and Promoter.

Norval Collins, President of CEF Consultants Ltd., has worked as a fisheries biologist and environmental planner in the Maritimes for over 35 years. He is a licensed professional planner in Nova Scotia and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Mr. Collins has specialized in environmental planning and the synthesis of information covering both environmental and land-use issues, with particular emphasis on freshwater and marine fish habitat.

Previous studies have included national implementation plans; suitability of international protocols to address environmental degradation; state-of-the-environment reporting; user needs analysis; preparation of marine overviews; spatial analyses of ecological and socio-cultural factors; seasonal sensitivity analyses for seabird, marine mammals and fish habitat, as well as human use; and estimating resource production and value.

Environmental assessment and effects monitoring form much of his base work. He was previously on the board of the Environmental Industries Association and served as chair of the Development and Training Committee in the late 1990s. He was a founding member of the ClimAdapt team, established by ESANS and had lead many climate change initiatives on behalf of the association over the years.

Ian B. Bilek is a partner with the law firm of Cox & Palmer. Admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2003, Ian practices in the areas of corporate & commercial, real estate, construction & development, energy and resources, and environmental law. Recent experience includes numerous commercial real estate acquisitions and financings, numerous golf course/real estate developments, large scale land assembly projects for major mining and energy projects, and assessment of environmental liability and regulatory requirements for both proponents and financers of novel technology in the resource sector.

Ian is a member of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and the Nova Scotia Barristers Society. He is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (BSc.PE) and the University of New Brunswick (LLB). In addition to being an ESANS member, Ian is the Vice-Chair of the CBA Nova Scotia Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section, Chair of the Supporters of X-Men Soccer Society and a member of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association.

Jason Bernier, P.Eng., PMP, is Manager of CBCL Limited�s Environment and Planning Division in Atlantic Canada and is a professional engineer and certified project management professional with 13 years experience in environmental engineering and associated sciences. The groups that Mr. Bernier provides operational management for within his Division include Environmental Assessment, Site Assessment and Remediation, Indoor Environments and Planning and Landscape Architecture.

Mr. Bernier is also an experienced project manager with a client base including the Federal Government, Atlantic Provincial Governments, municipalities and many commercial and industrial clients. Many of these projects have been successfully managed and coordinated with multidisciplinary project teams on multiple projects in numerous regions concurrently. Mr. Bernier has worked throughout Canada on and offshore, the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, WI.