About BlueVector
Independent judgement, grounded in water-sector experience.
BlueVector Strategy is an independent, senior-led strategic advisory firm. We help senior leaders understand consequential water choices and strengthen the organizations responsible for carrying them through.
Our purpose
Understand the choice and the organization it requires.
Resilient infrastructure depends on resilient organizations. Resilient organizations depend on decisions that withstand pressure.
A significant water decision can create obligations long after the immediate project. It can change who governs a service, who is accountable, what must be funded and which capabilities an organization needs.
We examine these implications together. Infrastructure performance, organizational capability and governance each matter to the quality and continuity of water services.
Our team
Complementary experience, directly involved in the work.
Rahim Kanji and Rienk de Vries lead BlueVector’s advisory work, supported by executive advisor Mohsen Mortada. Our experience combines executive leadership, utility operations, organizational change, innovation and water-sector partnerships.
Rahim Kanji, P.Eng.
Executive leadership, strategy, innovation and partnerships
Rahim is a Professional Engineer and Executive Director of the Ontario Water Consortium. His work includes building collaborative water-sector initiatives and connecting organizations with the expertise and partnerships needed to advance their priorities.
He brings a sector-wide perspective to choices involving innovation, organizational direction and collaboration across public, private and academic organizations.
View Rahim’s professional profile
Rienk de Vries
Utility leadership, operating models and governance reform
Rienk has more than 30 years of experience running and reshaping major utilities. His background brings the practical responsibilities of utility leadership into discussions about institutional models, governance and organizational change.
His experience includes co-authoring the Township of Hamilton’s 2022 water-department service-delivery review through Maclaren Municipal Consulting. He examines what a proposed direction will require from the people, systems and operating arrangements responsible for water services.
View Rienk’s professional profileMohsen Mortada
Executive advisor
Mohsen serves as Chief of Staff at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. His water and infrastructure experience brings strategic and international perspectives to the institutional arrangements and capabilities needed for service delivery.
He contributes experienced judgement to consequential choices where infrastructure, governance and organizational responsibilities intersect.
How we work
Close to the accountable leader.
We work with the executives, boards and senior public-sector leaders responsible for a decision or service. An engagement begins with a defined question or mandate and uses the evidence already available.
We involve additional senior advisers or specialists where the work requires their expertise. Engagement leadership, responsibilities and availability are agreed when the assignment is scoped.
Our independence
Advice without a downstream commercial interest.
BlueVector works upstream of, and alongside, technical and professional advisers. We use sound engineering, legal, financial, planning and operational analysis rather than duplicating it.
We do not provide engineering design, sell equipment or technology, or undertake construction delivery. We do not accept success-based fees.
Our role is to provide an independent strategic view of the choice and the organization required to deliver it.
Discuss the decision you need to make.
A first conversation can clarify the question, the responsibilities involved and where independent advice would be useful.