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Board of Directors & Management

Executive Board Members

Bettina Hoar
Chair

Bettina Hoar, BSc (Hons), MBAA, CSBA

Bettina is the founder of Sage Living Toronto, a sustainable building consulting firm with a focus on health & wellbeing in the built environment. Bettina is a Subject Matter Expert on Indoor Environmental Quality with Enbridge’s Savings by Design program and founding member of the GreenBuildingLearningZone.org, a green building education collaborative. An avid traveller, Bettina has lived and worked in the US, Germany, Spain, Bahamas, Uruguay and Canada.
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Amelia Phillips Robbins
Vice Chair

Amelia Phillips Robbins
Vice Chair

Amelia Phillips Robbins is an experienced litigator with a diverse practice spanning real estate, construction, commercial leasing, shareholder disputes, professional liability, insurance, labour and employment, and intellectual property. Her governance and regulatory perspective will help SBC navigate the evolving legal landscape shaping building performance, development, and sustainability.
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Sebastián Carrizo
Secretary

Sebastián Carrizo

In Sebastián’s current position, he works on projects in pursuit of various sustainability and energy objectives, with the majority of his work revolving around: energy analysis and modelling, daylight modelling and analysis, passive design, the Toronto Green Standard, energy incentive coordination, and sustainability. Sebastián holds a B.Eng. from The Intituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and an M. Eng. from Carleton University. Sebastian has participated as an Energy Modeller and proponent in SBD programs in the past. He is an active volunteer and participant in the BBBC as both a member of the Advisory Panel and as a speaker. He also participated in SBC’s D+IDEA3 Advisory Panel.
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Ryan Evans
Treasurer

Ryan Evans

Ryan is a specialist in high performance building design and operations. As principal of EVNA Engineering, Ryan and his team assist their clients with achieving their sustainability objectives in the built environment. From a young age, Ryan has loved to build things and solve problems. Today, that childhood passion is what drives him forward as he works on developing innovative solutions to combat the ever growing problem of climate change. As a proponent of the Integrated Design Approach—the collaborative alignment of an entire project team to the same design objectives—Ryan believes that together we can design high performance buildings that are accessible, affordable, and energy efficient, in both the new and retrofit built environment. Ryan holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP), and is bilingual in English and French.
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Board Members

Christine Abe

Christine Abe, B.L.A., O.A.L.A., C.S.L.A., A.S.L.A.

Christine is a landscape architect and Principal at The MBTW Group with over 30 years of experience in the field of Landscape Architecture. She has a wide range of experience in various scales of projects including numerous site plan, mixed use, institutional, school, park, condominium design, streetscape and commercial centre projects. In addition, she has been involved in the master planning of parks, new communities, schools, and institutional projects.
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Rovita Nawbatt

Rovita Nawbatt

Rovita helps leaders build organizations where people and performance thrive. With over 10 years of experience in People & Culture, organizational design, and talent acquisition across complex public-sector and financial services environments, she supports organizations to attract, engage, and elevate talent while reducing business risk. Rovita sees talent strategy as a catalyst for enterprise-wide transformation and has led inclusive hiring redesigns, built future-ready workforce plans, and embedded people and culture into executive decision-making. Becoming a mother inspired her to pursue an Executive MBA, strengthening her ability to bridge business and people and champion workplaces that are both ambitious and deeply human.
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Eli Miller

Eli Miller

Results-driven, passionate management professional with extensive project management and technical experience and a proven track record of exceeding expectations in a deadline-focused environment. Talented leader; able to effectively plan project work and resolve issues while managing, motivating, and guiding the team. Highly skilled in understanding needs and translating them into practical real world solutions. Passionate about economically viable, environmentally sustainable design, development and construction. Diverse experience includes various operations, project and program management roles in construction, multi-residential and commercial real estate. Eli has been a proponent at SBD workshops.
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Marianne Touchie

Marianne Touchie

Marianne Touchie is the Director of the Building Energy and Indoor Environment Lab and a Principal Investigator at the University of Toronto’s Hub for Advancing Buildings. Her research focuses on improving the energy performance and indoor environmental quality of existing buildings through retrofit strategies that support comfort, health, and sustainability, with an emphasis on high-rise and multi-unit residential buildings, particularly social housing. Marianne is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Civil & Mineral Engineering and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. She joined U of T in 2016 and received tenure in 2022, after completing her BASc and PhD in Civil Engineering and serving as Building Research Manager at the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. She is President of the Building Science Specialist Board of Canada, a former Chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.1, and teaches Building Science and HVAC Fundamentals.
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Brady McLeod

