Changing how the future does energy.
From renewable energy development, to power distribution, to capturing clean energy for big data needs – it’s time to do things differently.
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Building an iconic energy brand a few megawatts at a time through the development of grid-independent, clean energy corridors for commercial and retail consumer applications.
We are developing grid-independent renewable energy at locations across Canada and the United States. Our objective is to service on-the-go travellers and commercial users. We are developing two types of locations referred to as ‘ION-Go’ and ‘ION-Get’.
ION-Go will be developed as fast EV charging stations conveniently located for customers. ION-Get will be developed for bulk commercial users and will include options to source various clean energy charging solutions.
ION’s development platform will be an important part of the clean energy future and a brand of choice respected by consumers.
As we build ION’s network we are:
- Holding sustainability at the forefront of decision making
- Building a network of clean, grid-independent, EV fast charging stations
- Providing commercial charging customers with green energy solutions
- Producing renewable energy for proprietary data processing needs
- Creating value by being an agile green energy resource company
Team
Our team is comprised of energy, technology, and infrastructure development professionals who are passionate about a clean energy future.
Management Team
A passionate visionary and with a mindset for growth, Mr. Allen founded Evolve Surface Strategies Inc (Evolve) in 2007 and grew it to a successful right-of-way management firm with over 100 team members operating in Canada and the USA. As a strong business leader and firm believer in ION’s purpose, Brodie is instrumental in driving ION’s corporate execution strategy.
With fourteen years acting as Evolve’s President, Brodie has developed a keen understanding of how to integrate industries and balance complex interest groups. Brodie has built a multidisciplined team to navigate projects working in multiple industries across 15 provinces/states, and established 7 regional offices with 16 service locations across North America. Completing 5 successful mergers and acquisitions, and negotiating two key strategic partnerships during Evolve’s growth, Brodie has a proven track record of executing mandates and achieving set goals.
In 2019 and 2020 alone, Brodie’s team secured land and regulatory needs on 11 major renewables projects in 8 different states, providing line of sight for Evolve clients to execute on building 2.8 GW of renewable power generation. Couple this with the execution of 78 municipal projects in that same period, and the experience becomes a direct asset to ION.
Understanding the critical importance of building a talented and loyal team to make vision a reality, Brodie is incredibly focused on company culture and living the defined corporate ‘why.’ It is his mission to keep the team focused on ION’s ‘why’ so that it is top of mind now, and long into the future.
A career entrepreneur for 35 years, Mr. Bergen has founded and developed greenfield energy & resource projects ranging from $10M to $1B. His success in project development comes from understanding and executing the value chain.
Tim has a long history of propelling projects to success with his eye for disrupting the status quo. His early vision founded and assembled an 800 MW wind energy resource pipeline in Southern Alberta. His concept to build out silica sand projects in Canada has led to the combined largest silica resource in North America. As ION’s CEO, Tim’s disruptive vision will change how the future does energy.
Mr. Smith was previously the CFO of a publicly traded industrial company where he completed multiple equity financings, executed on M&A transactions, and developed major industrial projects. He also has experience working for a Global Investment Bank where he raised over $5 billion in capital and executed on over $12 billion in M&A transactions for clients in the Energy Sector.
He began his career working as a Drilling Engineer for a multinational Oil and Gas company in charge of executing on large scale drilling and completion projects.
Mr. Mathias has over 20 years of experience in conventional and renewable energy development. After a conscious decision to transition from the upstream oil and gas sector to renewables, he is based in Berlin, Germany – a leading hub of the global energy transition.
His activities have focused on the development of Megawatt scale renewables and green hydrogen for mobility, to industrial scale eFuel projects for export. At ION, he develops innovative business cases for the utilization of renewable electricity, to power and produce sustainable products and commodities beyond EV charging.
Mr. Tourigny is a clean energy and technology professional with extensive experience in the planning, design, financing, and construction of renewable energy projects. Ryan has led the development of over $3B in wind and solar assets globally and is responsible for driving ION’s aggressive North American development plans.
From countless boardroom tables to kitchen tables across Canada, Mr. Clark has negotiated access to land, including some of the largest Oil and Gas projects in our nation's history. As ION's Senior Vice President, Scott is expertly driving the company’s land vision and strategy in Canada and the USA.
As chief implementer on energy projects ranging in value from $1M to $1.5B, Ms. Kenney is a valued strategic partner. With nearly two decades of success in project management, she has been instrumental in executing over five major oil and gas projects and dozens of mid-sized projects in energy, utilities, and technology. Most recently she played a key role in the AUC transmission rate relief project for seasonal load customers in Alberta. Colette is masterful at translating strategy into actionable goals for performance and growth. She achieves game changing results from the teams she leads by setting clear objectives and measuring key results.
A professional engineer with a master’s in psychology, Colette connects easily with all levels of an organization. She is a culture creator with a proven track record of strengthening cross-functional collaboration. As a fearless negotiator and leader by example, time has a way of bending in support of her implementation efforts.
