Responsible Investment Forum 2026

Jyoti Aggarwala

Principal, Private Capital Raise

Jyoti is a New York-based, senior private markets business development professional with 30+ years of experience across asset classes and geographies in the financial services industry. She is a registered representative with Profor Securities, LLC and works with GPs to access capital from institutional and family office investors.

As Principal of Private Capital Raise, Jyoti serves as an outsourced ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) integration facilitator to asset managers seeking to include sustainability factors in their investment process. She earned the CFA ESG Investing Certification in February 2022. Jyoti has also served as senior ESG consultant to UN Women (Sept ’21 - April ’23) where she helped forge the private sector partnerships to produce a report on the state of Gender Lens Investing. She is a W!SE certified personal finance educator, and a council member of an expert network providing phone consultations and educational webcasts on various aspects of private equity. Jyoti holds Series 7, 63, 79 and 24 registrations. She earned an MBA in Finance from Bentley University and a BA (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University. She is a member of PEWIN, the leading non-profit for senior women in private equity.

Private Capital Raise

Principal, Jyoti Aggarwala, dba Private Capital Raise (PCR) and registered representative of Profor Securities LLC, is a placement agent and Impact/ESG consultant for private funds. She places partnership interests of private funds with institutional, single, and multi-family office investors in the United States. The firm specializes in working with small, diverse, impact, and emerging market fund managers.

AUM enhancing services include:

Strengthening the Fund’s value proposition by identifying any gaps in strategy or the team and track record, reviewing marketing collateral, the data room and providing input on the website.
Enhancing the Go-to-Market strategy (lead generation to support investor pipeline, competitive landscape study, and investor mapping).
Implementing the marketing plan (building and leveraging networks and relationships at key investor events), setting up one-on-one virtual and in-person meetings and empaneling the fund summary on relevant investor platforms.
Designing, writing, and publishing content for investor impact reporting and/or ESG integration.

Brittany Agostino

Principal, ESG - US Credit Lead, Ares Management

Ms. Agostino is a Principal in the Ares Environmental, Social and Governance Group. Prior to joining Ares in 2022, Ms. Agostino was a Vice President in the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs, where she focused on ESG and impact investing initiatives. Ms. Agostino holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Economics.

Vikram Agrawal

Co-Founder & CEO, American Resilience Partners

Vikram Agrawal is a mission-driven, operationally-focused investment and management professional who believes that everyone deserves an opportunity to be successful, however they define success. He has a dual mandate focused on leading investments and catalyzing impact with a mission to demonstrate that investing in resilience and sustainability can drive both greater profitability/value creation for businesses and higher risk-adjusted returns for investors.

Vikram is the CEO and Co-Founder of American Resilience Partners which is a Texas-based, mission-driven entrepreneurial private investment firm with an operationally-focused investment strategy targeting minority growth equity or majority-control investments in strategically-viable, established, and profitable American businesses that have a significant Strategic Value Proposition and are at the forefront of providing critical solutions to America’s and the world’s most pressing infrastructure, resilience, and sustainability challenges.

Vikram separately supports the environmental non-profit EarthX by helping lead its EarthxCapital team which is focused on developing an ecosystem of investors, innovators, and industry leaders focused on catalyzing impact related to sustainability-focused investment & business innovation and hosts the annual E-Capital Summit, which is an invitation-only sustainability investment & innovation conference.

Karishma Ahuja

ESG Manager, Madison Dearborn Partners

Karishma is MDP’s ESG Manager, leading the firm’s sustainability work across the portfolio. Prior to joining MDP, Karishma helped to build Carlyle’s Sustainability practice which managed the firm’s investment diligence and portfolio company engagement work on material ESG issues. Before that, Karishma was a member of the ESG and impact investing business within Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division.

Karishma received a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan.

Matthew Alcock

Associate, ESG, Coller Capital

Matthew Alcock joined Coller Capital in 2023 as an Associate, ESG in the Investment Team. Prior to joining the firm, Matthew worked at Deloitte UK as an Assistant Manager specialising in private equity and ESG audits.

Matthew has an undergraduate degree in Business Science specialising in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and completed a post graduate diploma in Accounting from University of Cape Town.

Matthew is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Sam Alden

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Sense

Sam Alden is the Head of FP&A at Sense, a company leveraging data at the edge of the grid to help reduce global carbon emissions. In his role, Sam oversees all financial planning, financial and ESG reporting, and serves as a liaison to investors.

Prior to joining Sense, Sam led the FP&A team at a fintech company called OpenExchange and served as Director of Operations for a non-profit organization. Sam received his MBA from the University of Vermont’s Sustainable Innovation program.

Janay Anderson

Vice President, Operational Due Diligence, Aksia

Janay is Vice President at Aksia as part of the operational due diligence team and has 7 years of industry experience. Her responsibilities include conducting operational due diligence on alternative investments in addition to performing ad-hoc operational due diligence requests across Aksia’s global offices. Janay also oversees responsible investment reviews of alternative investments managers Aksia diligences globally on behalf of institutional investors. Janay graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in French with a specialization in Pre-medicine.

Ayub Ansari

Principal Consultant, Anthesis

Specializing in engineering, impact funds, and sustainable investment management. With 10 years of environmental sector experience, he provides strategic guidance tailored to the goals of impact funds and sustainability-focused investors. He combines engineering and sustainability expertise to conduct carbon accounting, evaluate environmental market mechanisms, structure climate finance solutions, and lead clients implement decarbonization strategies while integrating ESG practice.

