Board and Team
Our Board
Isabel Gordon
Isabel spent 27 years at the City of North Vancouver, 8 as Director of Finance. She is now the Director of Financial Services for the District of West Vancouver and has established an Asset Management accounting and funding system. She has also worked on getting Canadian accounting standards to recognize natural capital and as a fundable asset category.
Emanuel Machado
Emanuel is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town of Gibsons. He worked with communities across Canada to promote renewable energy, net-zero buildings, water strategies, social plans and sustainability frameworks. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the Arbor Vitae Award from the Province of British Columbia and the Professional Award for Innovation in local government.
Natalia Moudrak
Natalia is a Director, Climate Resiliency Leader at Aon’s Public Sector Partnership (PSP), which focuses on developing innovative solutions to help governments and other public institutions reduce volatility and increase the resiliency of their mission. The PSP is a global team of talented colleagues that have deep experience serving in government, insurance, reinsurance, and the capital markets.
Prior to joining Aon, Natalia worked as Director of Climate Resilience at the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation where she led the development of programs, guidelines and standards for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction in Canada.
Mike Puddister
Mike was Deputy Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Watershed Transformation at Credit Valley Conservation Authority. He’s a founding member of the Ontario Network on Ecosystem Services, and was a member of the Research Management Committee for the Water Economics, Policy and Governance Network, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for EcoHealth Ontario, and of the Steering Committee for the Central West Local Health Integration Network Healthy Communities Initiative.
Jay Ritchlin
Jay is Director-General for Western Canada at the David Suzuki Foundation. He has more than 15 years’ experience working on solutions to environmental challenges including open net-pen aquaculture, offshore oil and gas, marine fisheries, toxins and seafood. He holds a Biology degree from Kenyon College, Ohio.
Meet the Team
Roy Brooke
Roy has worked in Canada, Europe and Africa in urban sustainability, national politics, international development and humanitarian affairs. He served as Director of Sustainability for the City of Victoria from 2011 to 2013 and between 2003 and 2011 he worked for the United Nations.
Donna Chiarelli
Donna brings 15 years of experience building the capacity of local governments with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, including a strong focus on supporting innovation in asset management. Donna provides support for MNAI to participating municipalities for core asset management concepts.
Liese Coulter
Liese’s work with MNAI is to help better understand professional norms and educational competencies to support natural asset practices. She was a Mitacs Science Policy Fellow with the B.C. government and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. Liese holds a PhD from Griffith University and a MScCommunication from the Australian National University.
Megan Evans
Megan served nearly 20 years with the Province of British Columbia merging the needs of the community with the needs of the government. She now helps ensure the MNAI systems, administration, and processes are running smoothly to support the timely and effective delivery of MNAI projects.
Cheekwan Ho
Cheekwan provides communications support to MNAI. She has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate communications and broadcast journalism with municipal, provincial and federal governments, non-profit organizations, and television stations.
Stephan Jacob
Trained in Berlin and a CGD™ certified designer, Stephan brings polished, strategic design to MNAl’s publications - in print and online. Stephan is president of iD2 Communications Inc., a Victoria-based firm specializing in sustainable design solutions.
Karin Lengger
Karin has over 20 years of experience using numbers and systems to build organizational resilience. She ensures MNAI’s financial processes and records are accurate, valuable and useful.
Michelle Molnar
Michelle has 15+ years’ experience in Ecological Economics and inter-disciplinary research, focusing on conservation of natural capital using valuation, policy analysis, and public outreach. She has created and managed cross-functional teams, authored natural capital valuation reports, is past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, and served on the B.C. government’s Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council.
Sairah Tyler
Sairah is a community planner whose work addresses major socio-economic and environmental issues including water and watersheds, climate change impacts and adaptation, low impact development, urban forests and parks and open space systems. She helps deliver all aspects of MNAI’s municipal natural asset projects.
Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor is an environmental economist with extensive project and management experience. Amy is the Chief Operations Officer with Green Analytics that provides technical support to MNAI.
MNAI aims to make municipal natural asset management mainstream across Canada. Reach out to us today for more information.