Colette is the right hand to both ION’s CEO and President. She is a trusted partner charged with the oversight of critical projects and making the company’s big ideas happen. With a solid footing in agile development, she is supercharging ION’s implementation plan and development schedule.
Mr. Fournier has over 25 years of experience helping companies with their information technology needs, bringing unique technical experience to the ION team.
As co-founder of GPS Police Inc. Sean built on-premise data centres connected to thousands of remote GPS tracking devices streaming back location data. He was involved hands-on with every aspect of the business, although his primary area of focus was in the realm of hardware and operations.
Sean is a leader in designing GPS based hardware systems. During the discovery of emerging use cases of bleeding edge GPS technology he received SRED credits, pushed the technology forward, and made a positive impact across hundreds of commercial fleets and businesses.
Other development projects and interests include bitcoin mining, healthcare apps, a podcasting platform, and crowd funding financial services – all fun and rewarding endeavors.
Sean believes the future is bright. He is excited to lead the development of the technical infrastructure required to support ION’s sustainable energy generation and storage systems.
Board of Directors
A passionate visionary and with a mindset for growth, Mr. Allen founded Evolve Surface Strategies Inc (Evolve) in 2007 and grew it to a successful right-of-way management firm with over 100 team members operating in Canada and the USA. As a strong business leader and firm believer in ION’s purpose, Brodie is instrumental in driving ION’s corporate execution strategy.
With fourteen years acting as Evolve’s President, Brodie has developed a keen understanding of how to integrate industries and balance complex interest groups. Brodie has built a multidisciplined team to navigate projects working in multiple industries across 15 provinces/states, and established 7 regional offices with 16 service locations across North America. Completing 5 successful mergers and acquisitions, and negotiating two key strategic partnerships during Evolve’s growth, Brodie has a proven track record of executing mandates and achieving set goals.
In 2019 and 2020 alone, Brodie’s team secured land and regulatory needs on 11 major renewables projects in 8 different states, providing line of sight for Evolve clients to execute on building 2.8 GW of renewable power generation. Couple this with the execution of 78 municipal projects in that same period, and the experience becomes a direct asset to ION.
Understanding the critical importance of building a talented and loyal team to make vision a reality, Brodie is incredibly focused on company culture and living the defined corporate ‘why.’ It is his mission to keep the team focused on ION’s ‘why’ so that it is top of mind now, and long into the future.
A career entrepreneur for 35 years, Mr. Bergen has founded and developed greenfield energy & resource projects ranging from $10M to $1B. His success in project development comes from understanding and executing the value chain.
Tim has a long history of propelling projects to success with his eye for disrupting the status quo. His early vision founded and assembled an 800 MW wind energy resource pipeline in Southern Alberta. His concept to build out silica sand projects in Canada has led to the combined largest silica resource in North America. As ION’s CEO, Tim’s disruptive vision will change how the future does energy.
Tiro is lawyer in Calgary, called to the Bar in 1996. His current practice is primarily in corporate and commercial law, founded on many prior years of litigation experience at all levels of court in Alberta.
Before becoming a lawyer, he was a mineral exploration geologist, working on precious and base metal projects in western North America. Tito was a founder of Cascade Metals Inc., a precious metals exploration company which completed an initial public offering and was subsequently subsumed into a larger public corporation.
In 2022, Tito was honoured with a Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) designation from the Alberta Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, in recognition of his service and contributions to Albertans, the legal community, and the administration of justice.
Karen’s 20-year career began as an articling student at Collins Barrow, earning a Chartered Accountant designation in 2006.
During her tenure at Collins Barrow, she was responsible for a wide range of audit engagements and special audit work.Karen was promoted to manager in the audit group and managed audit engagements from start to finish, including private and public companies. Because Karen was looking to develop deeper relationships with business owners, she then joined Stawowski McGill in 2011 and became partner in 2018.
Karen believes that strong financial leadership is a key driver of business growth and profitability. Through raising capital for clients and advising on mergers and acquisitions, she have surrounded herself with a diverse base of high-powered colleagues. Karen takes great joy in making appropriate introductions and supporting business owners on their journey.
Bill is the President of Sierra Geological Corp, an international mineral exploration company, and 1824455 Alberta Ltd, a royalty and investment company. He is also a founding shareholder of Rio Alto Mining Ltd. that was sold to Tahoe Resources Inc. for $1.2 billion CAD in 2015. As well, he is a founding shareholder and director at both ION Charge Corp. Inc. and Critical Path Minerals.
Bill has been fortunate to lead an exciting and fulfilling career in geological exploration. He was director of Canamera Geoscience Corp which discovered Canada’s Gaucho Kue diamond deposit, recently estimated to be one of the world’s 10 largest diamond mines (currently producing ~6M carats/year). He was director of Dia Met Diamonds, the discoverer and original owner of the Ekati Diamond deposit, Canada's first commercial diamond mine. As a result of his research on diamond deposits, the University of British Colombia’s Diamond Exploration Lab was formed.
Outside of work his passion is collecting, tinkering with, and riding motorcycles. He lives for the feeling of riding out on the open roads in North America and Europe.