Blake Turner
Vice President, Technology
Blake Turner is a seasoned senior engineering leader with a proven track record of building diverse organizations with high-performing cultures. Blake spent the past 3 years leading Technology at Bench Accounting, the largest bookkeeping firm in North America. Under his leadership, the Technology team tripled in size while achieving notable gender diversity. Blake’s strategic vision led to transformative changes, such as transitioning from a manual service to an automated real-time solution, and achieving SOC2 Type 2 compliance. As Vice President, Technology at OPEN, Blake’s mandate is to mature and grow the organization, and foster the next chapter of innovation in this space.
Team
Our team has decades of experience in green building innovation, software development, and business development.
With executive and management level experience in policy-making, real estate development, property management, architecture, energy modelling, product management, and business management, we have a holistic understanding of the building sector and the leverage points to create positive change.
OPEN Technologies grew out of the OPEN Green Building Society, a non-profit organization that has been developing open source software tools for the green building space since 2013. Today, OPEN Technologies and OPEN Green Building Society are affiliated organizations with a shared goal: to use data to shape a regenerative future for our cities.