Anthony Watanabe

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Anthony Watanabe

President & CEO, The Innovolve Group Inc., Canada

For the past decade, Anthony has been working with businesses and governments to help them derive value through sustainability.

For the past 2 years, Anthony has been part of a global team travelling the world promoting the market transformation to zero energy homes. This initiative has taken his team to Brussels, Paris, Melbourne, Sao Paolo, all over the US, and culminating in a feature presentation at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico last December.

In 2009, he took his firm on a path to becoming an important voice in the evolving "Canadian Water Story". Innovolve now runs an annual water summit, offers a water footprinting service and produces water intelligence reports for industry and government, all with a view to helping Canada lead a sustainable water future both at home and
abroad.

Innovolve is also very active in the packaging sector, working with groups like P&G, Bayer and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. A recent Innovolve project, PACNext, is an industry collaboration imagining "a world without packaging waste".

A national board member of the Packaging Association, Dr. Watanabe is widely recognized as a thought leader in the business of sustainability with publications, presentations and media appearances in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe.