Donovan Woollard is the CEO of OPEN Technologies. He has over 20 years of experience in designing, launching, leading, and advising environmental businesses in sectors such as carbon markets, green building, vertical agriculture, and social finance.

Donovan has long worked at the intersection of voluntary action and regulatory innovation around climate change. A throughline of his career is designing businesses and tools to address social and environmental outcomes in a market context. In addition to OPEN, this includes his role as the founding COO of Offsetters (now Ostrom Climate), Canada’s largest carbon offset and management company and as a founding investor and board member of Canada’s first B-Corp certified brewery. Immediately before OPEN, he spent five years as Co-Director of RADIUS, a venture incubator at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. He continues to mentor impact entrepreneurs around the world and sits on a range of corporate and non-profit boards.