Katherine Tokes

With over 25 years’ experience in competitive intelligence, management consulting & entrepreneurship, Ms. Tokes founded Tokes Consulting & Associates to provide competitive intelligence services helping SMEs and start-ups to obtain seed money in their critical stages of development. Mandates included the aerospace, environment, and nuclear energy sectors, to name a few. Prior to this, she held positions at McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young and Bombardier. Ms. Tokes regularly works on international projects, most recently in Africa, and is familiar with the international business environment. She is often invited by the United Nations to events to give presentations on sustainable development linked to the UN-SDGs and on an atmospheric water technology at the UN in New York and she was a member of the Quebec-Canadian delegation at COP24-28. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Ottawa and is certified by the Academy of Competitive Intelligence in Cambridge, Mass.