Sharo Atmeh

COO, Montauk Climate

Sharo is Chief Operating Officer at Montauk Climate. Prior to Montauk, Sharo spent a decade building out a ClimateTech investing platform at one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He was a Portfolio Manager and among the initial and largest investors in a number of growth-stage public companies spanning all clean-tech verticals including solar, hydrogen, wind, energy storage, and utilities. In addition, he ran ESG integration and engagement programs. Sharo was also a Principal at activism-defense and ESG advisory firm CamberView Partners where he established its east-coast presence and grew it to over 50 employees until it was sold to PJT Partners. In that role he counseled Fortune 50 company boards and CEOs on building their initial approach to sustainability programs. In addition, Sharo practiced law in the Corporate and Mergers practices of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett. Sharo graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Political Science, Journalism and Philosophy, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School., and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Christina Anzel

Director, Generation Investment Management

Christina Anzel joined Generation Investment Management in 2023 and is a member of the Client Team. Previously, Christina was a Director of Investor Relations & ESG at True Green Capital Management; a Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and Product Head at Ares Management; and a Vice President of Investor Relations and Marketing at Energy Investors Funds.

Nicole Balarezo Urteaga

Associate – ESG & Sustainability Advisory, Holtara

Nicole is part of Holtara's Sustainability Advisory team, specializing in regulatory advisory across sustainability reporting standards. She supports clients with SFDR reporting commitments, the calculation of Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) indicators, and EU Taxonomy alignment analysis. Additionally, she provides technical guidance on climate-related disclosures, including Financed Emissions and Avoided Emissions calculations.

Prior to joining Holtara, Nicole worked on over 40 consulting projects, advising clients on climate finance, regulation, public policy, and competition analysis in Latin America. She was also part of the credit risk analysis team at a pension fund and at one of the world's top credit rating agencies. She holds a BA in Economics from Universidad de Piura and an MA in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Eric Bloom

COO ＆ Head of Client Solutions, Re:Co

As COO and Head of Client Solutions, Eric oversees product and service delivery and spearheads Re:Co’s thought leadership efforts, such as the Future in Sight newsletter. Eric works with clients on all aspects of their ESG strategy, bringing deep knowledge of carbon management, renewable energy markets, and business best practices to the table to help them identify improvement measures with a high return on investment and chart long-term pathways toward decarbonization.

Before joining Re:Co, Eric worked in several capacities as a strategy consultant on clean energy technologies. He led strategy for Ameresco, a major energy efficiency and renewable energy developer in North America and Europe and served as a principal research consultant with Navigant’s (now Guidehouse) energy practice. He received a BA in Architecture at Yale University.

Re:Co

Re:Co’s tech-powered advisory solutions enable private market investors and their portfolio companies to pursue value creation and sustainability in tandem. Using our easy-to-implement SaaS-based data platform, private equity firms can collect the data needed to build out ESG programs as well as to report to investors and other stakeholders. Our seasoned advisors build on this data foundation, bringing years of value creation experience and expertise in high-ROI ESG measures and decarbonization to our services. The funds and portfolio companies we partner with come away with achievable sustainability strategies and action plans that drive value while also supporting improvement across the full spectrum of ESG metrics.

Christina Bortz

Deputy General Counsel, ESG, TPG Angelo Gordon

Christina Bortz serves as Deputy General Counsel, ESG at TPG and heads TPG’s ESG Legal function. She has experience advising asset managers on a wide range of legal, regulatory, and compliance issues relating to the application of the ’33 and ’34 Acts, the 1940 Act, and SEC and FINRA rules, and state-level ESG regulations. She works closely with Y Analytics, TPG’s purpose-built capability that supports TPG, its funds, and its portfolio companies by assessing and advising on ESG regulatory matters, ESG risk management, and value creation through ESG performance during the investment lifecycle. Prior to joining TPG, she was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Goldman Sachs in Private Wealth Management. She started her legal career at Ropes & Gray LLP in the Investment Management group and she also practiced at Alston & Bird LLP in the Securities Litigation group. Ms. Bortz earned her JD with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 2015 and her BA from Princeton University in 2010, where she was a Captain on the Field Hockey Team, won four Ivy League Titles, and competed in the Final Four.

Karin Bouwmeester

ESG Lead Private Equity, PGGM Investments

Karin Bouwmeester works as ESG specialist in the private equity team of the Dutch pension fund investor PGGM Investments. She has over 15 years experience in the financial sector. At development financial institutions FMO and Proparco she worked as investment manager infra/energy. Here, ESG was an integral part of her day-to-day work with focus on SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). At the private banking division of ABN AMRO she had the opportunity to specialize in ESG, broaden the scope of investable SDG’s and explore other asset classes, most importantly listed equities and corporate & sovereign bonds.

