Simon Hutton, CAIA, MCom
National Sustainability Leader
Executive summary
Simon Hutton is BDO Canada’s National Sustainability Leader and a Director at BDO’s Vancouver office, with over 15 years of professional experience providing strategic, investment, and sustainability advisory services to senior executives across a variety of sectors.
His sustainability experience extends over growth strategy analysis, business planning, modelling competitive differentiators, and corporate communications.
Simon’s recent work experience also includes conducting commercial due diligence for private equity firms; delivering growth and sustainability strategies for mid-market companies in the manufacturing, energy, and aviation sectors; and conducting research and analysis for a leading provincial recycling organization.
Simon has contributed to the following thought leadership publications:
- BDO Webinar-After S211: What’s Next for Supply Chain Due Diligence?
- Complying with a Time-Sensitive Canadian Supply Chain Act
- How CFOs can create value through ESG
- Five benefits of environmentally-friendly business practices
- The advantages of lowering your energy use
- Why carbon offsets make business sense
Professional affiliations
Member, Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts Association (CAIA)Professional designations and education
Certified Organizational Coach, Organizational Coaching Program - The University of British ColumbiaMCOM, Development Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
BCOM, Finance & International Business, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management