Prior to joining B+H, Jamie was President of Biomimicry Frontiers — an award-winning sustainability consultancy in Guelph, Canada. He created the firm after receiving a Ph.D. in engineering in 2016, studying urban resilience and systems-level biomimicry. In 2019, Jamie started the Biomimicry Commons, a biomimicry education and incubator platform that was named a “World Changing Idea” by Fast Company. He was previously co-director of OCAD University biomimicry program, and was trained by Indigenous Elders and Janine Benyus on the deeper principles of biomimicry.