Innova Cleantech

Meet our team.

Executive Team

Kamelia (Kami) Giles, MBA

Chief Executive Officer

Kami began her 30-year career working for a Canadian- and Swiss-based corporate and investment management firm, where she quickly rose to senior management and oversaw the firm's private and publicly listed energy investment companies with $100+ million AUM...

Matt Desroches, PEng

Chief Operating Officer

Matt began his career working in various trade positions in the energy sector, where he honed his skills in safety, heavy equipment operations, and project management. After a decade spent in field operations, he decided to advance his career by furthering his education. Matt earned his BSc (Honours)...

Darren Tong, CA, CPA, CFA

Chief Financial Officer

Darren is a senior finance and corporate development executive with over 25 years of experience spanning diverse industries including upstream oil and gas, energy infrastructure, eLearning and cleantech, with expertise in M&A, financial modeling, valuations and capital market financings...

Dr. Ehsan Abbasi, PhD, PEng

Chief Technology Officer

Ehsan brings over 14 years of experience in methane pyrolysis, combustion, reaction kinetics, catalysis, carbon material production and analysis, and clean energy systems. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a perfect GPA of 4.0/4.0 from top Canadian university, McGill, where he...

Dr. Elham (Ellie) Kamali, PhD, EIT

Chief Materials Science Officer

Ellie is an accomplished materials scientist with over a decade of experience in application-driven materials synthesis, characterization, and processing. She has led projects across high-impact applications, spanning the design and fabrication of electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage...

Board of Directors

Douglas Beach

Independent Director

Doug is an early-stage investor in dozens of technology ventures, primarily deep climate, health, and AI-augmented industrial technology striving for global reach and "change the world" impact. He has nearly four decades of operating and investing experience that include global operation of...

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Roger Tang

Independent Director

Roger has over 35 years of knowledge in the upstream energy business where he founded four E&P companies and mentored young, gender and age diversified professionals and managers during the process. His last startup, Deltastream Energy Corporation, was backed by two private equity...

Rick Pawluk

Independent Director

Rick is a partner in the Dentons Canada LLP corporate group. He has extensive experience in corporate and securities law including initial public offerings, equity and debt financings, public and private mergers, takeover bids, acquisitions, and disposition transactions and business combinations...

Kamelia (Kami) Giles

Chief Executive Officer and Director

We are scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, passionate about applying our industry expertise and academic knowledge towards an economic climate solution.