Marco Di Girolamo is Co-Founder and Board Member of Operation Water, and Founder and Chairman of Terra Firma, a registered Canadian charity, which has partnered with Operation Water to build water infrastructure projects in developing communities in emerging economies.  He is also a Co-Founder and Board member of the Club of Florence, which promotes actionable policy for the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  

Marco formerly served as Senior Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager with $800 billion AUM, focused on investing in real assets across real estate, infrastructure, renewable power and private equity. Marco managed institutional, financial service, and family office partner (LPs) relationships across Canada for Brookfield.

Before joining Brookfield, Marco advised family offices as a Director/Portfolio Manager for UBS's Private Bank. In this role, he managed discretionary client portfolios on an absolute return basis and ran business development activities. Prior to this role, Marco consulted technology companies in Silicon Valley with Gartner.

Marco completed his MBA with distinction at the Ivey School of Business at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and received a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance at the University of Ottawa.