Barnabe Geis
Chief ExecutiveBarnabe Geis joined ICFC as CEO in May 2024. Previously, with over a decade in the social innovation and impact startup spaces (with 550+ accelerated ventures), he was the Senior Director of Market Transformation at Foresight Canada, the country’s largest cleantech accelerator, and Senior Director of Cleantech at SI Canada, a social innovation lab and network working to address complex social and environmental challenges.
Before that, Barnabe was the Executive Director of Climate Ventures, and its founder as a staff member of the Centre for Social Innovation. Climate Ventures fast-tracked the success of 133 pre-seed startups developing and implementing solutions to the climate crisis that earned & raised over $169.1M between September 2018 and August 2022. He merged Climate Ventures into a partnership between Foresight Canada and SI Canada.
As the Director of Programs at the Centre for Social Innovation, he created and ran more than a half-dozen programs to grow startups and organizations with a social and/or environmental purpose.
He has extensive international experience especially throughout the Middle East, and holds a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.