Mark Van Clieaf

Mark Van Clieaf is Managing Director at FutureZero a leading consultancy advising Boards, CEO’s, CFO’s, CSO’s and CHRO’s on organization design, CEO / C-Suite succession planning and selection, and long-term incentive plan design all aligned to Net Zero 2050 and the Digital Transformation of Everything.

He brings over 30 years consulting experience in Boardrooms and C-Suites on 3 continents across a broad range of industries. This includes Global Energy, Utilities, Global Mining & Metals, Industrial, Consumer Marketing, Marketing Services, Retail, Technology, Telecom, and with Retail, Corporate and Investment Banking and Institutional Investors working worldwide.

He started his early career in marketing and branding and designed the campaign to launch the first Smart Electric Power Meter for the world. In his role in the business strategy and executive search consulting practices at Price Waterhouse he designed many executive positions for Boards including the start-up of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, OTPPB.

He brings extensive organizational design, executive staffing, and strategic leadership assessment experience for executive capacity to drive business model transformation. He has negotiated the employment agreements and incentive designs for over 400 senior officers for some of the largest companies in the world.

His applied research on Net Zero 2050 has set the benchmarks for Business Model Carbon Intensity and Carbon Adjusted Return on Capital and will be in the forthcoming book Net Zero Business Models. 

His research on the 5 levels of complexity of CEO work, and related complexity benchmarks for 4 levels of CFO, CHRO, Chief Sustainability officer, CMO role design, sets the benchmarks to align Net Zero 2050 with the 5 Innovation Zones required for Net Zero transformation. This research includes the requisite “Strategic Leadership” assessment tools for the 5 levels of “Conceptual Capacity & Systems Thinking” required for the Net Zero transition.

The strategic leadership research Mark has led over the last 30 years has identified a direct linkage between company valuation, growth in Enterprise Value (EV) and the Levels of Systems Thinking.
His consulting experience, research and thought leadership has been published in numerous publications including:

• Book- Net Zero Business Models – for 2023
• Board Governance Handbook
• Directorship
• Corporate Governance Advisor
• The Corporate Board
• The Ivey Business Journal
•  Business Horizons
•  American Journal of Management Development
• NACD Newsletter / Magazines

His appointments, memberships & thought leadership presentations have included:

• Credit Suisse Global Energy Conference for the Energy Transition to Net Zero
•  International Nuclear Lawyers Congress – Keynote on Energy Transition to Net Zero
  
• International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) panel lead for Performance Metrics, Incentives and Sustainability
  
• He is a member of the CFA Society New York

Sustainable Finance thought leadership group

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) – RSA in the UK
•  Guest Lecturer and Researcher, Corporate Governance, Ivey School of Business
• Commissioner for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Blue Ribbon Commission on CEO Succession Planning, Washington DC
• Founding Member, Executive Selection Research Advisory Board, Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina
• Guest Lecturer, Ph.D, Industrial / Organizational Psychology, the University of Guelph, Canada’s founding program in I/O psychology.