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