dynaCERT Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. James Damien Tansey as a director of the Company. Originally trained in environmental sciences, Dr. Tansey brings 20 years of experience at the interface of university research and the private sector. He also brings to dynaCERT expertise in carbon markets, clean technology, social acceptability of novel technologies, impact investing and social innovation.

Dr. Tansey has also been an advisor and investor in early-stage companies including Gemina Labs, Exro Technologies, Syniad Innovations Inc. and Charitable Impact. He was founder of NatureBank Asset Management and previously CIO of Global Sustainable Capital Management (UK). Dr. Tansey is the CEO and a Director of Carbon Done Right Developments, Vancouver BC.

Dr. Tansey is also currently Associate Professor of the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia where he established the Centre for Social Innovation and Impact Investing. He has served as an advisor to the BC Government on Clean Energy strategy and Social Enterprise and was a committee member for the Federal Social Innovation and Social Finance Advisory Task Force that launched the $755 Million social finance fund. As CEO and Founder of NatureBank Asset Management he established one of the largest carbon market development companies in Canada and helped establish two of the largest forest carbon projects in the world: Great Bear Rainforest and Mai Ndombe in the DRC.

The Company delivered the world?s first carbon neutral Olympics in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. Until 2006, he was Deputy Director and Lecturer at James Martin Institute, Saïd Business School at Oxford. Dr. Tansey was also Senior Research Associate of the University of British Columbia and led projects on scenario modelling, impact of genomics and social determinants of health.

Dr. Tansey holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Risk from the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia; a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia and an International Baccalaureate from Atlantic College.