INFUZION - Key Persons

Aliénor (Allie) Rougeot is a third-year economics and public policy student at the University of Toronto ("UofT"). Her early interest in human rights and the environment began at the age of 10, inspiring her to become a climate justice activist in high school. She started as a fierce advocate for wildlife protection and biodiversity laws but began focusing her efforts on the climate crisis once it became apparent that crucial emission reduction targets were not being met. Since then, her dedication to the cause has led to her recognition in Toronto Post Magazine's '20 Under 20', and Corporate Knights' '30 Under 30'. In addition, she received the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace's ("VOW") Kim Phuc Youth Award, and the 2019 Climate Arts Awards' Youth Climate Award. VOW is Canada's longest-standing feminist peace group, and the 2,000-member, non-partisan group holds consultative status at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. At UofT, Allie organized a campus-wide campaign to reduce single-use plastics. The subsequent creation of a nearby bottled water operation by a multinational corporation appeared to offset the positive results of her efforts. As a result, Allie felt her individual changes, choices, and initiatives were being undermined by large stakeholders, and began advocating for the use of strikes, voting, and other vehicles to directly appeal to, and promote action amongst, employers, governments, and corporations. Since January 2019, Allie has been the Lead Coordinator of the Toronto chapter of Fridays for Future, the worldwide youth climate strike movement started by Greta Thunberg. Speaking to Corporate Knights, Allie stated, "My dream would be that every student graduating in 2020 and 2021 feels as though they are a climate leader, no matter which field they go into."

David Rutherford is VP, ESG Services at NEI Investments. He originally joined NEI as VP Marketing in August 2016 with a mandate to lead the re-positioning of the organization around Responsible Investing (RI). In his current role since May 2019, David is leading NEI's ESG team and program helping reinforce the company's leadership position in the rapidly changing investment landscape and increasingly competitive RI space. A highly versatile leader with 30+ years' experience in corporate, government, agency and non-profit organizations, David holds an undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University, and earned a master's degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, where he examined the impact of digital technology on human behaviour and interaction. He has also earned his living as an abstract oil painter, cartoonist, writer and journalist.

Job Titles:

• Commercial Executive
• Founder, the Infuzion Group & FemmeBright Health

Founder and CEO of The Infuzion Group and FemmeBright Health, Lisa Lechner is a veteran commercial executive and entrepreneur within the global healthcare sector. With more than 25 years of experience, executives and entrepreneurs have come to rely on Lisa as a positive team leader, member and forward-thinking problem solver. Her unique combination of end-to-end traditional and technology healthcare expertise spans: Strategic Planning, New Product Planning, Marketing, Business Development, Multichannel Marketing, Medical Communication, Decision Support, Data Analytics, AI and Healthtech. As the driving force behind The Infuzion Group, Lisa has worked in Executive and Strategic Advisory roles to technology and digital start-up's and SME's pursuing entrance or expansion in the Healthcare and LifeSciences sectors. Since inception, The Infuzion Group has provided Strategic Planning, Market Research and New Product Go/No-Go decision-making solutions to the BioPharmaceutical industry. Past clients have included a diverse group of Canadian, American and European-based multinational companies supporting successful product launches, recoveries, extensions, and co-promotion strategies across a broad range of primary care and specialty therapeutic categories. Throughout her experience working with leading innovators in the healthcare industry, Lisa has become dedicated to bridging the gap that most women face when it comes to their healthcare. She has seen first-hand the critical need for timely, innovative, and effective solutions and resources for conditions and diseases that solely, disproportionately and differently affect women. With this mission in mind, she co-founded FemmeBright Health, a digital health company that is looking to transform the patient journey that women face when navigating life-changing chronic health conditions such as autoimmune disease.

Job Titles:

• President and CEO of InStore Group of Companies

Michael Bruce Davidson was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1965 to parents, Thelma Davidson and the late Brian Davidson. Brian Davidson was an entrepreneur, businessman and later Executive Vice President of Loblaw Companies before his death in 1992. Thelma was a medical secretary. Michael has two sisters, Miriam and Toby. Growing up Michael was always a creative and innovative thinker; often challenging his teachers. He found the structure of formal education monotonous and boring and after much resistance from his parents he decided to leave school at the early age of 20 to launch his own successful career as an entrepreneur. Today Michael Davidson is an accomplished businessman with a global perspective. At an early age his father taught him the power of retail. He convinced him the value of selling commodities to retailers. Michael took his advice and started his first company called Trinity Plastic Products in 1985. He bought and sold supply items used every day in grocery retail and within a few short years was became very established. As a true entrepreneur and visionary he took his early success and invested that into introducing the world to the first compartment zing shopping carts and containers called the Greenbox System. Michael convinced retailers that plastic bags weren't environmentally conscious. His suggestion was that they should be replaced with hard rigid containers made of plastic that consumers could purchase and bring back to the store instead of plastic bags, saving millions of bags from ending up in landfills. The Greenbox System became a success with retailers like Loblaw's in Canada and Safeway in England stepping up and embracing the system. His efforts didn't stop there he worked with manufacturers around the world developing and making his products better and more cost effective. His keen eye for detail and relentless pursuit of perfection made manufactures revisit their technologies and practices to share his dream of a new retail world. He has invented, patented, and reshaped many ways that retailers do business today. Today, Michael is President and CEO of InStore Group of Companies based in Toronto comprising of 5 inter companies that support and service the North American retail market. In addition he is President Indeed Laboratories. A cosmetics company that is changing the way every day consumers purchase affordable anti aging products that really work.

Job Titles:

• Co - Chair of the Toronto Climate Action Network
• Expert

Stefan Hostetter is a Toronto-based climate expert, storyteller, and community builder. Stefan works with the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) in Toronto as the Community Manager of CSI Spadina and Project Coordinator for the Agents of Change: Climate Solutions program. CSI's vision is a world where people and the planet come first, building a movement of nonprofits, for-profits, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists working across sectors to build a better world. They are a co-working space, community, and launchpad with locations in Toronto and New York City, providing members with the tools to accelerate their success and amplify their impact. Outside of CSI, Stefan is the Co-Chair of the Toronto Climate Action Network (TCAN), an action-oriented outreach organization working towards addressing the threat of climate change via public awareness, education and support alongside other organizations with similar objectives and goals. In addition, he co-hosts the ‘Green Majority', a nationally-syndicated radio show focused on environmental topics. He also co-produces the 'Stories We Don't Tell', a monthly storytelling series and podcast that dives into the parts of people's lives that society often leaves untold. Bolstering his long-held dedication to environmentalism, Stefan graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Environmental Studies and Philosophy in 2012. His subsequent positions and passion projects exemplify his on-going commitment to the environment, and to being at the frontlines of progress.