Since joining Shopify in January 2020 as Head of Sustainability, Stacy Kauk works to ensure the millions of businesses using Shopify’s platform, approximately 600 million shoppers, and climate entrepreneurs globally are working together in the fight against climate change.

Stacy leads Shopify’s Sustainability Fund, which has committed more than $32 million since 2019 across 22 entrepreneurial, tech-driven companies to accelerate carbon removal solutions globally. Most recently, she was behind Shopify’s initiative to build and launch Frontier, an advance market commitment (AMC) to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal alongside our partners, Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, and McKinsey Sustainability. Prior to joining Shopify, Stacy was head of the Ozone Layer Protection Program at Environment and Climate Change Canada and represented Canada as a member of delegations for the Stockholm Convention and Montreal Protocol. She also serves on the advisory board of the Carbon Management Research Initiative (CaMRI) at Columbia University. In her early career, she worked as an engineer for environmental protection and anti-pollution control for for clients such as the City of Ottawa, Morrison Hershfield, and Golder Associates.

Stacy holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Masters in Public Administration from Carleton University.