The Environmental Nominating Panel recommends that:

1. City Council appoint the following candidates to The Atmospheric Fund Board of Directors, at pleasure of Council, for a term of office ending on May 24, 2021, and until successors are appointed:

Jacoline Loewen

Kimberly Marshall

Susan McLean

2. City Council direct that Confidential Attachments 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the report (April 26, 2017) from the City Clerk remain confidential in their entirety as they relate to personal matters about identifiable individuals being considered for appointment to The Atmospheric Fund Board.

Candidates' biographies:

Jacoline Loewen

Jacoline Loewen works with mid-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs. She specializes in investments, financing, private equity and governance. She brings knowledge of venture capital, strategy and investments in the private market. She is the author of hundreds of articles and three books; the most recent - Money Magnet: Attract investors to your business - is used by Ivey and Ryerson as a text. Jacoline is a director of the Private Capital Market Association.

Kimberly Marshall

Kimberly Marshall is Vice-President, Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer at the IESO. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant with experience in many industries. These include PricewaterhouseCoopers and 11 years with IBM in a variety of financial and operational roles. Ms. Marshall has an ICD designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and received her Masters in Business Administration from York University. 

Susan McLean

Susan McLean is a member of the Senior Management Group for the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. She manages a team of senior policy professionals who deliver the commercialization and innovation programming and policy for Ontario's innovation ecosystem investments. Susan brings more than 15 years of experience working in capital markets and public/private sector roles, and draws upon broad and well-developed connections in the innovation, social finance and green economy sectors.

City Council needs to appoint three public members to serve on the board of The Atmospheric Fund (TAF). The Environmental Nominating Panel will interview candidates at its meeting on May 8, 2017, and recommend three public members to fill these positions.