Carrie Braddock

Managing Director, Head of ESG and Impact, Silver Lake

Carrie Braddock joined Silver Lake in 2020 as a Managing Director and Head of ESG & Impact. Prior to joining Silver Lake, she was a Senior Managing Director at Centerbridge Partners, where she was responsible for launching the Centerbridge Foundation, developing an ESG strategy, and integrating Inclusion and Diversity initiatives across the firm. She began her career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs as well as in strategic planning at the Walt Disney Company. Carrie now serves on the Board of Directors of New Visions for Public Schools. She is also on the founding Advisory Board of Mount Sinai’s Parenting Center, and in 2019 received the Social Enterprise Leadership Award from the Tamer Center at Columbia Business School. Carrie graduated with a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm, with more than $103 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake’s portfolio companies collectively generate nearly $248 billion of revenue annually and employ approximately 444,000 people globally.

Chris Brannan

Assistant General Counsel & ESG Officer, Pritzker Private Capital

Chris Brannan serves as both the Assistant General Counsel and the Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Officer for Pritzker Private Capital. As Assistant General Counsel, Chris works with PPC and the PPC Companies on regulatory compliance, transaction execution, and various other legal matters. As ESG Officer, Chris manages PPC’s communications and tracking programs related to ESG and works with the Firm and the PPC Companies to further ESG efforts and initiatives. Chris joined PPC in 2017 as Assistant General Counsel. Prior to PPC, Chris was an attorney in the M&A practices at Winston & Strawn LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Prior to law school, Chris was a Tax/Assurance Associate at PwC, where he received his CPA license. Chris received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from Bucknell University where he was a member of the baseball team.

Pritzker Private Capital partners with middle-market companies based in North America with leading positions in the manufactured products and services sectors. The firm’s differentiated, long-duration capital base allows for efficient decision-making, broad flexibility with transaction structure and investment horizon, and alignment with all stakeholders. Pritzker Private Capital builds businesses for the long term and is an ideal partner for entrepreneur and family-owned companies. Pritzker Private Capital is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

Andrew Brenner

Director of Investment Management Integration, IFRS Foundation

Andrew Brenner is the Director of Investment Management Integration at the IFRS Foundation, where he helps investors and investor-adjacent service providers integrate the SASB Standards into their products and processes. SASB Standards enable organizations to provide industry-based sustainability disclosures about risks and opportunities that affect enterprise value, identifying the subset of environmental, social and governance issues most relevant to financial performance and enterprise value for 77 industries.

Prior to joining IFRS Foundation, he spent nearly 20 years in a variety of roles across the financial services industry, most recently at Refinitiv, where he worked in several global Director level roles across product and relationship management. He began his career in financial advisory roles at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan before working in investment advisory roles at Maxim Group. With a lifelong passion for conservation and the environment, Andrew holds a Masters degree in Sustainability Leadership from Virginia Tech, and a BA from the University at Albany. In his free time, he is an avid scuba diver, a terrible golfer, and live music junkie.

Winna Brown

Partner, Private Equity, EY

Winna is focused on ensuring consistent global delivery of EY services to PE portfolio companies aligned with the investment, value creation and ESG strategies of these businesses. She works directly with Operating Partners as well as investee management teams to ensure quality and responsiveness of EY services, bringing the best-in-class EY skills, solutions and portfolio insights.

Winna has over 25 years of experience working with both global and fast-growing companies, leading large assignments including M&A transactions, integration, finance modernization and process improvement projects, IPOs, cross-border filings & transactions, audit engagements and IFRS-US GAAP conversions. Winna has served clients in a variety of sectors including private equity, technology, life sciences, healthcare, retail, education, and manufacturing and distribution.

Winna holds a GDPA from McGill University, a BA in Industrial Relations from McGill University and she is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Accountant (CA) in both Canada and Australia.

EY Private Equity services can help Sponsors and Portfolio Companies discover new strategies to navigate complex transformations that shape the future and unlock innovative paths to growth and value creation. The Global EY network helps source deal opportunities and combines sector insights with proven, innovative private equity strategies that have guided the world's fastest-growing companies. We help PE firms drive meaningful impact across the breadth of their fund and portfolio by helping in the creation of long-term value in an actionable, sustainable and transparent manner for all stakeholders and drive rapid change in private equity portfolio companies through strategy and transformation that delivers measurable results.

Natasha Buckley

Principal, ESG, HarbourVest Partners

Natasha Buckley joined HarbourVest in 2019 and is responsible for sustaining the Firm’s ESG strategy and partnering with our general partners, limited partners, and the Firm’s employees to embrace sustainable investing.

Natasha joined HarbourVest from Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), where she was responsible for their work in the private equity sector, developing tools and resources for PRI signatories to integrate ESG considerations into their investment processes.

Whilst at HarbourVest, Natasha served as Chair of the Initiative Climat International 2022-2024 and was featured on the PEI’s 2024 list of 50 influencers in sustainable private markets.

Natasha received a BA in History from University College London, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and has completed the University of Oxford Private Equity Programme at the Saïd Business School.

Yovanka Bylander

Chief Commercial Officer, Holtara

Yovanka joined Holtara in May 2024, having previously served as Head of Sustainability at TimesSquare Capital. Her 25-year career in financial services spans buy and sell side roles in credit and equity analysis, as well executive leadership positions within the ESG data provider space. She is a graduate of Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and has held roles at Morgan Stanley and ISS, Inc. In addition to her role at Holtara, Yovanka is a member of the Latin Corporate Directors Association, and a sustainability advisor to VTernal, a sustainable cloud computing solution.

Michael Cappucci

Managing Director - Compliance and Sustainable Investing, Harvard Management Company

Michael Cappucci is a Managing Director for Compliance and Sustainable Investing at Harvard Management Company (HMC). He joined HMC in 2012.

Michael helps to manage HMC’s sustainable investment program, where he focuses on integrating ESG factors in HMC’s private fund investments and meeting the endowment’s net zero commitment. His articles have been featured in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, NYU Journal of Law & Business, Virginia Law & Business Review, Responsible Investor, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. He is a member of the ISSB Investor Advisory Group, ILPA ESG Advisory Council, and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Hedge Fund Advisory Committee, and a past Chair of the PRI Private Equity Advisory Committee.

Thomas Carlier

Vice President, Sustainability, Investindustrial

Thomas Carlier is a Vice President, Sustainability, at Investindustrial, one of Europe's leading independent investment groups focused on taking majority or control positions, in quality leading mid-market companies.

He is responsible for the development and implementation of the firm’s Climate & Nature strategy, while also supporting sustainability initiatives within portfolio companies.. Before joining Investindustrial, Thomas was a Senior ESG Associate at the pan-European Private Equity firm PAI Partners.

Thomas holds an MSc in Corporate finance from EDHEC Business School.

Lis Castillo Nelis

Principal, Ecology and Biodiversity, Ramboll

Lis Castillo Nelis, PhD, has 20 years of biodiversity, environmental science, and project management experience, with particular expertise in analysis of the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystems. She applies her expertise in biodiversity planning and monitoring, nature-based solutions, natural capital assessments, remediation, analysis for sensitive species, ecosystem services, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards and Equator Principals biodiversity due diligence, and restoration of natural systems. Lis is also helping clients prepare for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Lis has worked on disturbances from chemical and oil spills, invasive species, grazing, erosion, and climate change. She is experienced in planning studies for restoration, management, conservation, and monitoring. Lis has worked in many areas of the United States, in Kenya, and in several countries in Latin America.

Charles Buck

President and CEO, United Church Funds

Charles Buck is President and CEO of United Church Funds (UCF), a provider of endowment and investment management services for faith-based non-profit organizations. Charles is an ordained minister of the United Church Christ, having served as a pastor and conference minister in Northern California, Hawai`i and New Hampshire prior to joining UCF in 2019. He has extensive administrative, organizational, governance and investment experience from over thirty years of work as a church senior minister, judicatory executive, and member of numerous boards of directors and investment, finance and audit committees. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, earned his Masters of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary, and holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Stanford University.

United Church Funds (ucfunds.org), established in 1909, is a leading provider of investment and endowment management services to United Church of Christ (UCC) churches and ministries, as well as all faith-based organizations. Managing over $1 billion in assets, UCF offers sustainable and responsible investment options that align with the values of its clients and provide strong, competitive returns. Working collaboratively with other investors and managers, especially through networks such as the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility and Climate Action 100+, UCF actively engages companies on a variety of issues such as climate action, environmental stewardship, racial justice, human and worker rights, and health and reproductive care.

Genie Cesar-Fabian

General Counsel/Chief Operating Officer, ILPA

Genie Cesar-Fabian joined ILPA in January 2024 as its first General Counsel. Her role expanded to include Chief Operating Officer in January 2025. Prior to joining ILPA, Genie practiced law as both outside and in-house counsel in the financial services industry for over 20 years, beginning as a securities/financial services litigator at AmLaw 100 firms. She later joined a middle market private equity firm as its first General Counsel/CCO, successfully building its legal and compliance department from the ground up. Having achieved partnership and been designated Head of ESG & Sustainability, Genie transitioned out of sponsor-side private equity and joined a tech-enabled asset manager as its first General Counsel, where she helped the leadership team lay the foundation for a legal department designed to scale. She then returned to private equity, heading to the LP side of the industry at ILPA.

In addition to her legal and financial services work, she has also served as a subject matter author for Thomson Reuters on topics relating to ESG and as a Strategic Advisor to BlueFlame AI. She is a founding member of both the St. John’s School of Law Alumnae Leadership Council, and its OUTLaws & Allies Alumni Association. Ms. Cesar-Fabian has been recognized by N.O.W. as a “Woman of Power and Influence,” by Mergers & Acquisitions as a “PE Innovator in ESG” and a “Leader in DEI,” and by Crain’s NY Business as a “Notable LGBTQ Leader & Executive.” She has also received her law school Alumni Association’s St. Thomas More award (for outstanding moral leadership over a career) and the Erica B. Fine ’82 Public Interest Champion Award (for commitment to public interest work). She regularly speaks at industry events on topics relating to women in financial services, US securities regulation, ESG, and DEI. Ms. Cesar-Fabian holds a B.A. in Politics from NYU and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law.

Emily Chien

Fellow, Harvard University

Emily Chien is a Fellow at Harvard University specializing at the intersection of AI innovation, sustainability and purposeful impact. She has guest lectured at Harvard Law School on AI Governance and was an AI/ML Fellow with the World Economic Forum. Her publications and research span climate finance and alliances, financial innovation, Gen AI and its impact on business, industry models and governance. Prior to Harvard, as a leader in IBM’s AI and sustainability practices, she led partnerships with PE and tech entrepreneurs, spearheaded novel AI systems and advised clients in sustainability risk, ESG reporting, and AI value creation.

Previously, Emily was a strategic and operating executive with Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan, Prudential Financial and American Express. She serves on the London-based IFRS Advisory Council, is a member of the Economic Club of New York, is founding co-chair of the100 Women in Finance ESG Peer Advisory Group and senior editor with the Harvard ALI Social Impact Review.

Emily earned a B.S. in Accountancy and M.S. in Accountancy, MIS and AI at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she completed a master’s thesis on AI systems in audit. She holds a U.S. patent for digital capabilities now used by Amazon.com and other global platforms.

Jeannie Cho

Director, Sustainable Investing, KKR

Jeannie Cho (New York) joined KKR in 2019 and is a member of the Sustainable Investing team. Ms. Cho helps implement the firm’s environmental, social, and governance work across its investment portfolio, including supporting diligence and portfolio management, particularly for KKR’s credit portfolios, engagement with KKR portfolio companies, and investor engagement and communications. Prior to joining KKR, she was a sustainability management and financial services associate at sustainability-focused consulting organization BSR. Earlier in her career, she was an associate at a socially responsible investment firm Domini Impact Investments. She also has experience in international human rights law and policy, having worked for organizations such as Amnesty International and Freedom House. She holds a B.B.A from Loyola Marymount University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Jeffrey Cohen

Managing Director, Head of ESG and Sustainability, Oak Hill Advisors

Jeff Cohen has management responsibility for the incorporation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters within the firm’s investment processes as well as other sustainability initiatives at Oak Hill Advisors (OHA). Mr. Cohen is a member of OHA’s ESG committee, risk committee and a member of OHA’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council. He is also Chair of the Executive Committee of the ESG Integrated Disclosure Project and member of the PRI’s Private Debt Advisory Committee. Prior to joining OHA, he was the Director of Capital Markets Integration and Head of Private Investments Initiatives at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation (SASB). In this capacity, Mr. Cohen advised alternative investors on the development and integration of ESG factors into various phases of the investment process. He started his career in the Global Markets division at Deutsche Bank. Mr. Cohen earned an M.B.A. from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and a B.B.A from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Additionally, he has earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation and is a Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting Credential holder.

Oak Hill Advisors is a leading alternatives investment firm specializing in private credit, distressed credit, structured credit, real assets, special situations, leveraged loans and high yield bonds. OHA manages $63 billion of capital across credit strategies in pooled funds, collateralized loan obligations and single investor mandates.

Chris Cote

Executive Director, MSCI Research

Chris is the Americas lead for sector and thematic research at MSCI, where he leads work on the energy transition. Prior to joining MSCI, he advised clients on global energy-market fundamentals and pricing developments. Chris has extensive experience conducting energy and climate research. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University.

Billy Cotter

Head of ESG and Solutions Specialists, Dasseti

Billy is the Head of ESG at Dasseti, a Nasdaq backed technology platform with bespoke solutions for LPs and GPs across all private asset classes. The platform leverages generative AI to assist firms in collecting data from their investments, conducting ongoing due diligence and with stakeholder reporting.

Previously with Nasdaq himself, Billy is one of Dasseti’s founding members and has overseen the creation of their ESG offering over the last 5 years. He has co-ordinated multiple implementations with key LP and GP clients and works directly with firms to ensure continuous improvement on the Dasseti offering for ESG data management.

Andrea Croslyn

EVP, Business Process & Sustainability, Bakelite Synthetics

Andrea Croslyn, Ph.D. is the Executive Vice President for Business Process and Sustainability at Bakelite Synthetics, where she leads sustainability strategy as well as improvements to global, cross-functional business processes. Before starting in this role, Dr. Croslyn spent 20 years in the chemical industry in progressive technical, business process, and leadership roles, and she holds a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. She is also the recipient of a U.S. national Jefferson Award for her volunteer work in public schools.

Adam Davies

Vice President, Private Credit, Malk Partners

Adam is a Vice President at Malk Partners and leads its Private Credit ESG advisory team. Since joining Malk in 2019, Adam has supported on and led over 400 ESG diligence engagements across asset classes. Adam oversees Malk’s relationships with multiple private credit GPs across sub-strategies, with support ranging across ESG program setup, team training, fund strategy and investor-facing content, regulatory alignment (i.e., SFDR), and framework advisory. Adam’s expertise includes developing and supporting fit-for-purpose ESG programs that balance sustainability integration in low- and no-control contexts. This is reinforced in a whitepaper he co-authored: ESG Integration in Private Credit. Before Malk, Adam was an investment banking analyst at UBS in New York. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Analytics from Boston College.

Allegra Day

Managing Director and Head of Sustainability, Cinven

Allegra is a member of the Portfolio team.

Allegra was previously a Manager in the Climate Change team at CDC Group where she led ESG value creation projects with portfolio companies and implemented the firm’s climate change strategy with a focus on the just transition to a net zero economy. Prior to CDC, Allegra advised businesses and investors on their sustainability strategies at Social Ventures Australia and was a commercial lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills and Norton Rose in Sydney, Australia.

Allegra has an MBA from University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Sydney.

She joined Cinven in 2021.

Cinven

Cinven is an international private equity firm with a 30 year track record, focused on supporting companies that want to step-change their growth. Cinven invests across 6 sectors – Business Services, Consumer, Industrial, Financial Services, Healthcare and TMT.

