Andrea Feunekes
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
BIOGRAPHY
Andrea has been instrumental in building Remsoft into a world leader in the field of sustainable resource management and asset lifecycle optimization. Her expertise lies in data-driven, sustainable planning and helping businesses to better manage their land assets while ensuring their economic and environmental sustainability by bringing business intelligence to the planning and optimization of assets.
Under her leadership, Andrea has grown Remsoft from a start-up to one of the world’s leading providers of advanced analytics, modeling and spatial planning technology. Through Andrea’s leadership, Remsoft currently serves over 150 clients on six continents, with Remsoft clients collectively managing over half a billion acres of land using Remsoft software.
Andrea is also heavily involved as a volunteer in her community. She has served as co-chair of the New Brunswick Business Council and sits on the board for The Wallace McCain Institute and the Stan Cassidy Foundation, as well as the board of a major global manufacturer in the paper industry. She is a recipient of the RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award, Startup Canada Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award and she was named an Edelman Laureate by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Andrea holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors; a Bachelor degree in Geography (BA) and Outdoor Recreation (HBOR) from Lakehead University, Post-Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education (Geography) from McGill University and a Master of Science (Forestry) from the University of New Brunswick.