Our Directors

Jasper is a founding Director of Ndè Nàowò Environmental and a proud Tłı̨chǫ citizen from Behchokǫ̀, Northwest Territories. He is the founder and CEO of TLOHMBAA Developments Inc., a Tłı̨chǫ company that holds the majority Indigenous ownership of Ndè Nàowò, and brings over 20 years of leadership in Indigenous business and economic development. He has served as CEO of First Kaska, the Liard First Nation's development corporation, and as President and CEO of Tłı̨chǫ Investment Corporation Ltd.

Jasper has collaborated extensively with Indigenous governments, industry, and all orders of government to deliver projects that generate long-term socio-economic benefits — employment, skills development, and community ownership. He has served on the boards of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and the NWT & Nunavut Chamber of Mines, and speaks frequently at national and international forums on Indigenous economic development, infrastructure, and reconciliation.

James leads the partnership's archaeology and cultural resource practice. A cultural resource manager with more than 30 years in the field and over 25 years of management experience, his work spans heritage assessments, First Nations engagement, public consultation, planning, traditional land use studies, public outreach and education, artifact analysis, cemeteries and human remains, and environmental document preparation and review.

He has worked on environmental and heritage projects across the Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alaska, as well as in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Hawaii, Maine, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Japan, and Honduras. He served with the Yukon Heritage Branch in the 1980s and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the 1990s. A Registered Professional Archaeologist since 2000 and a Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist (BC) since 2011, he has held and closed over 60 heritage permits in the Yukon, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Alaska, and Alberta.