Amr leads the FCC team dedicated to promoting financial and non-financial solutions that support the implementation of sustainable practices in the Canadian agriculture and food industry. Since 2010, Amr has offered advisory services to financial institutions on developing investing strategies, serving on investor sustainability advisory boards, and working with groups that highlight Montreal as a global hub for sustainable finance. This includes the Finance and Sustainability Initiative, Finance Montreal’s Sustainable Finance Working Group, and the advisory committee for developing a sustainable finance roadmap for Quebec. In 2025, Amr was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of his work in advancing sustainable finance in Canada. Amr has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo.

Diane-Laure Arjaliès is an Associate Professor at Ivey Business School (Western University, Canada) and Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab. Her research focuses on how finance can support regenerative transitions in agriculture, land stewardship, and biodiversity conservation. Working at the intersection of accounting, finance, and sustainability, she designs and studies innovative financial instruments—such as conservation impact bonds and biodiversity credits—that enable long-term investment in regenerative practices. Her work is grounded in close collaboration with farmers, conservation organizations, and Indigenous Nations, and emphasizes co-creation, place-based knowledge, and economic reconciliation. Through her research and teaching, she explores how financial systems can move beyond extractive logics to become enablers of soil health, ecosystem restoration, and resilient rural economies.

Darren brings more than 25 years of diverse global investment experience to FCC, having held a variety of senior executive roles at provincial and federal Crown corporation investment organizations. He started his career as an attorney with Torys LLP after graduating from the University of Manitoba. Prior to joining FCC, Darren was co-founder of a U.S.-based farmland investment firm that acquired operating farmland alongside grower partners, with a business plan of transitioning management practices from conventional to regenerative. Having lived in five Canadian provinces in addition to New York, Darren and his family support a variety of charitable initiatives throughout communities they’ve called home. These include the University of Winnipeg Foundation and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Erin Crampton is a farm kid from Manitoba who somehow turned a lifetime of supporting ecologically minded farmers into becoming a regenerative food systems subject matter expert. She didn’t plan it that way — it just kept getting more interesting. Erin’s work spans the full arc of what it takes to make regional food systems actually work: supply chain building, food processing, agricultural policy, conservation finance, and investment strategy. She has built supply chains, alternative finance products for regenerative farmers, and most recently has been deep in Alberta’s regenerative beef supply chain — learning, alongside producers and processors, what capital solutions the system actually needs before anyone tries to design them. She is a co-architect of Learning From the Land Up, a producer-led investment design process across Western Canada, and a founding partner with TIFS and Sacha Investments Ltd. She still thinks cows are the answer.

Philippe Crête has over 19 years of experience in investment, asset management and project development across forestry, agriculture, renewable energy, and carbon markets. He is Managing Director of Natural Capital and Environmental Markets at Fondaction Asset Management, where he designs investment strategies for institutional and private clients, leads capital raising efforts, and oversees fund performance. He also chairs the boards of the Inlandsis Fund and the Circular Economy Fund. Previously, Philippe spent eight years with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as Regional Coordinator for Africa under the UN-REDD program, supporting over 20 countries in building national carbon markets and investment programs in forestry and agriculture. Before that, he was a Partner and Deputy Director at ÉcoRessources (now Coop Carbone), where he led GHG reduction projects, carbon credit brokerage, and emission reduction strategies for major emitters. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international development and economics, and a master’s degree in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.