Anjali Varma, M.Sc, DIC, President and CEO
Anjali Varma is a co-founder of Sustainable Ventures Inc. Anjali brings more than 15 years of practical experience in promoting sustainability to increase profitability in business. Prior to starting the company, Anjali was involved in placing investments into early stage environmental technology demonstration projects at Sustainable development Technology Canada. During her tenure, she was involved in placing over $100M of funds into more than 50 projects. Her responsibilities included conducting due diligence on 100 deals, building an expert reviewer network and most importantly, performed a preliminary assessment on over 1300 environmental technology companies.
Anjali started her career with Union Gas, an Ontario based natural gas utility, where she was responsible for increasing the utility's profitability in the $400M core customer base. To achieve this end, Anjali was responsible for development and implementation of innovative marketing and sales strategies to promote the safe and efficient use of natural gas. Union Gas was part of the Duke Energy family, and as such, Anjali was involved in several strategic projects in the areas of rates, corporate re-structuring, storage and transmission developments, large power projects, performance management systems and process improvements.
Anjali holds an MSc. (DIC) in Environmental Technologies from Imperial College, University of London. She also obtained a BSc. in Environmental Sciences as a Canada scholar from Carleton University.