Aedi Group Team
Georges Dyer
For over ten years, Georges Dyer has been engaged in solutions-based, business-driven, and whole-system approaches to sustainable development. For two years Mr. Dyer was the Head of Market Intelligence for the Institutional Equities Group at LaBranche Financial Services in New York. Prior to Wall Street, he was engaged with private equity deals working with eco-efficiency start-up companies and on residential and commercial real estate projects. He is a founder of Greenland Enterprises, a consultancy specializing in strategic leadership towards sustainability for accelerating the role businesses and other organizations play in sustainable development.
Mr. Dyer is also a Senior Fellow at Second Nature, where he has been developing the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment – a program of over 560 college and university presidents, representing over 4.7 million students, committing their institutions to pursuing climate neutrality. He is a Trustee of Stratleade Sustainability Education, and serves on the Advisory Board for Greenopolis. He holds a Master of Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a B.A. in History and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. He is a member of SoL, The Society for Organizational Learning, participating in the SoL Sustainability Consortium's Carbon Reductions working group.
Archie Kasnet
Archie has 12 years experience in the real estate business as a contractor, entrepreneur, and research analyst. Having gained valuable experience as a building contractor, Archie co-founded Building Extranet in 2000, an online application to service the commercial real estate sector by streamlining the broker/owner/lender process. In 2004, while receiving his Masters’s in Strategic Leadership for Sustainability, he worked closely with Intrawest Corporation's commercial real estate development business and proposed strategic solutions to embed sustainability into their core operations through executive and employee engagement. Following his studies, Archie wrote a position paper on U.S. domestic energy security for Senator Joeseph Biden's presidential platform and was a contributing author to the paper titled “Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy” published through Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment. Most recently, he is consulting with Raymond Property Company on sustainable design criteria for a large commercial tower to be built in downtown Boston.
Archie created an independent study major around Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies with a concentration on sustainable development while attending Gettysburg College. He has lived abroad, published papers, and is dedicated to sharing the framework of strategic sustainable development.
Norman Beaulieu
Norman Beaulieu has been involved with early stage technology companies for the last 16 years as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor. He has devoted much time to thinking about the intersection of business and non-profit initiatives. In 1994 Norman put into practice some of his thoughts by co-founding NetBenefit, a web marketplace for books, music and videos where buyers could choose a charity to which profits would be donated. This concept was later surpassed by the Amazon.com wave, but many lessons were garnered from the experience.
Norman transferred those lessons into the Co-Profit business model – whereby business and non-profit are tightly interwoven in a mutually beneficial and sustainable manner. To put this model into practice, Norman founded Aedi Group as a sustainability-driven investment firm. And, as Aedi Group’s non-profit partner, he founded Village Corps as a systemic approach to help the most impoverished help themselves.