Sandra Odendahl is a Partner with Catalyst Climate Capital, a $150 million investment fund providing financing and advice to mid-sized Canadian companies to help accelerate their investment in clean energy, decarbonization, and net‑zero technologies.    

Ms. Odendahl’s career in corporate sustainability and sustainable finance has spanned more than 25 years, largely in the finance sector, leading enterprise-wide sustainability, environmental and social risk management and social finance programs at RBC, Scotiabank and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) . In the early part of her career, Ms. Odendahl worked in the natural resources sector, specializing in environmental and social impact assessments. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Odendahl was President and CEO of Carbon Management Canada, a Calgary-based environmental company helping develop and scale up innovative carbon capture and storage technologies and strategies.

In addition to serving as a Board Director, Audit Committee Chair and Treasurer of the Canadian Climate Institute, Ms. Odendahl currently serves on the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board (CSSB), and is a board director of the Transition Accelerator and Impact United.  Ms. Odendahl’s community contributions have been recognized with awards from Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, Professional Engineers Ontario and Engineers Canada.  

Ms. Odendahl has a Master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto. She is a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder.  She is also a Fellow of Engineers Canada.