Tom Horton started Canopy in 2004 and brings more than 20 years of development and project finance experience to Canopy Development. For the ten years prior to founding Canopy, Tom served as US Managing Director of The Trust for Sustainable Development and the VP of Corporate Development of the Loreto Bay Company. Tom also served as the first Sustainability Officer for Loreto Bay, helping establish the Loreto Bay Foundation and drafting the aggressive sustainability standards for that project. Tom also founded Sustainable Resources Incorporated in 1998 to provide project development services to the clean technology and sustainable energy industries. SRI is involved in developing wind energy projects in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. Prior to his work for the Trust and Loreto Bay, Tom worked for the Rodale Institute, serving a Program Director for Enterprise Development and creating the Consultative Group for Regenerative Enterprise that provided resources to organizations engaged in sustainable development. Tom lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife Sarah and their three children. |
Sam joined Canopy Development in 2010, becoming President in 2011. Through his companies Spencer Development and Spencer Monks Development, and as Vice President of Harper's Development, he has focused on redeveloping large former manufacturing and mill properties, and downtown properties, often utilizing public-private partnerships. He has also been involved with several energy projects. He previously served four years on the White House staff, helping oversee President Bill Clinton's political appointments in the government and as Special Assistant to Vice President Al Gore. He has been Maine's elected representative to the Democratic National Committee since 2004. He is also the immediate past President of the Portland (Maine) Development Corporation, the city's loan and economic development authority, and Board President of Opportunity Maine, an education, energy, and economic development policy non-profit. Spencer is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Business School. |
