The Net Impact Club at UBC Sauder reflects the shared belief among Sauder’s business students, that creating positive environmental and social impact can be part of any business career path. Whether students are focused on finance, consulting, operations, entrepreneurship, or supply chains, the club helps them explore how impact considerations can be meaningfully integrated into their chosen fields.
Net Impact serves as a bridge between Sauder, and UBC’s broader sustainability ecosystem, practitioners and industry leaders. Through these collaborations, the club offers practical exposure to how impact is measured, evaluated, and acted upon in real-world decision-making.
By combining multidisciplinary collaboration with applied learning, Net Impact supports the development of thoughtful, responsible leaders equipped to navigate the trade-offs between business performance and impact.
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Co-President: Mariajosé Pineda Gonzalez
Mariajosé is a co-founder of Amamba, a coffee and juice bar she helped build and operate in Mexico City. Through her entrepreneurial journey, she developed a strong interest in environmental and social sustainability after experiencing how operational choices affect both people and the environment. At Amamba, she worked on reducing the business’s environmental footprint (rethinking sourcing, waste, and daily practices), while maintaining profitability and a community-centered model.
That experience shaped her conviction that small businesses can be both sustainable and financially viable, and motivated her to pursue an MBA to explore how these principles can scale within larger organizations. She is particularly interested in impact investing as both a platform and a philosophy—one that uses capital to support innovative, scalable solutions at the intersection of business and society.
Mariajosé believes meaningful change is driven by collaboration, social engagement, and thoughtful capital allocation. She is always open to connecting and can be reached on LinkedIn.
Co-President:
Zach Wilson
Zach is an MBA candidate at UBC Sauder specializing in Climate & Finance, with a background in data science, financial modeling, and sustainability analytics. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a Data Scientist at Spin Master, supporting pricing, demand, and portfolio decisions across global brands, and earlier at IKEA Canada, where he contributed to national sustainability reporting and business cases linking environmental performance with financial outcomes.
These experiences shaped his conviction that sustainability is most effective when grounded in rigorous analysis and real economic trade-offs. He is particularly interested in how data and finance can be used to integrate climate risk and long-term value creation into core business and investment decisions.
As a leader within the Net Impact Club, Zach is passionate about fostering a collaborative, practical community where students can build skills at the intersection of finance, data, and impact.