Don Roberts

Vice Chairman, Renewable Energy and Clean Technology
CIBC World Markets Inc.
Panelist: Financing Innovation

As Vice Chairman, renewable energy and clean technology, Don Roberts' role is to integrate the bank's expanding efforts in investment banking, lending and trading to provide capital and advice to companies within these high-growth sectors.

Mr. Roberts joined CIBC in 1995 as a research analyst. Prior to that, he worked in the forestry sector, including four years as Chief Economist for the Canadian Forest Service. He holds an M.B.A. (Hon), in Finance, from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Forestry Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.Sc. (Hon) in Resource Economics from the University of British Columbia.