Our Team

JEFF WESTEINDE likes to pay attention. As an active investor and entrepreneur in the environmental and real estate sectors, and as co-founder of THEIA Partners Inc, one of Canada’s most environmentally and socially sustainable real estate developers, Jeff has made a career of paying attention to things and places overlooked by others, transforming them into something great. Jeff has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 by the Globe and Mail, recognized with the Young Alumni Award from the University of Western Ontario, has been awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for his distinguished service to Canada and most recently has been awarded the Professional Engineers of Ontario medal for Entrepreneurship. His businesses have been included in Canada’s fastest growing companies and the Top 50 Employers in Canada. Jeff is an Honorary Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces, is the Founding Chairman of Invest Ottawa and the founding vice-Chair of the Bayview Yards Innovation Center in Ottawa. Jeff is an avid outdoorsman whose passion for mountain climbing (he has summited 3 of the world’s “7 Summits”), skiing, golfing and fishing are but a distant second behind his love for his family which includes his wife Colleen, and their five adult children. Jeff is the brainchild behind Zibi a world-class sustainable community and redevelopment project. Zibi, which means ‘river’ in Algonquin, is being built on the former industrial EB Eddy Lands, consisting of both Chaudière and Albert Islands and 22 acres of waterfront in downtown Hull surrounded by the Ottawa River.