Making Dollars and Sense out of Food Waste

Mylène Champagne is the Director of Environment and Risks at METRO Inc. since March 2022. In her current role, she concentrates on reducing carbon emissions, addressing food waste, and enhancing material diversion rates. With 13 years of experience in sustainability and dual master’s degrees in sustainable development and management, coupled with a law certificate, she has a broad background in environmental management across consulting, education, telecommunications, and retail sectors.

Sam Kashani is the Country Director of Too Good To Go, the world’s number one app for fighting food waste, and is championing the movement into the Canadian market.
Sam moved to Toronto as a first generation immigrant more than 23 years ago. His first job in Canada was in the foodservice industry where he saw first hand that consumer demand for speed and selection had a devastating by-product of increasing food waste! Since then, his love for food has taken him to more than 20 countries around the world discovering many new cuisines, transforming his relationship with food from “love” to “respect”. Sam is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with a business degree and an MBA in Strategic Management and has held multiple leadership positions in both global and scale up organizations. He was also named Marketing Magazine’s “30 under 30”. He has always focused on balancing performance with purpose and is determined to kick off this movement in Canada and empower Canadians coast to coast to join the fight against food waste.

Michael is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. He has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions with C-level executives and participated on thought leadership panels worldwide.  

Michael is also the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts, including Canada’s top retail industry podcast, The Voice of Retail, plus the Remarkable Retail with author Steve Dennis, Global E-Commerce Tech Talks and The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, all available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and all major podcast platforms.