Ryan Zizzo

Founder & CEO at Mantle Developments

Speaker

Ryan Zizzo is Founder & CEO at Mantle Developments, a Toronto-based consultancy focused on climate-smart infrastructure and buildings. His team supports projects to go beyond energy efficiency, incorporating resilience and life cycle approaches to make projects future-proof and net-zero carbon-ready.

Ryan helps large organizations and governments transition to a low-carbon future. His work has directly supported an update to the Toronto Green Standard, North America's first policy to limit embodied carbon on certain types of new building construction. He has also contributed to the development of the Government of Canada's Standard on Embodied Carbon in Construction which requires low-carbon concrete on large federal construction projects. Ryan has worked with leading organizations like the YMCA of Greater Toronto to help quantify and minimize the carbon impacts associated with major construction projects.

Ryan holds a master’s degree in applied science in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a licensed engineer in the province of Ontario. He was named one of Canada’s Clean50 for 2024.