Virginie Chambost, Principal Consultant, EnVertis Inc., Canada.

Virginie is Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at EnVertis Inc, a consulting services company dedicated to assisting the forest, agriculture and allied sectors in identifying successful strategies for improving and/or transforming business models. Virginie obtained her MBA in innovative project management at the University of Lyon in France. She worked at New Zealand’s forest research center, SCION, and then was project director for biorefinery projects in the Chemical Engineering Department at École Polytechnique of the University of Montréal. To date, Virginie has assisted several forest product companies in identifying promising business models. Virginie is an expert in multi-criteria decision support analysis and, as such, has designed and led numerous decision-making panels that bring together technical experts and managers from companies both nationally and internationally.