About Us

Modern West is a strategic advisory firm supporting companies across the globe with adoption of sustainability and climate business practices and solutions.

What makes us different? We are a multidisciplinary team that can support your business in key strategic areas – ESG reporting and strategy, GHG emissions quantification, carbon markets, and innovation. We focus on minimizing the risk to your capital expenditures, creating market leaders, and consequently, opening up your access to capital from outside sources. We’ve been in your shoes – our team has spent the majority of its career ‘in-house’. We are experts in challenging, dynamic and interconnected sustainability and emissions risk management practices.

MWA first seeks to understand the challenges our clients are trying to solve, and we ensure that their vision for organizational ambition is aligned with our own. Then we work with them to build a pragmatic, staged approach to developing solutions. We focus on reducing regulatory, stakeholder, and compliance risk through comprehensive analysis and continuous engagement with our clients and our deep network to maintain our knowledge and expertise.

Purpose. Passion. Performance.

Our Team

Jackson Hegland

President & CEO

Wayne Hillier

Chief Technology Officer

Matt Toohey

Chief Sustainability Officer

Zainab Dadashi, PhD., MSc

Vice President

Kavan Motazedi, P.Eng., PhD.

Vice President

Steve MacDonald

Executive Advisor

Paul McKendrick

Senior Advisor, Carbon Removal

Erika Brown, MBA, P.Eng

Lead, Carbon Markets

Nancie Lefebvre

Lead, Sustainability & ESG Advisory

Maren Blair

ESG & GHG Performance Advisor

Otome Afiegbe

Managing Director, African Operations

Jordan Flagel

Managing Director, Latin America

Lauren Bowman

Analyst, LCA & Emissions Performance

Owen Davis

Corporate Sustainability & Regulatory Advisor

Iain Grant-Weaver

Emissions Performance Advisor (E.I.T.)

Sharie Cameron

Executive Assistant

Saqr Abuhatab

ESG & GHG Performance Advisor

Danny Chiarastella

Finance Leader

Lily Lee

Accountant