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Jonathan Lerner - BA, LLB, ASIA, MSust Managment

Founder and Director

Jonathan’s formal background includes strategic consulting, general management, sales, investment banking and law. He has been involved in the growth and strategic diversification of a number of business and not-for-profit groups. Jonathan spent eight years in the finance industry working with UBS, Macquarie Bank and Grange Securities where he was involved with mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions in a range of industries including sustainable, environmental, technology and media companies. He is the founder of three profitable businesses in Australia including ENVY.

Jonathan has worked with a number of Australian companies to develop their strategies for growth, sustainability, driving cost savings through corporate social responsibility, creating corporate-community engagement programs and planning events.

Jonathan is also a joint-founder of the Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce, the founder of a professional & social networking group and has been a Director of the Thermometer Foundation for Social Research on Climate Change as well as Chair of the Corporate Development Committee for Earth Share Australia, a non-profit community foundation committed to building partnerships between business and the community sector. For over ten years, Jonathan has been actively involved with a series of charities, human rights organisations and not-for-profit groups.

Jonathan graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in philosophy, has a law degree from McGill University, is certified by the Canadian Securities Institute, is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia and has a Masters of Sustainable Management (with distinction) from the inaugural class at the University of Sydney.  He is a true believer in "meaningful fun" and tries his very best to put family and friends ahead of everything else!

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ENVY is always looking for credible, like-minded, partners. ENVY can provide you with the platform, networks and support to launch your own business-for-good. So if you have a commercially viable idea that needs help getting off the ground, please contact us to become green with ENVY!


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