Tom Rand's ambition is to help bring clean technology to life. A global thought leader with a recognized record of extraordinary achievement in the promotion of a low carbon economy, Rand is a green entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and author. Rand challenges his audiences to recognize that there are concrete solutions to the climate change crisis, and he is widely sought after for his ability to take enormously complicated issues and reformulate them in ways that engage his listeners. Currently, Rand is the Cleantech Lead Advisor at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, where he helps the next generation of cleantech companies grow to global leadership. As well, he is the founder and director of Voice Courier Incorporated Green Funds, a seed and venture capital fund in the low- carbon sector; the managing director of the newly established MaRS Cleantech Fund; the co-developer of Planet Traveler, the "greenest hotel in North America;" and he sits on the Board of Directors of a number of cleantech companies and NGO's. He is also the author of Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World, and has published numerous articles that have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, Clean Energy North America, and The Mark News, to name a few. In 2008, Rand was awarded an Action Canada Fellowship, and was project manager of the influential Green Bonds public policy team.

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