Janice Tran

Janice is a leader and champion for the clean energy industry across North America, having worked in developing and investing in innovative clean energy projects. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Kanin Energy, a company developing projects that convert industrial waste heat into clean baseload power. Beyond business, Janice lends her expertise to support others. She serves in many trade association groups and Student Energy, where she was an original Co-Founder and a Co-Chair for the 2009 International Student Energy Summit.

Prior to Kanin, Janice was an early employee and Director at Generate Capital, a project finance investment firm that focuses on investing in renewable energy projects. There she built North America’s largest portfolio on anaerobic digestions assets. Her role spanned across deal execution, origination, market development and asset management. Prior to Generate Capital, Janice worked at NRG, one of America’s largest power producers. Janice was integral in the implementation of their renewable microgrids business line.

Janice is a licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada. She also has a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York, where she received an Earth Institute Fellowship. Janice also has a Masters in Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan, and double majored with a BA in Philosophy and BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary