Andrew Phillips: As Business Technology Manager, Andrew is responsible for delivery of technology services to our clients and business technology management within Natural Capital Resources Inc. itself. A graduate of Sydenham High School (with a side trip to Napanee District Secondary School’s digital media program, and the New Media and Animation program at Loyalist College (Belleville), Andrew is responsible for our web presence as well as providing web advisory services, rendering in 3-D (ask to see his work on landscape mapping of economic data), and directs our video programming – shooting, converting, editing, titles, and even laying in original soundtracks when needed. His technology skills have also been put to work directly for NCR Inc. as co-leader of our company’s rebranding early in 2010. When he’s not at his computer keyboard, Andrew is a percussionist/vocalist for a local rock band, Mandown. Don’t let him fool ya — he’s no stranger to a guitar either!

Jacob Phillips: Going into his last year of Business at Brock University, Jacob is the maestro of our stats and spreadsheets. He provides data research, compilation  and analysis services, is working on economic impact models for emerging sectors like alternative/renewable energy, develops SurveyMonkey tools to gather current information on business conditions, and is co-authoring an NCR white paper on the New Normal. Like Andrew, Jacob is interested in green building and alternative/renewable energy. Watch for him on a soccer pitch near you!

Colin Phillips: Here at NCR Inc. Colin works on the business renovation/maintenance and agricultural development portion of the company. This covers many areas of the business, but mostly pertains to our interest and progression in the agricultural and self-sustainability sectors of the green world. He is currently managing a project, proposed to him by President and CEO, Kathryn Wood, where they are working to turn Natural Capital Resources’ 10-acre property into a sustainable farm that operates using food harvests, biomass and green energy produced strictly on site. In his free time he is a health and fitness enthusiast, three-time Golf Club Champion, and is also involved in a personal training program designed to promote his athletic lifestyle. From work on the environmental, agricultural and aesthetic landscape of the business, to construction and renovation projects within NCR itself, he is utilizing a “green” way of thinking to transform NCR Inc. into a business that has the future in mind.

Kathryn  Wood: For more than twenty years, Kathryn has applied her strategic thinking, analytical capacity, and ability to distil complex issues to help clients address organizational challenges and opportunities. With two degrees from Queen’s University (a B.A Hons. in Economics – 1977 and a B.Sc. Hons. in Environmental Science – 1996), Kathryn has a strong understanding of the relationship between an organization’s oenvironmental and economic sustainability.She is currently applying that understanding to helping clients transform their organizations through strategic planning and policy, opportunity analysis, feasibility studies, business plans, implementation planning and transformational support.

Early in her career, Kathryn conducted research and stakeholder consultation on environmental issues ranging from municipal water quality and solid waste management to electricity co-generation in manufacturing settings. In the mid-1990s, she edited parts of the Energy and Water Efficiency Resource Manual for the federal Greening Government Operations program and was a co-developer of AquaAudit, a user-friendly water conservation software package for ICI facility managers developed under the auspices of the Ontario Ministry of Energy. In this case, Kathryn developed case study materials, test data and help functions as well as preparing training materials (hard copy and electronic) and presenting the software in computer-based demonstration/training settings.

Most of Kathryn’s consulting practice focuses on the environment, economic development, and education. In the last several years, she has led a number of projects related to rural economic development, including the 2005 Eastern Ontario Opportunity Action Plan, a variety of initiative related to the bio-based economy in Eastern Ontario, and a specific assignment on behalf of five rural Ontario regions in connection with the World Congress on Industrial Bioprocessing and Biotechnology (July 2006). In 2007, she continued to work on these issues through contractual relationships with the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus and the 15 CFDCs of Eastern Ontario as well as with organizations such as Queen’s University and ELORIN (the Eastern Lake Ontario Regional Innovation Network)

These days, typical assignments are technology identification and assessment for organizations seeking competitive advantage from the introduction of green technologies, identification and formulation of strategies to capture opportunity in value-added aspects of natural resource industries, and development of business cases, feasibility studies, and economic impact studies to help clients assess make decisions about environmentally-focused opportunities. Recently, Kathryn has supplied analytical services to federal departments on Rural Development Programs, including a literature review, preliminary data analysis, program design options analysis, and formulation of recommendations on program models.

Throughout her career, Kathryn has managed more than 100 research projects, including literature reviews and secondary data analysis, executive interviews, one-on-one interviews, telephone and intercept surveys, and online surveys. She is a past member of the Professional Marketing Research Society (PMRS) and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Currently, she is a member of the Canadian Green Building Council and the Kingston Technology Association.

Kathryn’s client base has included a wide range of public and private sector clients, with many clustered in the scientific and research communities: Alcan International (Research and Development) and Alcan Rolled Products Company, Alupower (a forerunner to Fuel Cell Technologies Inc.), BIOCAP Canada Foundation, Biotech Kingston/ Eastern Ontario Regional Innovation Network, Canadian Microelectronics Corporation, Industry Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Council of Ontario Universities, Queen’s University, and the Urban Transportation Development Corporation (R&D and manufacturing). Her clients include St. Lawrence College (all three campuses), the City of Kingston, the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston, the City of Windsor, the Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, and the Quinte region, the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus, the 15 Eastern Ontario CFDCs, and the Independent Order of Foresters (international headquarters).

As well as serving as President and CEO of her own firm, Kathryn is a Director of 8020 Info Inc., a Kingston-based company advising small business on management functions such as strategic planning, marketing and research, human resources, and finance. She is a former lecturer at St. Lawrence College in Kingston and has provided guest lectures in the Queen’s University School of Business. Active in the community, Kathryn has been involved at the executive level in Junior Achievement, University Council and the Board of Trustees of Queen’s University, the Queen’s University Alumni Association (as National President), and the Sunnyside Children’s Foundation. She also served on the Steering Committee for a Community Futures Development Corporation for Frontenac County.

Share: