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Sandy Nessing

VP & Chief Sustainability Officer

AEP

With 27 years in the utility industry and more than 30 years of communications expertise, Sandy Nessing has responsibility for leading corporate ESG/sustainability strategy and disclosure, stakeholder engagement and strategic initiatives for American Electric Power (AEP). She chairs AEP’s Enterprise Sustainability Council and Corporate ESG Committee and serves on the Company’s Risk and Resilience Subcommittee. In 2023 she was named to Sustainability Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Sustainability.

She oversees corporate initiatives on climate change, environmental and social justice, political engagement, and Just Transition. In partnership with AEP’s Finance team, Nessing helped to craft AEP’s Sustainable Finance Framework, combining green bonds with social bonds to support the company’s clean energy transition. Through the Framework the company secured $1.45 billion in green bonds to support its largest wind energy facilities, now serving customers in three states.

Nessing is active with the Electric Power Research Institute’s sustainability-related initiatives. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) ESG/Sustainability Committee, and on EEI’s Customer Solutions Sustainability Subcommittee.

She currently serves as Chair of the Franklin Park Conservatory Board of Trustees, one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens located in Columbus, Ohio. She serves on the Board of Directors of Datamaran, the world’s only data-driven platform to identify and monitor material ESG risks and opportunities (AEP is an investor in Datamaran). She is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for NAEM, a national organization for environment, safety & health, and sustainability professionals. She is a member of Chief, a private network for executive women to strengthen their leadership and magnify their influence while paving the way for others. She has also been a long-time Executive Sponsor of the Ohio Chapter of the Women’s International Network of Utility Professionals (WiNUP).

She is a graduate of Briarwood College and DeVry University and completed Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Online, an executive certification program from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She lives in Westerville, Ohio.

Amy Brachio

Global Vice Chair, Sustainability

EY

Amy is the EY Global Vice Chair for Sustainability. In this role Amy leads EY’s sustainability and climate change agenda globally. She works across all of EY to support the design and delivery of services to help EY clients achieve their sustainability agenda, provide EY professionals with the opportunity to upskill and engage around the topic of sustainability and oversees the organization’s environmental strategy targeting a 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2025.

In 2022, Amy joined the EY Global Sustainability team as Deputy Vice Chair, focused on developing EY’s skills and capabilities to support clients to create value from their sustainability strategy for their business, their people and the planet, and to accelerate their net zero progress. Amy has over 25 years of experience in supporting large financial institutions on their consumer protection agendas and advising leaders on risk, resilience and transformation.

Amy is an active leader focused on the advancement of diversity and inclusiveness. Amy was recognized as Ernst & Young’s 2013 Working Mother of the Year, selected as one of Profiles in Diversity Journal‘s 2017 Women Worth Watching winners, spotlighted by Source Global Research as part of their Women in the Profession series and a recipient of Consulting Magazine’s Global Leaders in Consulting award for 2019.

Amy currently serves on the Board for Junior Achievement North in Minneapolis and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council focused on energy transition.

Mark Bamber

Head of Circularity & Remanufacturing

Volvo Group

Ramon Arratia

Chief Sustainability Officer

Ball Corporation

Ramon Arratia is Chief Sustainability Officer and VP Global Public Affairs at Ball Corporation and joined the company in January 2017. He believes in the competitive advantages that companies can obtain when sustainability,  innovation and a progressive public affairs agenda are combined. In his current role at Ball, he supports the acceleration of circularity and decarbonization of aluminum packaging supporting the company to achieve 85% recycled content and 55% scope 1,2,3 emissions reductions by 2030. He believes that close to 100% circularity is possible if product design, government policies and recycling infrastructure are all aligned.

Ramon has around 25 years of experience in sustainability-related positions at multinational companies such as Interface, Vodafone, Ericsson and now Ball Corporation.  He was Town Councillor at the age of 23 and has an MBA from Warwick Business School, an MSc in Quality and Environment and a college degree in organic chemistry, both from Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.

Louis Uzor

Climate Policy Manager

Climeworks

Louis Uzor has been involved in shaping Climeworks’ policy efforts since 2017. Since 2021, he is a Climate Policy Manager with a focus on the regulatory framework for DAC and CDR, mainly in Europe. Louis also holds a position at the Negative Emissions Platform as Accounting and Certification Working Group Chair. His academic background is in socio-ecological economics and policy.

Ingo Ramming

Head of Carbon Markets

BBVA

Ingo Ramming is Head of Carbon Markets at BBVA and has 20 years of experience in Environmental Markets Trading and Project Development.

Before joining BBVA, Ingo was a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Solutions at Commerzbank and worked at Dresdner Kleinwort and ENRON. Between 2006 and 2013, he was a Director of Carbon Trade & Finance.

Ingo was Deputy Head of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse Commodities, a Member of the Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX), and Co-Chaired IETA’s EU ETS Working Group.

Lars Henneberg

Vice President, Head of Risk Management

A.P. Møller-Mærsk

After serving as a commissioned officer in the Danish Army Lars got a master’s degree in law at the University of Copenhagen and spent 6 years as an Attorney at Law at the Danish law firm, Plesner. In 1998 he joined Maersk Oil, where he, after 5 years of posting in Qatar, became the General Counsel and Head of the Corporate Legal Department. After being with Maersk Oil for 12 years Lars moved to the A.P. Moller-Maersk group in 2010, where he became Vice President and Head of Global Risk Management. He still holds this position today, as well as is the Managing Director of Maersk Insurance A/S. In addition to these roles Lars is also Chairman of the board at the Danish Shipowners’ Accident Insurance Association, Board member in NorthStandard Reinsurance Limited, as well as Chairman of Danish Shipping’s Assurance Committee.

Linda Freiner

Group Head of Sustainability

Zurich Insurance

Since 2016, Ms. Freiner is responsible for global strategy and integration of sustainability across the Zurich Insurance Group. She also oversees management of the Z Zurich Foundation. Ms. Freiner joined Zurich in 2013 to set-up the Zurich Flood Resilience Program. Prior, she was a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum from 2007-2013 where she served as Head of Financial Services Strategic Partnerships and Head of Engagement Global Risks. She holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Joy Trinquet

Senior Analyst

Verdantix

Joy is an Industry Analyst in the Verdantix Smart Buildings practice. Her current research agenda focuses on building digital twins, BIM for operations, smart building systems integration as well as architecture, engineering and construction software. Joy joined Verdantix in 2019, and previously worked at BNP Paribas Asset Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with a concentration in policy as well as dual minors in computer science and business studies from New York University.

Adam Barnard

Principal Analyst

Verdantix

Adam is a Principal Analyst in the Verdantix Net Zero & Climate Risk practise. Prior to joining Verdantix, Adam was a Director at an environmentally focused US investment firm. Adam has previously held roles in London in investment management at Man Group, UBS and Morgan Stanley and in strategy at SABMiller in South Africa. Adam holds a Masters from Yale with a concentration on investment and the environment, a MBA with a concentration on impact investing and sustainability and a BCom(Honors) in Economics and Finance from the University of Cape Town

Kash Burchett

Global Head of Carbon Removal Technologies

HSBC

Kash Burchett is an energy economist with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. In his current role at HSBC, Kash covers all links in the carbon management value chain including capture, removal, transportation, utilization and storage. In the past he has covered energy supply and demand fundamentals at BP and worked on corporate strategy at French utility EDF. He was the lead author for the Energy Transition Commission’s 2022 study examining the role of CCUS in the Energy Transition.

Tim Christophersen

Vice President, Climate Action

Salesforce

Tim Christophersen joined Salesforce as VP, Climate Action in May 2022. Within the global Impact Team, he is focused on the role of nature-based solutions to climate change. Tim is based in Denmark.

Before joining Salesforce, Tim was Head of the ‘Nature for Climate’ Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led a growing global movement backed by all UN Member States and over 120 partner organizations to ‘prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide’: the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.

He holds a degree in Forestry and Forest Conservation Engineering from Dresden University of Technology. He previously worked for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), where he led the portfolio on the conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity. From 2017-2019, he was elected Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration.

From 2002-2007 he was Regional Programme Coordinator for Europe, the Caucasus and the Commonwealth of Independent States at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He also worked for the Danish Ministry of the Environment, and for the European Commission.

David Carlin

Head of Climate Risk and TCFD

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

David Carlin leads risk programming for UNEP- Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). He has worked with over 100 financial institutions on topics of climate scenarios, climate risk assessments, and sustainability regulation. He and his team support financial actors across the world to develop best practices for managing environmental risks and identifying environmental opportunities.

He currently advises UNEP FI’s Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). He has also been a technical advisor to the Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ).

He is the founder of Cambium Global Solutions, which helps governments, corporations, and financial institutions address the most pressing environmental challenges and thrive in a changing world.

He is also a contributor to Forbes, where he writes about climate change and leadership and a senior associate at Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) David has worked as a Principal in Finance, Risk, and Public Policy for Oliver Wyman and in Model Risk Management for PNC Bank. His background is in quantitative modeling and decision science.

He conducted research in financial decision-making at Carnegie Mellon University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College.

Katelyn Johnson

Principal Analyst

Verdantix

Katelyn is a Principal Analyst in the Net Zero & Climate Risk practice. Prior to joining Verdantix, Katelyn was a climate scientist at GNS Science in New Zealand. Katelyn has previously held roles in the energy industry, where she helped projects manage risk arising from weather and ocean phenomena. Katelyn holds a PhD in Geology from Victoria University of Wellington and an MS in Earth Sciences from Ohio State University, both focusing on climate science, as well as a BSc in Meteorology from Texas A&M University.

Paul Pellizzari

Vice President—Global Social Responsibility

Hard Rock International and Seminole Gaming

Paul Pellizzari is Vice President—Global Social Responsibility, Hard Rock International and Seminole Gaming. For over two decades he has worked as an executive leading operational ESG programs, a strategist, a purpose-driven marketer, and a research consultant. He has collaborated with different orders of government, the United Nations, and with local, national and international not-for-profit organizations. He is the author of two books and many articles on corporate responsibility, and has taught as adjunct faculty at Queen’s University, in Kingston Ontario.  His programs have received numerous international and national awards.

Mona Naqvi

Global Head of Sustainable Capital Markets

S&P Global Sustainable1

Mona Naqvi is Global Head of Sustainable Capital Markets at S&P Global Sustainable1, responsible for investor engagement and elevating S&P’s sustainable product suite. Previously, she spearheaded the launch of the flagship S&P 500® ESG Index as Head of the North American ESG Index business for S&P Dow Jones Indices, and supported institutional investors on climate goals as Director for S&P Global Trucost. Prior to joining S&P Global, Mona held various ESG leadership roles as Research Director of the 2° Investing Initiative, as a Climate Policy Advisory to the Obama Administration, and as an Economist at the Bank of England.

Mona graduated Summa Cum Laude in Government & Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and has published extensively on sustainable finance topics. She regularly appears on the likes of CNBC, Bloomberg, and other mainstream financial media, as a recognized ESG expert, educator and market commentator. Her work has afforded her numerous accolades including the 2019 FiNext Excellence in Finance Leadership Award, the Women in Asset Management Awards’ 2021 Index Leader Award and 2021 Next Generation Leader Award. Mona currently also sits on the Governance Council of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which aims to elevate health and wellbeing to the forefront of ESG frameworks and standards.

Louis Redshaw

CEO and Founder

Redshaw Advisors Ltd and Net Zero Markets Ltd

Louis Redshaw is CEO and founder of Redshaw Advisors Ltd a company dedicated to making companies successful in environmental markets. Redshaw Advisors, established in 2014, brings together like-minded customer focussed professionals to inform, advise and train industry, governments and investors.

As a Managing Director at Barclays Capital Louis founded, and ran for 10 years, Barclays’ Environmental Markets division that, under his stewardship, became the world’s largest carbon business by traded volume. Louis has been a true ‘first mover’ in the carbon markets driving forward innovative and ground-breaking wholesale market and investor products designed to boost market liquidity.

Louis has served as a Director on the boards of the Climate Markets & Investors Association (CMIA), a Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and a Director of Tricorona. He holds an MSc from Imperial College in Environmental Technology and Energy Policy.

Tommy Ricketts

CEO and Co-Founder

BeZero Carbon

Tommy Ricketts is the CEO and co-founder of BeZero Carbon, a global ratings agency for the voluntary carbon market. BeZero was founded in 2020, its global team combines expertise within climate and earth science, financial research, data science, and public policy. Prior to founding BeZero Carbon, Tommy was a VP in Global Research at Bank of America and worked as a political strategist in London and Brussels.

Julie Baddeley

Chair and founder

Chapter Zero

Chair and founder of Chapter Zero, a network of more than 2,300 UK board members, Julie Baddeley has served on the boards of major organisations in the public and private sectors for more than 20 years. She is a director of FTSE 250 automotive supplier TI Fluid Systems plc, which is leading the transition to electric vehicles, Senior Independent Director of Marshall of Cambridge, and non-executive director of marketing analytics consultants Ebiquity plc. She was previously Senior Independent Director of Greggs plc and Yorkshire Building Society, and Chair of global recruitment company Harvey Nash.

Julie leads a series of initiatives to help chairs and non-executive directors recognise the challenge of climate change to their businesses, and their business’ impacts on global warming. She sees delivering a zero-carbon economy as the biggest challenge for business in her lifetime. She is on the board of the Climate Governance Initiative, which has Chapters focused on climate action in business in 56 countries, and is a By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Charlie Langdale

Head of Climate Risk and Resilience, Climate Risk and Resilience

Howden

Charlie brings over 25 years’ experience in the insurance market. Most of his career has been focused on financial institutions, designing risk transfer products across a wide range of disciplines. He is known for building new teams and capabilities with the aim of demonstrating how insurance can be used to help deal with the problems of tomorrow.

Rachel Delacour

CEO & Co-Founder

Sweep

Sweep cofounder and CEO Rachel Delacour is an award-wining repeat entrepreneur with a background in finance. In 2009, she cofounded BIME Analytics, a pioneering business intelligence SaaS which was acquired by US customer service company Zendesk six years later. Rachel worked there as General Manager until she decided to use her talent to help clean the climate mess with Sweep.

A leading female figure in European tech, Rachel was elected co-President of France Digitale in 2018 and her thought leadership has been featured in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. An advocate for women in tech, she has backed several female-founded US and French startups.

Rob Genieser

Managing Partner

ETF Partners

Rob is a Managing Partner at ETF Partners since early 2010. ETF is the leading fund in Europe backing technology entrepreneurs focused on delivering sustainability through innovation. Prior to joining ETF Partners, Rob was a Managing Partner at Vertex, one of the oldest and most prestigious investment firms out of Asia, where he led its European and North American investment activities for 8 years. Before that, Rob was a Managing Director of JP Morgan (and Hambrecht & Quist), focusing on advising high-tech growth companies globally. Earlier in his career, Rob was a management consultant for Bain & Co. in San Francisco, where he focused on the telecommunications industry. He holds an AB and MBA from Harvard University.

David Metcalfe

CEO

Verdantix

David is the CEO of Verdantix and co-founded the firm in 2008. Based on his 20 years of experience in technology strategy and research roles, he provides guidance on digital strategies to C-Level executives at technology providers, partners at private equity firms and function heads at large corporations. His current focus is on helping clients understand their market opportunity tied to ESG investment trends and the impact of these on corporate sustainability strategies. During his 12 years running Verdantix – including four leading the New York office – he has helped dozens of clients grow their businesses through fundraising, acquisitions and international growth. David was previously SVP Research at Forrester and Head of Analysis & Forecasting at BT. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

Orlan Boston

EY

Orlan is a senior partner and executive and catalyst, connector and convener deeply committed to bringing people and organizations together for fundamental change and global impact. Currently serving as EY’s Americas Sustainability & ESG Markets Leader, he is responsible for creating and leading the EY Sustainability & ESG practice, go-to-market practices, services, solutions, and offerings. He chairs the EY Americas Sustainability & ESG Leadership Team and serves on EY’s Global Sustainability Executive Committee, EY Americas Markets Leadership team, and EY’s Global Social Equity Task Force. He has spent the past three decades serving in senior leadership and board roles in business, media, politics, public service, nonprofits, and philanthropy as a senior partner and executive at EY and Deloitte, entrepreneur, venture capital investor, awardwinning film producer, author, presidential appointee, public servant, philanthropist, and member of several boards. His consulting career spans corporate and commercial strategy, governance, growth, innovation, digital, technology, human capital, talent, change management, operations, transformation, M&A transaction, and sustainability/ESG advisory services for CEOs, C-Suite executives, and corporate board directors of Fortune 100 companies and private equity and venture capital firms in the healthcare, life sciences, consumer, and technology sectors. In addition, he serves as EY’s Senior Advisory Partner for several major client accounts.

He served as Global Client Service Partner for the Johnson & Johnson account for 7 years as EY’s senior advisor to the J&J Chairman & CEO, Board, and Executive Committee responsible for the global EY and J&J relationship and building one of the most successful and innovative accounts at EY. He served as EY’s Global Accounts Excellence & Innovation Leader in a Chief Commercial and Customer Innovation Officer capacity leading EY’s global commercial and accounts excellence and innovation initiatives for its largest and most important client account portfolio representing over $13B in annual revenues. He served as Founding Chair of the Global Accounts Innovation Advisory Board and member of EY’s Global Markets Leadership Team and Global Accounts Committee. He held various senior Healthcare leadership roles as member of EY’s Global Health Sciences Executive Board, EY Americas Strategy & Transactions Life Sciences Leader and EY Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovation Leader. He served as East Region G360 Markets Leader representing and leading EY’s largest accounts in the region and member of EY’s East Region Leadership Team responsible. Prior to joining EY in 2012, he held various firm, management, and account leadership roles at Deloitte Consulting including as Senior Partner, Chief Diversity Officer, and US Life Sciences M&A Leader.

He is both an entrepreneur having started technology and real estate ventures and an intrapreneur having founded a number of successful practices, alliances, and service offerings with EY and previously Deloitte. He served on the Big Think Advisory Board and currently serves as an advisor to Max Ventures, a NYC based technology and e-commerce VC firm, and is an active angel investor. He has a long history in ESG and Sustainability efforts across the public and private sectors and in public private partnerships. Partnering with J&J over the years he oversaw an EY team that supported EY’s and J&J’s participation and efforts with the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism in 2018, served as the Executive Sponsor for EY’s multimillion-dollar pro bono program supporting the global development and distribution efforts of J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine, and orchestrated several creative and successful strategic ESG, sustainability, health equity, and innovation and tech ecosystem partnerships. In 2020, Goldman Sachs appointed him to the Launch With GS Advisory Board, their $1B+ groundbreaking social impact venture fund and accelerator exclusively investing in women, black, and latinx tech founders and VC fund managers. In 2014, he received a Presidential Appointment by President Barack Obama as the fourth Obama White House Political Appointee to the Global Board of Governors of the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO). He is a member of the Partnership for New York City, the Partnership Innovation Council, and the Partnership Fund’s Healthcare Advisory Board. He is also a David Rockefeller Fellow and member of the Executive Leadership Council and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

Orlan is a passionate social entrepreneur having launched various award-winning social change and impact ventures in publishing, documentary and feature filmmaking, civil rights, and philanthropy. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Trevor Project, the world’s leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth and was a member of the NYC LGBTQ Center’s Board of Directors. He was named to the OUTstanding and Financial Times list of the 2016 Top 100 LGBT Leaders. In 2013 he produced HBO’s critically acclaimed The Out List documentary film and book and is currently producing his latest epic feature film, Firebird. He was a co-author of I Am Ecowarrior, a book featuring editorial portraits and interviews with global luminaries in the environmental sustainability movement. In 2020, Orlan co-authored the feature article, The Strategic Side Gig, published in Harvard Business Review Magazine and in 2021 was published in HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Career Resilience book.

He holds a B.S. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business and has completed a variety of executive education programs at Harvard Business School, University of Oxford, INSEAD, and London Business School.

Evan Greenfield

S&P Global

Evan was formerly Senior Managing Director, Global Head of ESG at S&P Global, where he oversaw ESG strategy, M&A and operations. Evan led ESG investments and acquisitions at S&P Global, culminating in the acquisition of SAM . He has two decades of experience in the financial services vertical, with significant time focused on ESG investing in alternative markets, and has spent over a decade as a private equity investor across the globe.

Evan is a passionate member of the ESG movement and believes that capital markets can play a critical role in advancing sustainability.