Co-founder and Managing Partner, Buy Social Canada

David LePage is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Buy Social Canada. David has been a champion of social purchasing for decades and is proud to be an integral part of the Buy Social Canada team working with all levels of government, institutions, corporations and social value suppliers to buy and sell with impact. His years of experience span all dimensions of social enterprise activity, across rural and urban settings, cultures and borders. Developing and applying innovative market-based solutions over many years to complex social issues has led to David’s extensive experience in multi-sector engagements, skills development, and knowledge sharing. David blends direct community-based service delivery and influencing public policy to ensure effective and measurable outcomes. David is recognized internationally as a social enterprise and social procurement thought leader, effective practitioner, and public policy architect and is the author of Exploring Social Procurement (2014) and Marketplace Revolution: From Concentrated Wealth to Community Capital (2020).