Primary industry: Energy | Secondary industry: Environmental
Carrie Fanai is an Innovation Coach and Strategy Consultant with 25 years of experience across multiple industries. Carrie helps startups and scale-ups commercialize technology and work effectively with large corporate partners. As a professional engineer, she brings deep expertise in corporate innovation strategy, portfolio management, and industrial technology development.
Having held senior innovation and program leadership roles within oil sands producers, midstream, and petrochemical companies, Carrie understands how corporates evaluate risk, select partners, and move technologies from pilot to deployment. She helps startups clarify their value proposition, prepare for corporate engagement, structure pilots and partnerships, and navigate complex corporate decision-making.
Across energy, petrochemicals, agri-food, accelerators, and academic ecosystems, Carrie has built and de-risked innovation portfolios and partnerships. Her work focuses on turning innovation into execution, accelerating commercialization, reducing friction between startups and corporates, and enabling partnerships that create real, deployable value.