JOELLE FAULKNER

President AREA ONE FARMS LTD

BIO: Joelle is President of Area One Farms Ltd, an alternative asset management firm she co-founded in 2012. Joelle created a farmer-centric private equity model to help scale Canadian family farms and deliver premium investor returns. Joelle holds degrees in Engineering and Business from Western; Law from Oxford; and a Masters of Laws and Certificate of Biodesign from Stanford University. She is a Rhodes Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, member of the New York Bar Association, on the list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100, and one of EY’S Entrepreneurial Winning Women.

BEST CAREER ADVICE: A career is a horserace that is run over 50 years, so you really never know how it will turn out.