Item - 2024.CA14.1

Appointees' biographies:

Graysanne Bedell

Graysanne Bedell, Bachelor of Arts, Juris Doctor, acquired a broad range of legal and business experience through a 30 year career in law spent largely as the executive in charge of legal affairs for several corporations. An equally important part of her life involved service on the board of a charity, Street Haven at the Crossroads, and creation of a fund to help non-profit organizations. Since retiring from practise, she has sought to use her skills in support of environmental issues.

Andrew Dooner

Andrew Dooner is a Partner at Strategy& - PricewaterhouseCoopers' global strategy consulting practice. He has over 20 years of experience working with public and private sector organizations to address their most pressing strategic challenges; including those posed by climate change and resource strain. He has served as a senior executive in a large Canadian climate/carbon investment fund; and for the past 4 years has served on the Board of The Atmospheric Fund; most recently as Human Resource Committee Chair. 

Wayne Miranda

Wayne Miranda is the Founder of Wecelium which builds social finance intermediaries to raise and deploy capital to improve access to social finance among underserved communities, areas, and sectors across Canada. Wayne brings 17 years of experience in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. Most of his career has been in impact investing including as Founding Chief Executive Officer of Growth Mosaic, a “Best for the World” B Corporation based in West Africa putting to work over $26 million US Dollars.

Parminder Sandhu

Parminder Sandhu is an experienced board member and seasoned executive within the climate solutions and sustainability industry.  Parminder has designed, developed, or delivered over $2.6 billion dollars in energy efficiency programming across North America. These programs have spanned energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable finance, grants, and decarbonization. His primary focus now is direct investments in cleantech. 

The Civic Appointments Committee recommends that:  

1. City Council appoint the following candidates to the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Board, at pleasure of Council, for a term of office ending on March 22, 2028, and until successors are appointed:

Graysanne Bedell;

Andrew Dooner;

Wayne Miranda; and

Parminder Sandhu.

2. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 and Confidential Attachment 2 in its entirety, remain confidential as they relate to personal information about identifiable individuals being considered for appointment to the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Board.

Candidates' biographies

Graysanne Bedell

Ms. Bedell, Bachelor of Arts, Juris Doctor, acquired a broad range of legal and business experience through a 30 year career in law spent largely as the executive in charge of legal affairs for several corporations. An equally important part of her life involved service on the board of a charity, Street Haven at the Crossroads, and creation of a fund to help non-profit organizations. Since retiring from practise, she has sought to use her skills in support of environmental issues.

Andrew Dooner

Andrew Dooner is a Partner at Strategy& - PricewaterhouseCoopers' global strategy consulting practice. He has over 20 years of experience working with public and private sector organizations to address their most pressing strategic challenges; including those posed by climate change and resource strain. He has served as a senior executive in a large Canadian climate / carbon investment fund; and for the past 4 years has served on the board of The Atmospheric Fund; most recently as Human Resource Committee Chair. 

Wayne Miranda

 Wayne Miranda is the Founder of Wecelium which builds social finance intermediaries to raise and deploy capital to improve access to social finance among underserved communities, areas, and sectors across Canada. Wayne brings 17 years of experience in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. Most of his career has been in impact investing including as Founding Chief Executive Officer of Growth Mosaic, a “Best for the World” B Corporation based in West Africa putting to work over $26 million US Dollars.

Parminder Sandhu

Parminder Sandhu is an experienced board member and seasoned executive within the climate solutions and sustainability industry.  Parminder has designed, developed, or delivered over $2.6 billion dollars in energy efficiency programming across North America. These programs have spanned energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable finance, grants, and decarbonization. His primary focus now is direct investments in cleantech. 

This report recommends the appointment of four public members to the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Board.