Background
Holloway has founded, managed or directed several Toronto environmental startups and non-profit associations. She is on the Steering Committee of Green Enterprise Toronto and is a founding member of the Toronto Women's Environmental Alliance. In 2005 she was a co-founder of renewable energy firm Village Technologies. More recently she was employed by Toronto energy management firm Mann Engineering as Director of Business Development. In May, 2007, she left Mann Engineering to be CFO, and ultimately President and CEO, of Carbonzero.
Prior to her private and public sector work in energy conservation, she held senior executive and consulting positions in both the high-tech and advertising worlds, as a director for Boston-based CMGI, and a Vice-President at MBS Ltd. of the Grey Global Group. From 1994 to 1996 she was featured on The Discovery Channel as an Internet journalist on the segment "Kate's Page", which she wrote and performed.
In 2003 she was a regular columnist for Relix Magazine, writing about music and culture. In 2004, she was a regular contributor to Building and Construction Trades Today, and contributed features on architectural conversions of Toronto heritage buildings.
She is the sister of comedienne and radio personality Maureen Holloway, and the first cousin of Irish Zapatista economist John Holloway. She holds two degrees from the University of Toronto, one in Celtic Studies and the other, an MBA in Finance from the Rotman School of Management.
She is mother to Samuel Wright, born November 22, 1990.
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