Rhiannon Davies

Founder and Managing Partner, Sandpiper Ventures

Rhiannon has created, acquired and led companies in Europe, Asia, South and North America, including the GVSC BV, which became a $2Billion revenue subsidiary of multinational eyecare giant GrandVision. She was a member of the Executive and Board of Directors that took PE-backed GrandVision public on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, raising $1.5 billion in one of the top 10 global IPOs of the year.

An active investor and mentor, Rhiannon is motivated by the enormous untapped opportunity of investing in women-owned technology companies as an underrepresented demographic that is overperforming. Rhiannon is a Founding and Managing Partner of Sandpiper Ventures, a seed/Series A stage VC fund investing in technology companies.

Rhiannon has been named one of the Most Influential Women in Tech by DMZ and CDL Mentor of the Year in the Supply Chain and AI Sector.

Deike Diers

Partner, Sustainability for Private Equity and Financial Investors, Bain & Company

Deike Diers leads our EMEA Sustainability efforts for private equity and financial investors. Over the course of more than 12 years in consulting, Deike has gained broad experience working with financial investors on due diligence work, value creation plans, and fund strategies.

Specifically, Deike supports financial investors in integrating responsible investment practices into their investment value chains from climate strategy definition, operationalizing net zero commitments, to Sustainability value driver identification in due diligence and value creation planning, as well as preparing for a successful exit. She is co-leading Bain’s support to the SMI and iCI initiative on the private equity decarbonization roadmap (PMDR).

Aside from her client work, Deike is highly involved in our diversity and Women at Bain efforts and is our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion lead for Bain’s Zurich office.

She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and bachelor’s degrees from both the University of Portsmouth and Münster University of Applied Sciences (European Business Programme).

Nick Dilks

Managing Partner, Ecosystem Investment Partners

Nick Dilks has 29 years of experience in environmental offsets markets, conservation real estate investing and private equity fund management. Prior to co-founding Ecosystem Investment Partners in 2006, a real assets private equity firm with over $1B in assets under management, Nick was the Vice President for Real Estate with The Conservation Fund where, during his 10-year career, he completed some of The Conservation Fund’s most complex and innovative transactions while helping to conserve over two million acres worth $1 billion nationwide. Nick is a nationally recognized leader in land conservation finance and real estate. Nick was a founding member of the Board of the Chesapeake Conservancy for 10 years and in 2019, he helped found a new organization, the Forever Maryland Foundation, which supports land trust across the state. Mr. Dilks holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University.

Mackenzie Drutowski

ESG & Impact Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Mackenzie Drutowski is an ESG & Impact partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mackenzie advises private equity firms and public and private companies on complex and evolving legal issues relating to ESG, sustainability and impact, including reporting and disclosure, offering and marketing documents, due diligence, regulatory requirements, program development, policies and procedures, investor demands, voluntary frameworks (including the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI)) and other ESG risks and strategic opportunities. This experience includes work on a number of renewable energy and energy transition-focused funds and transactions and counseling on public benefit and diversity-related business certifications. Mackenzie’s ESG & Impact practice builds on her five years of experience working on complex domestic and cross-border transactions in the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group.

Peter Dunbar

Principal – Responsible Investment, StepStone Group

Mr. Dunbar is a member of the Responsible Investing team at StepStone, focusing on ESG integration across asset classes and investment strategies.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. Dunbar was Head of Private Equity at the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), where he led the PRI’s work on private equity and venture capital. Previously, he was a Senior Manager at Capital Group working in their emerging markets private equity business, focusing on ESG and investor relations.

Mr. Dunbar received a BSc in Human and Physical Geography from the University of Reading.

Michael Dymond

Senior Portfolio Manager, Private Equity, APG Asset Management

Michael Dymond is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Global Private Equity group of APG Asset Management in New York. Prior to joining APG, Michael worked in private equity at USS Investment Management and Pinebridge Investments in London, and at Fortis Bank in Brussels.

Michael Eisenberg

Value Creation Lead, ERM

Michael Eisenberg co-leads ERM’s global private markets ESG & impact value creation team. He focuses on working with GPs and their portfolio companies on driving top and bottom-line growth though their ESG programs and initiatives. The private markets value creation team focuses on developing robust ESG commercial strategies, implementation of those strategies in close partnership with GP portfolio operations teams, and supporting portfolio companies on exit preparation projects.

Before ERM, Michael most recently worked at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, where he was Head of ESG Integration and focused on the Fund’s private markets investments. Prior to that he worked at two other consulting firms and began his career on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

ERM

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Saleh ElHattab

Founder and CEO, Gravity

Saleh ElHattab is the Founder and CEO of Gravity, a carbon accounting and energy management platform that enables PE firms and their portfolio companies to align sustainability programs with evergreen business priorities. With automated data collection and carbon reporting features and project management tools to identify and execute cost-effective energy efficiency projects, Gravity helps companies meet disclosure requirements, lower operating costs, and win new business.

Prior to founding Gravity, Saleh began creating software for the physical world at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as Head of Solution Architecture for Salesforce IoT, where he scaled the global pre- and post-sale technical services organization. Later, as a Director of Product at Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Saleh scaled their Fleet Safety product to a flagship offering and developed their Connected Sites product to expand into facilities and warehouses.

Kim Erle

Managing Director and Global Head of ESG, H.I.G. Capital

Kim is a Managing Director and Global Head of ESG. She is based in H.I.G.’s New York office and focuses on integrating environmental, social and governance best practices to drive measurable long-term value for H.I.G. and its investors.

Kim has over 25 years of experience working in financial services and sustainability. Before joining H.I.G., Kim was a Managing Director and Head of Strategy and Impact at NY Green Bank, where her role included measurement, management and communication of the firm’s environmental and social impact. Prior to NY Green Bank, Kim was a portfolio manager of RREEF Retrofit Partners, a sustainable real estate fund at Deutsche Asset Management, and was a partner at Mitchell Madison Group, a global management consultancy.

Kim earned a BS in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, an MA in International Affairs and Economics from John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, where she was valedictorian of her class. Kim has earned a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute and serves on the Advisory Council of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative investment firm with $67 billion of equity capital under management,* with a focus on the mid cap segment of the market.

The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, real estate, direct lending, infrastructure, special situations debt, and growth-stage healthcare. We partner with committed management teams and entrepreneurs and help build businesses of significant value. Our team of over 500 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology and financial management experience, enabling us to drive value creation in our portfolio companies. Since 1993, we have invested in more than 400 companies with combined revenues in excess of $53 billion. We invest in companies throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America and have offices in Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta, and affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan and Paris in Europe as well as Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Latin America, Dubai in the Middle East, and Hong Kong in Asia.

*Based on total capital commitments managed by H.I.G. Capital and affiliates.

Robert Esposito

Managing Director and Senior Counsel, ESG, Apollo Global Management

Robert joined Apollo in 2020 in the Legal Department and is the firm's Senior ESG Counsel.

Prior to that, Robert was an associate in the Private Funds Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Previously, he was an M&A and private funds associate in the New York offices of two international law firms.

Robert has also served as a Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business at New York University Law School, and as a professional lecturer in law on the adjunct faculty at The George Washington University Law School.

Robert received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, and his. LL.M., with highest honors, in International and Comparative Law from The George Washington University Law School.

Colin Etnire

Head of Sustainability, BC Partners

Colin joined BC Partners in 2020. He is Head of Sustainability based in New York.

Previously, Colin worked as an ESG Analyst at The Carlyle Group, where he worked for the firm’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. Prior to this, he worked for the New Hampshire Democratic Party and interned at the White House.

Since inception, BC Partners Private Equity has completed 123 private equity investments in companies with a total enterprise value of over €161 billion and is currently investing its eleventh private equity fund.

Amanda Feldman

Managing Director & Head of Impact, Sonen Capital

At Sonen, Amanda Feldman works with endowments, family offices and institutions to measure, manage, and maximize the impact of their portfolios. Sonen Capital is a trusted partner of choice for asset owners seeking unbiased and tailored investment solutions that reflect their unique financial and impact goals.

Before joining Sonen, she co-founded the Impact Management Project, and served as a Director at Bridges Fund Management and Volans. Her most recent work focused on supporting the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on managing impact disclosures on the Sustainable Development Goals, and leading G7 and G20 consultations, including her role as the Technical Lead on Harmonization, Transparency & Integrity for the 2021 G7 Impact Taskforce.

She is a co-founder of the Predistribution Initiative, mentors European startups at maze impact, and serves as a Non-Executive Audit Committee Member at the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG). Amanda holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the London School of Economics.

Letitia Ferrier Webster

Head of Sustainability, GSAM Alternatives

Letitia is a managing director in the Sustainable Investment Group and chief sustainability officer for the Asset Management Private Markets Division. She serves on the Asset Management Division Sustainability Council. Letitia joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2020. Letitia started and leads the Sustainability platform for the Private Markets division which oversees over $450 billion in AUM. She leads the strategy and impact efforts, supports sourcing, portfolio engagement and sits on the Investment Committee for the Horizon Environment and Climate Fund, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in environmental and climate solutions to support the transition to a more sustainable economy and planet.

Prior to joining the firm, Letitia was chief sustainability officer and partner at Mission Driven Capital Partners (MDCP), a private equity firm that invests in sustainable products and solutions to accelerate corporate sustainability efforts. Prior to MDCP, she served as global vice president of sustainability and head of purpose for the VF Corporation, the Fortune 500 parent company of brands, including The North Face, Timberland and Vans. She created the VF Made for Change Sustainability Strategy and led the effort to create and integrate a first-ever, enterprise-wide purpose.

Earlier in her career, Letitia spent twelve years at The North Face as senior director of marketing, where she focused on sports marketing, sustainability, corporate partnerships, and outdoor participation.

Letitia serves as a director on the boards of Recover LLC, Metiri, LLC, and Impact Nano LLC.

Letitia earned a BA from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Pinchot University

Jennifer Flood

Head of Sustainability (North America), Investindustrial

Jennifer joined Investindustrial’s Investor Relations team in 2014 and has been managing all ESG issues at both the Firm and portfolio company level since 2016. Jennifer majored in Business and has an MBA from INSEAD. In 2021 she obtained a Sustainability Certificate from NYU Stern School of Business.

Investindustrial

Investindustrial is a leading European group of independently managed investment, holding and advisory companies with €13 billion of raised fund capital. For more than 30 years, it has been providing mid-market companies with capital, industrial expertise, operational focus and global platforms to accelerate sustainable value creation and international expansion. With long-term sustainability deeply embedded into the Firm’s core approach, its mission is to actively contribute to the development of the companies in which it invests, by creating growth opportunities and offering global support through its offices in London, Lugano, Luxembourg, Madrid, New York, Paris,Shanghai and Abu Dhabi. Investindustrial has been a B Corp certified company since 2020., carbon neutral as a firm since 2009 and for its shareholding in its portfolio companies since 2015.

