After fifty-five years leading the Brinkman Group as CEO, Dirk Brinkman is pleased the Board of Directors have completed their succession planning and appointed his son Erik Andrew Cody Brinkman as CEO.
Erik began working with the company in ecosystem restoration when he joined a crew to stabilize the earthen Alouette Dam in 1992. Over the next thirty years, Erik worked in various capacities across many of Brinkman Group's operations, including Treeplanter, Project Manager, Executive, as well as Director. Erik will continue to work alongside Dirk in his new role as Senior Advisor & Founder, the Executive team and Board of Directors, and Brinkman Group’s subsidiaries, divisions, and partnerships, towards its Vision of creating lasting impact through ecological renewal.
Since its formation in 1970, Dirk Brinkman has led the Brinkman Group, which has grown into Canada's leading reforestation, sustainable land management and ecosystem restoration company, with international operations in the US and Central America. Through decades of land management innovation, the company built a long successful track record of partnering with Indigenous land rights holders and farmer cooperatives to sustainably manage resources for social, environmental, and economic benefits.
