Raylene Whitford is a Cree-Métis finance professional with a well-established career in the international finance and energy sector. She is the founder of Canative Energy, a social enterprise which supports the economic development of Indigenous communities impacted by the energy sector in Canada and Ecuador.

Her previous leadership positions include being an Executive Director for a company listed on the London Stock Exchange and directing a USD 42 billion capital efficiency project for a national oil company in the Middle East. In 2014, Raylene took a sabbatical from her corporate career with KPMG to return to Canada for a winter to roughneck on a triple-pad drilling rig in order to gain experience in the field.

She currently is a member of the deputy Prime Minister's Women's Task Force for Economic Recovery and a member of the Indigenous Working Group for International Trade with Global Affairs Canada. She is also on the Board of the Clean Resource Innovation Network.

Raylene is a Chartered Accountant, has an MBA in Oil and Gas Management from Aberdeen Business School (Scotland) and is currently completing a PhD in Indigenous Studies and Business at the University of Alberta.

You can follow her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/raylene-whitford and on Twitter: @CanativeEnergy.

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Website: www.daniandmadi.com

Instagram: @daniandmadi

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