Corporate Sustainability and Advisory
Canopy Edge is a global management consulting firm that provides clients with the strategic advice and tools needed to navigate and excel in the Net Zero corporate sustainability journey.
Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable services to assist companies in navigating the complex landscape of corporate sustainability, supporting their efforts to reduce environmental impact and seize the numerous opportunities that arise from responsible business practices.
Canopy Edge strategically focuses on providing services to the following types of companies:
- Companies that are starting their corporate sustainability journey
- Mature companies that are looking for an affordable partner to accelerate their corporate sustainability progress
- Mature companies that need to address their Scope 3 supply chain emissions
- Suppliers that are receiving pressure to set science-based targets and reduce emissions
- Cleantech and software providers that need assistance with go-to-market solutions
Our services include:
- Sustainability Strategy and Advisory
- Materiality Assessments
- Scope 1, and 2 GHG Footprinting
- Scope 3 GHG Footprinting
- Target Setting
- ESG and Sustainability Reports
- Supplier Engagement
- Abatement Planning
- Climate Risk
- Regulatory Compliance
- Disclosures
- Industry Benchmarking
- Surveys and Focus Groups
- Marketing Messaging Strategy and Advisory
- Custom Thought Leadership
- Digital Media Content
- Content Syndication and Lead Generation
What Makes Canopy Edge Unique?
Canopy Edge is known for affordability and access to seasoned consultants. By eliminating the typical overhead and bureaucracy of large consulting firms, we can deliver world-class results to small and medium-sized businesses. Our versatile, experienced team includes consultants who have worked for leading consulting firms or have managed sustainability programs for large corporations.
Our veteran management team has decades of practical management, technology, and sustainability experience. Our team launched the dominant cleantech research and consulting firm, Pike Research, in 2009. We have assisted over 500 companies with journeys toward Net Zero objectives and compliance, with more than 1,200 client engagements successfully completed.
Canopy Edge aims to offer cost-effective solutions to companies of varying sizes, reducing obstacles, and encouraging wider adoption of corporate sustainability standards. In addition to advancing our clients toward a Net Zero landscape, we go one step further by providing go-to-market services that create positive outcomes to customers, employees, investors, and the communities our clients serve.
Leadership Team
Daniel Cardamone, Managing Director
Daniel brings 25 years of experience in consulting and executive leadership. Prior to Canopy Edge, Daniel co-founded the North America Sustainability Consulting Practice for Guidehouse and expanded the group into one of the largest and most successful ESG management consulting practices globally. In a span of 12 years, Daniel was a catalyst for over 1,000 companies executing Net Zero plans. He led groundbreaking initiatives and consortia in multiple segments such agriculture, fashion and apparel, digital and technology, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, infrastructure, food and beverage, logistics and transportation, material handling and packaging, and real estate. One of the most innovative and impactful initiatives Daniel co-founded was The Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition (S-LOCT), which is one of the largest supplier engagement programs in the world, with over 800 companies engaged. He was responsible for building the S-LOCT consortium with companies such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Clorox, Estee Lauder, Heineken, Mars, McDonalds, Neiman Marcus, Nestle, PepsiCo, Puma, Starbucks, and Yum!
Daniel was a technology consulting executive for 13 years prior to Guidehouse, with companies such IDC, Keller Fay, and C Space. During that time, Daniel led annual double-digit growth initiatives with companies such as AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Google, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP. Daniel led global sales and marketing teams, as well as operations at the regional and country level.
Prior to his years in consulting, Daniel spent 7 years representing Toshiba, Electrolux, and Xerox and doing business in 50+ countries. He holds an MBA from Thunderbird – Arizona State University and a BA in International Relations from Saint Joseph’s University.
Jonathan Keller, Managing Director
Jonathan brings over 18 years of executive management and corporate ESG messaging experience in B2B consulting, research, and digital media publishing.
He co-founded Dash Network, an integrated research and digital news media platform in 2021 and joined The Futurum Group through acquisition, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer and worked with the largest technology brands in the world.
Prior, Jonathan spent 10 years with Light Reading, a digital media, research, and events company serving the global telecommunications market, where he was Chief Sales Officer and member of the executive ownership team that sold Light Reading to Informa PLC in 2016. In his time at Informa, Jonathan served as Managing Director of Informa Tech’s Light Reading Network, which included media brands such as Light Reading, Telecoms.com, Connecting Africa, and over a dozen B2B event brands including The Big 5G Event and 2020 Vision Executive Summit.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of Colorado’s School of Journalism and a Recording Engineering Degree from the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences.
Clint Wheelock, Managing Director
Clint brings over 25 years of management consulting and market analysis experience, focused on sustainability, energy, and emerging technology sectors. He was previously the founder and President of Pike Research, a leading market intelligence firm focused on the global cleantech industry, which was acquired by Guidehouse in 2012. Following the acquisition, Clint continued to lead and expand the Guidehouse Insights business as part of the firm’s Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure consulting practice.
He previously founded Tractica, a market analysis firm with a focus on human interaction with technology, including coverage of artificial intelligence, robotics, user interface technologies, and other emerging sectors. Following Tractica’s acquisition by Informa Group, Clint served as Chief Research Officer for Informa’s research division, Omdia, with management and content strategy responsibility for a global team of more than 400 analysts and support staff. Clint was subsequently co-founder and CEO of Dash Network, an integrated research and digital media firm focused on the CX market, which was acquired by The Futurum Group in 2022, after which he served as Chief Research Officer.
Prior to Pike Research, Clint was Chief Research Officer at ABI Research, a New York-based industry analyst firm concentrating on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets. He previously held senior management roles at Circana, RELX Group, Lumen Technologies, and Verizon, in addition to a prior background in management consulting and private investment banking.
Clint holds an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BA from Washington & Lee University.