ABOUT US

OUR HISTORY

Our chapter, under the name Southern Ontario Chapter (AEESOC) received its charter in 1999, becoming the first in Canada. From its modest beginnings, the chapter has continued to grow and develop to meet the needs of the energy engineering community.

In 2020, the chapter re-branded to the Greater Toronto Area Chapter (AEEGTA) to better reflect the area we cover for our energy efficiency, conservation and sustainability events, which typically include professionals from the Toronto area.

Our regular events, occurring six times per year, cover topics in the energy efficiency, conservation and sustainability industries. We are recognized by the Engineering Institute of Canada as professional education, enabling you to earn Professional Development Hours (PDH’s) to maintain your professional certifications!


OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBERS

Nasreddine Guerfala, President

Nasreddine Guerfala is a professional engineer with twelve years of experience in the energy efficiency and sustainability field in Quebec and Ontario. He has worked as a project manager for a heating control company, as a senior consultant for an energy efficiency consulting company and as a director, Energy for a district energy company in Toronto. Currently, Nasreddine is a Vice President Solutions for SunGrid advancing growth initiatives.

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Mo Ayoub, Vice President

Mouwafak Ayoub (Mo) is a professional engineer specialized in assisting clients to obtain Climate Change & Sustainability and Energy Performance Optimization by strategic planning and providing an innovative and comprehensive oversight of the new developments and renovated transformations. With more than 20 years of experience, Mo’s strengths are in Smart Buildings & HVAC. He currently works as Sr. Manager of Energy & Sustainability at CIBC. Mo Joined AEEGTA in 2021 as a Blog volunteer, and became a Director of Membership in 2022.

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Mary-Lynne Marino, Treasurer

Mary-Lynne has over 20 years of experience in energy management including monitoring & verification in the commercial, industrial and institution sector. Mary-Lynne is currently the Energy Utility and Energy Governance Manager at BGIS O&M Solutions where she is responsible for the energy governance and overall performance for one of BGIS's key accounts. Mary-Lynne has been a serving member of the board, organizing chapter events since joining the chapter in 2015.

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Amal Jina, Director of Membership

Amal is a Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager who has her B.Eng. from UofW and UofT, and her M.Eng from UofT, where she is certified in Energy Studies. She worked in the Aerospace sector until 2011, then transitioned into Energy Management, currently at Walmart Canada as their National Energy Manager. She has a diverse skill set in the Aerospace and Energy management sectors, enhanced with an innovative drive, leadership, communicative skills, and spirit of volunteerism. She brings about innovative solutions to Energy Management to optimize and reduce energy use and employs renewables aiming to attain Net Zero by 2040.

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Leila Sepahi, Director of Digital Marketing

Leila has managed the chapter’s communications since 2015 and is responsible for the social media channels. Leila is currently a Consultant at Resource Innovations. Leila previously worked for Distribution companies such as Toronto Hydro and Alectra.

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Steve Mooney, Director of Events

Steve is a professional engineer with over 20 years of diverse management and technical experience in cleantech and energy. Steve’s experience includes business management and development, program management, as well as team development. He has experience in hydrogen technology development as well as designing and delivering conservation and demand management programs for utilities, commercial, institutional and industrial clients. Steve is currently a Senior Program Manager at CLEAResult supporting business development as well program management.

Muhammad Ali Khan, Secretary

Muhammad is a Professional Engineer who has his B.Eng from TMU or previously known as Ryerson University. His experience varies from real estate services to program, project management and data consultancy. Muhammad currently works at CIBC as a Consultant in Asset Management and Capital planning where he utilizes his diverse skill set in Engineering, Data analytics, Retail Financials and Leadership.

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Katrina Stirling, Director of Sponsorship

Katrina Stirling is an engineering consultant specialized in sustainability and energy analytics in the commercial real estate industry. She currently works as a Senior Consultant at Brightly Software.

Christine Frost, Director of Strategy

Christine Frost is a General Manager at Dynergy. Started her journey as an Energy Analyst, Christine has been in love with energy efficiency in commercial building for over a decade.
As a General Manager, Christine overseas Dynergy’s business operations including end-to-end management of the business cycle and the overall growth. One of her main focus is to surround herself with highly intelligent teams, who shares her passion for energy and sustainability. She lead Dynergy with strong leadership, which ensure the positive culture and environment for Dynergy team to learn, grow, achieve their goal. Her strategic mindset, continuous development, along with putting client-focused mindset, help led the Dynergy’s success today.
Although Christine works in GTA, her home is in Prince Edward County, where she can enjoy her morning coffee surrounded by nature, while being loved by her husband and her dog Princess Leia.

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ALUMNI

Jon Feldman, Past President

Jon served on the AEEGTA (formerly AEESOC) executive team from 2014 to 2020. Jon Feldman is the Engineering Lead, Industrial for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), where he is responsible for the technical aspects of the IESO's province wide energy conservation industrial programs.

Darren Cooper, Past President

Darren severed AEEGTA executive team from 2020 to 2022, he initially volunteered to lead our corporate sponsorship campaign in 2015 and he became President Elect as of Jan 2017. Darren is President of Renteknik Group Inc, an Energy Engineering Consultancy based in Burlington.


YEAR IN REVIEW

Explore our annual accomplishments in our Year in Review slideshow.


CHAPTER AWARDS

We are delighted and proud to announce that AEEGTA was recognized for the ‘Best International Chapter Website in 2020’.

Thank you to AEE for this recognition and thank to both Leila Sepahi and Greg Young for their effort that resulted in this great achievement.