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The full archive of organizations I've co-founded across two decades — for-profit companies, mission-driven non-profits, and industry consortia. Ten ventures, two exits.
Current
NodeBookFounder · AI & automation consulting
My AI & automation consulting practice. LLM-driven tools and apps, workflow automations, knowledge graphs, and multimodal generation for health-tech, sustainability, and creative-media clients. Also home of a long-term R&D thread building a temporal multimodal knowledge graph for personal and collective cognition.
2023 →
For-profit companies founded
Quantified CitizenCofounder & CEO
Mobile health-research platform applying AI, automation, and participatory science to behavioural studies. Produced one of the largest naturalistic datasets on psychedelic use globally; two peer-reviewed papers in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio).
2018 – 2026
RecollectiveCofounder · CEO · Exit
Values-driven green-building consultancy. 750+ green buildings in North America, 110+ LEED certifications, 200+ energy models, 30M+ ft² of development. Twice-certified B-Corp in the global top 10%.
2006 – 2022
OPEN Technologies Inc.Cofounder & President · Exit
Data-driven software that helps cities, governments, property owners, and investors reduce building energy use and carbon emissions through insights for decarbonization, benchmarking, retrofit planning, and net-zero readiness.
2017 – 2021
GBAT Technologies Inc.Cofounder & Director
Locative-media company recording and publishing — via web, podcast, and mobile — the audio stories of the greenest buildings. Revenue supported the Open Green Building Society's Green Building Brain.
2009 – 2021
Mission-driven non-profits founded
Vancouver Design Nerds SocietyCofounder & Director
Award-winning network of designers and artists engaging design opportunities with intense creative play. Started in my living room; spawned chapters in Toronto, Stockholm, Seattle, Portland, NYC, Montreal, and Nanaimo.
2004 – 2018
Open Green Building SocietyCofounder & Director
Enterprising non-profit stewarding the Green Building Brain — an open knowledge resource for energy-efficient building practice.
2008 – 2021
HiVE Vancouver SocietyCofounder & Director
One of Canada's first large-scale social-impact coworking hubs — 12,000 ft² of collaborative workspace for change-makers at 128 West Hastings, Vancouver. Built with volunteer effort, a Vancity grant, and angel investment from Recollective.
2009 – 2016
Psychedelic Data SocietyCofounder & Director
Global harm-reduction initiative managing the Psychedelic Data Project — inviting one million people worldwide to anonymously help build one of the most diverse mental-health and psychedelics datasets in history.
2021 – 2026
Industry consortia co-founded
Zero Emissions Buildings Exchange (ZEBx)Cofounder & Director
Consortium of Open Green Building Society, Passive House Canada, Vancouver Regional Construction Association, and the City of Vancouver — formed to rapidly accelerate knowledge, capacity, and passion for zero-emission buildings.
2017 – 2020
Energy Modelling InstituteCofounder & Director
Educator and advocate for building energy-modelling literacy. Developed curriculum taught at UBC for two years to engineers, architects, real-estate developers, and policy makers, then handed off to other institutions.
2013 – 2015