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Brian Smith

Managing Director, Engagement & Market Development

Brian Smith is an experienced leader and advisor in the social innovation and impact investing space. He is an Advisory Member for TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good and the co-founder and Board Chair of Persephone Brewing Company – a Certified B Corp that is widely recognized as an early adopter and model of ecologically positive systems, including regenerative agriculture and community impact. Working at the intersection of clean technology, finance and climate action, Brian is passionate about mobilizing finance solutions that can catalyze the adoption of regenerative agriculture and other nature-based solutions to the climate emergency. Brian served as Executive Director of a Community Futures office and was a co-founding partner and CEO at Rhiza Capital, where he helped unlock more than $180M of new capital for investment in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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#400 - 119 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON M5V 2L1 

 

Vancouver
#304 - 134 Abbott Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2K4

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Boann is one of three wholesalers appointed through a competitive, merit-based process by the Government of Canada to invest a portion of the $755M Social Finance Fund (SFF), an initiative that seeks to accelerate the growth of Canada’s social finance market. The SFF supports charities, non-profits, social enterprises, co-operatives and other social purpose organizations (SPOs) in accessing flexible financing opportunities. Greater access to social finance through the SFF will help them grow, innovate, and enhance their social and environmental impacts.

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Boann respectfully acknowledges that our offices and staff are located on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), ̓ Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ), lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen), and Wyandot Nations, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. We are committed to listening, educating ourselves on decolonization, and to uplift and celebrate the Indigenous peoples of these lands.

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