Jake Malthouse · Vancouver Island, BC
About
Jake Malthouse is a founder, executive, and UBC Certified Organizational Coach with 25 years of experience building global institutions and technology companies at the intersection of sustainability, finance, and technology — and coaching the leaders doing the same today.
At the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, Jake was one of the founding architects of the Principles for Responsible Investment. Working directly with figures including Kofi Annan, he helped design and launch a framework that mobilised some of the world's largest investors — among them the Norway Petroleum Fund, CalPERS, and the Universities Superannuation Scheme — and is now signed by institutions managing over $139 trillion in assets. The materiality report his team produced is widely credited with coining the term "ESG."
Jake has also co-founded and built technology ventures from zero. He co-founded .eco, the internet domain for environmental organisations and businesses, negotiating the original registry agreement with ICANN across 28 countries, securing backing from WWF and Greenpeace, and building it to profitability in under 12 months. The domain now serves over 9,000 organisations in 160 countries. He co-founded Foresight, a Canadian cleantech innovation accelerator, and co-founded and led the Save Dot Org campaign — a global coalition that successfully blocked the sale of the .org domain to private equity, earning coverage in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, and the CBC.
The through-line is consistent: building things that hold their values inside systems that don't naturally reward it. As an advisor and coach, Jake now works with founders facing that same challenge — bringing the pattern recognition of someone who has done it at scale, and the discipline to stay in service of the founder's own thinking rather than just the next answer.