Brady McLeod

Brady McLeod is a Toronto-based legal executive serving as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Peakhill Capital. He brings deep expertise in real estate finance, private credit, and regulatory compliance, with a track record of advising senior leadership and boards in highly regulated environments. Brady oversees enterprise risk, governance frameworks, and national compliance programs, including securities, mortgage, and AML obligations. Prior to Peakhill, he held senior legal roles at Oxford Properties Group and began his career at Stikeman Elliott LLP. He is recognized for his pragmatic, business-oriented approach and his ability to navigate complex transactions and regulatory landscapes. He holds a law degree and is called to the Ontario Bar.
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Board Associates

Eman Abdelsabour

Eman Abdelsabour

Eman A. Sabour is an architect and sustainability strategist specializing in embodied carbon, climate-responsive design, and the integration of ESG principles into project delivery. Her work spans architecture, urban design, and systems thinking, with a focus on practical tools, metrics, and workflows that enable design teams to deliver efficient, low-carbon, high-performance projects. She has developed integrated frameworks and digital tools that embed carbon literacy, accessibility, wellness, and resilience into everyday design practice. Based in Toronto, Eman is committed to advancing a built environment where environmental responsibility, health, and equity are practical, achievable, and inseparable—project by project, team by team.
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Ria Perrault

Ria Perrault

Ria Perrault, of the Better Buildings and Climate team at MaRS Discovery District, brings a research-driven and innovation-focused perspective to SBC’s Board Associates. With an MSc in Environmental Sustainability, Ria specializes in scalable climate solutions, innovation ecosystem development, and supporting technologies that accelerate deep energy retrofits across the province.
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Örjan Lundberg

Örjan Lundberg

Örjan Lundberg is the founder of D’Niche Inc. and a seasoned sustainability and ESG strategist specializing in sports, mega-events, and complex infrastructure projects. With over 20 years of international experience, he helps organizations develop practical solutions to climate, circularity, and green building challenges. His work includes leading the FIFA World Cup’s sustainability program, developing innovative green certifications, and advancing decarbonization strategies. Through D’Niche, Örjan translates global sustainability goals into actionable roadmaps that deliver measurable impact and long-term value for clients and communities.
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Natalia Ortiz Moreno

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Natalia Ortiz, student of Project Management Environmental (PME) program in Seneca Polytechnic, has an Environmental Engineering background completed at Universidad El Bosque in Colombia. She has always been involved in sustainability roles and projects that included Environmental Management Systems implementation, Water Treatment Systems’ design and operation, Hazardous and Conventional Waste management and minimization practices, as well as Ecosystem’s Conservation and Energy
Efficiency programs.

For the PME – Applied Project Management Course, Natalia developed a Green Roof Assessment Tool for Seneca Polytechnic’s Office of Sustainability, with the aim to provide green roof technology recommendations best suited to a particular scenario, taking into consideration multiple aspects of green roofs and buildings; infrastructure, design, materials, environmental factors, and costs, as well as the Toronto Municipal Code – Green Roof bylaw. Natalia also has a scientific journal publication as the main author of the project “Selection and sizing of industrial wastewater treatment units required at the
new maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) aircraft facility owned by Avianca S.A. in Rionegro Antioquia” in the El Bosque University Journal of Technology.

Natalia strongly believes there are several research topics left to be developed, and the importance of
working towards Sustainability from different backgrounds, knowledge, and cultures to build strong, productive, and resilient communities.
With the vision of growing cities and infrastructure along with nature, always preserving and respecting the ecosystems’ attributes and services, Natalia would like to keep researching and acquiring more experience in Sustainability roles.



Emily Smit

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Emily is a second-year PhD student in Geography at the University of Toronto, and a co-operator of a small home renovation company, Magnus Home Improvements. Her research seeks to determine how single-family homes can quickly and best be retrofit to achieve Toronto’s emissions reductions targets – including net-zero by 2040 – as part of the TransformTO climate action plan. Specifically, she will assess the impact of municipal home energy reporting and disclosure programs, as well as produce recommendations for growing the retrofit labour force in ways that attend to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Further, her research seeks to understand how home retrofit activities can be regenerative and produce net-positive impacts for humans and the environment towards transformative, place-based sustainability. When not at her computer, Emily can be found cycling with her kids to and from school or making funky sounds on her analog synthesizer.

Bofa Udisi

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Bofa is a sustainability professional with over seven years in the energy and environment industry. He has a Bachelor of Science in Energy and Petroleum Studies from Novena University in Nigeria and graduate certificates in Energy Management and Environmental Project Management from Seneca College in Toronto. In 2020, he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Master of Environment and Business degree. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Building Science program at Toronto Metropolitan University, researching whole-life carbon reduction in new construction and building renovations.

Bofa‘s work experience is primarily in the built environment, working in the private and public sectors in roles that involve structural and environmental assessment of building structures, HVAC engineering design and sales, and facilities management. Bofa is a member of several industry associations, such as the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), the American Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). SBC’s bursary will go a long way in supporting Bofa‘s research and his desire to learn.

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