Shannon Bard
Executive in Residence @Foresight Canada
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WORK HISTORY
Executive in Residence @Foresight Canada
Vancouver, BC, CA
Mentor CEOs, CTOs, and CSOs from cleantech ventures to support their development from early stage to scale across sectors including clean energy, sustainable mining, water treatment, circular economy, smart agriculture, ocean economy and others. Provide advice related to strategy; study design and data interpretation; environmental science technical expertise; industrial-academic partnerships; research & commercialization funding; regulatory engagement to remove barriers to clean tech adoption; innovative strategies to create novel markets for cleantech; stakeholder and Indigenous engagement to address community concerns and successfully attain social license; technology-market matching; impact framework and metrics for compelling storytelling; strategies to rapidly accelerate commercialization, adoption, and scaling.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow, Biological Oceanography (Marine Ecological Toxicology)
Nantes Université
Diplome de l'université (Majeur), Marine Biotechnology and Biochemistry
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Honors, Firestone Medal for Research Excellence, Biological Sciences
SKILLS
ABOUT SHANNON BARD
To facilitate the successful incubation and acceleration of high potential start-ups, Shannon provides hands-on support and advice to venture founders and mentors R&D teams developing and commercialize cutting edge technologies and services across diverse environmental, biomedical, and engineering disciplines. She forges interdisciplinary industrial-academic-regulatory research partnerships to provide innovative solutions for clients. Shannon is a dynamic leader & innovator with >30 years experience in corporate innovation, cleantech & sustainability, habitat restoration & conservation, marine biology, environmental toxicology, eco-risk & human health assessment, and biomedical research. She has extensive experience in leading regional, national & international multidisciplinary technical teams to tackle complex interdisciplinary environmental problems. Her environmental health & sustainability work requires forging working relationships with multiple stakeholders: business & industry, government regulators & environmental managers, politicians, academia, environmental groups, First Nations, media & the public.Her ability to translate science into language accessible to the lay public makes her a popular invited speaker internationally and media interview subject. She has delivered ~200 invited presentations in >12 countries. Through her Board & Committee work with BCBC, AMEBC & SABCS, and her collaborative industrial-academic research program, she promotes management strategies based on science that successfully integrate environmental, social, & economic health outcomes. She is the founding Director of Coastal Scene Investigation supporting stakeholder engagement in resolving complex interdisciplinary environmental health issues, public marine science education, marine ecotoxicology research & conservation programs. Formerly, Shannon was a professor of Environmental Science at Dalhousie University, Director of the Marine Ecotoxicology Laboratory, co-winner of Senate Environmental Award & inaugural winner of the national YTV Environmental Achievement Award.
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