Ayo Daniel Abiola is the President of Avalanche Nation Services Inc. through which he provides engineering assessments, appraisals and mechanical cost consulting to clients. He started his career in energy resiliency investigating the vulnerabilities and ways to protect solar energy infrastructures from hazardous climate especially high intensity wind forcing. Subsequently, he worked in the built environment as a mechanical cost consultant as well as roles in project management, design of mechanical services, and energy engineering for buildings.

In his work leading the delivery of energy management solutions to lower carbon emission intensity of institutional, commercial, and healthcare buildings across Canada, Ayo focuses on the technological, financial, and lately policy drivers of building sustainability. He explores the question of why sustainable solutions can be attractive to owners and decision makers despite higher capital costs compared to traditional alternatives.

Ayo is a featured contributor on Decarbonization for the Construction Economist, a quarterly publication of the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.

He lives in Regina, with his wife and two sons.

D’Andre was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas before moving to Canada to complete her undergrad in Chemical Engineering at McGill University. D’Andre went on to complete her Master’s Degree in the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. D’Andre spent over 8 years working in the oil sands before pivoting to work in project management and process improvement in the post-secondary and non-profit space.

D’Andre is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in both Alberta and Ontario and also holds a PMP (Project Management Professional) designation. D'Andre considers herself a serial social entrepreneur and is the founder of a non-profit called BrainSTEM Alliance. D’Andre is currently pursuing her PhD through ISTEP (the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice) focused on EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion) in engineering education. Her research aims to better understand how learning experiences impact the various career paths for engineering graduates from underrepresented groups.

D’Andre is also a wife and mother of 3 children and currently serves as the Executive Director of Work Integrated Learning at Calgary Economic Development.

Heather Campbell has had a diverse, three decades long energy career in a full range of energy industries. She is the Executive Director, Clean Technology with Alberta Innovates.

Ms. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering from Western University in addition to a Master of Laws in Energy Law and Policy from the University of Dundee. She is a licensed professional engineer practicing in Alberta, Canada.

Ms. Campbell is an engaged, lifelong community volunteer, actively sharing her talents, resources and time by participating and often leading a purposely diverse range of organizations. Ms. Campbell is a board director with Calgary’s performing arts centre Arts Commons, is a member of the Advisory Council for Western Engineering, and is a Commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission. Ms. Campbell performs two clean technology advisory roles: an advisory council member of the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy and an advisory board member of the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program. She is the former co-chair of Alberta’s Anti-Racism Advisory Council and has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.

Description goIjeoma holds a bachelors (Mechanical) and masters (Environmental) Engineering degrees from Nigeria and an executive MBA from University of Alberta. Ijeoma also hold several industrial and Leadership recognitions and certifications.

An experienced international energy professional, with entire value chain experiences (Exploration, Production, Regulatory, Refining and Transportation), working in the industry in Nigeria, Europe, North America and in multiple positions including Consulting, Engineering, Pipelines, Operations, Projects, Strategy formulation & implementation, Business leadership and Management of Change.

In Canada working for Enbridge Pipelines and Shell Canada Limited, both Federally regulated, Ijeoma have executed projects from Coast to Coast to Coast including Canadian North, working in communities large and small.

Ijeoma is passionate about sustainable energy utilization, the interacting dynamics of energy systems with policies/politics and the corresponding corporate and operational strategy alignment work needed to make them executional, valuable & sustainable.

Ijeoma is also a wife and mother of 5 including two engineers, passionate about human development, working through entropy and continuously diversifying her culinary skill sets.

Tomiwa Olukiyesi has over 30 years of experience in Engineering that cuts across various industries. She started her career in manufacturing as a pioneer with Procter and Gamble (Nigeria) Limited where she helped with the first factory built in Nigeria. She spent nine years with the company before she migrated to Canada.

In Canada Tomiwa had worked with Mother Parkers Tea and Coffee, DaimlerChrysler before joining 3M Canada, her current employer. At 3M Canada, she worked in various capacities such as manufacturing Engineer, supply chain leader, outsource manufacturing Leader and as the Facilities Manager.

Tomiwa obtained her master’s degree in Advanced Design, Manufacturing and Business from the University of Toronto.

She is a licensed member of PEO where she served on the Council between 2017 and 2020 as a Lieutenant-Governor-appointed councillor. In 2019-2020 she became the Vice President appointed for PEO in 2019-2020. Prior to being appointed by her peers to serve on Council. SHe has been volunteering with PEO at various capacities till date.

In 2020 along with four others licensed engineers they founded the Black Engineers of Canada where she is the current President. She is married, blessed with two loving young Adults in STEM. Her one son is an engineering graduate while the other is still an undergrad.

Tomiwa Olukiyesi P.Eng FEC., is the President and Chair of the Black Engineers of Canada.