Sylvain Forté

Co-founder ＆ CEO, SESAMm

Sylvain is the co-founder and CEO of SESAMm, a leading company in AI-driven ESG and risk analytics, delivering global investment firms and corporations data-driven insight and ESG controversies. With 6 offices including Paris, New York, London, and Tokyo, SESAMm works with major banks, private equity firms, corporate and asset management clients around the world. Holding a double degree in engineering made in France and Germany, Sylvain’s passion for artificial intelligence and finance led him to create SESAMm in 2014.

SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in ESG controversy, using generative AI. We automate ESG monitoring and due diligence on public and private assets. We work with Carlyle, Warburg, Natixis, RBI, Oddo, ERM, Fitch and many more. SESAMm has raised $50 million from renowned investors.

Madeleine Gee

Portfolio Manager, APG Asset Management US., Inc.

Madeleine Gee is a Portfolio Manager at Asset Management US Inc. in the Global Private Equity group.

Prior to joining APG, Ms. Gee worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse in New York. At Credit Suisse, Madeleine focused on executing buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, as well as underwriting debt and equity offerings, for clients in the Power, Utilities and Renewables spaces.

Ms. Gee holds a B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated cum laude.

Lindsay Gibson

Vice President, Permira

Lindsay joined Permira in May 2023 and leads Sustainability for North America. She is responsible for sustainability integration into the investment lifecycle.
Prior to joining Permira, Lindsay spent 3.5 years at Blackstone, most recently as a Director on the ESG team. Prior to that she was at Domini Impact Investments.

Chris Gorell Barnes

Founding Partner, Ocean14 Capital

Chris Gorell Barnes is a social entrepreneur focused on solving one of the world’s greatest threats the crisis in the oceans. He is Founding partner of Ocean 14 capital a €200M leading impact fund focused on ensuring a healthy ocean for everyone through a sustainable ＆ regenerative blue economy and co-founder of the Blue marine foundation a world leading marine charity creating marine reserves and establishing sustainable models of fishing ＆ innovative ocean conservation all over the world.

Brooke Guven

Managing Director and Head of ESG & Sustainability, Cerberus Capital Management

Ms. Guven serves as the Head of Environmental, Social, Governance & Sustainability for Cerberus. In her role, Ms. Guven coordinates the Firm’s Environmental, Social, Governance (“ESG”) and sustainability efforts across all desks and investments.

Ms. Guven previously served as a Senior Legal Researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of the Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, as a senior associate in the banking group at Hogan Lovells US LLP, as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Government of Liberia, and as an associate in the banking group at McGuireWoods LLP.

Ms. Guven graduated from Northwestern University, and received a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a M.A. in International Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin, and a LL.M from New York University School of Law, where she was also a Human Rights Scholar. She has served as an adjunct professor teaching a course on climate change law at policy in Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies Sustainability Management Program.

Imani Hamilton

Circular Economy + Resource Management Practice Lead, Americas, Ramboll

Imani Hamilton is the Ramboll Practice Lead for Circular Economy + Resource Management Services in the Americas and brings 13+ years of experience focused on sustainable design consulting, building on her architectural design background. She optimizes for low waste, low carbon, and low toxin outcomes for product or building design, manufacturing, construction, supply chains, and resource management. She leverages carbon and LCA accounting, R+D methodologies, and sustainable design principles to inform tailored, actionable strategies for her clients.

Steve Hatfield

Head of US ESG, The Carlyle Group

Steve Hatfield is Co-Head of Sustainability at Carlyle. He leads sustainability integration throughout the investment lifecycle across the US portfolios, including partnering with investment teams and portfolio companies to drive total business value through targeted sustainability initiatives. Additionally, he leads the GHG and ESG reporting team focusing on firmwide regulatory reporting and assurance.

Mr. Hatfield joined Carlyle from Cerberus Capital Management, where he developed and led the ESG portfolio company engagement strategy that included a program to systematically identify and execute opportunities to drive commercial value. Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Hatfield advised clients on a wide range of ESG topics in PwC’s Sustainable Business Solutions practice. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business and Renewable Energy from Marylhurst University.

Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Investment Solutions. With $276 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2021, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs nearly 1,800 people in 27 offices across five continents. Further information is available at carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on Twitter @OneCarlyle.

Marion Hayes

Senior Managing Director, Head of Responsible Investing, Arsenal Capital Partners

Ms. Hayes is a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Responsible Investing of Arsenal where she leads and oversees the execution of Arsenal’s responsible investing program and new ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Arsenal in 2022, Ms. Hayes was a Senior Vice President, ESG Management at Brookfield Asset Management. Before joining Brookfield’s ESG team, she was part of Brookfield’s branding and communications, private funds, and investor relations teams. Ms. Hayes started her career as a Marketing Associate at Allianz Global Investors.

Claire Hedley

Head of ESG, 17Capital

Claire Hedley is Head of ESG at 17Capital where she is responsible for ESG and sustainability strategy across the firm’s investments and operations. Prior to joining 17Capital in June 2022, Claire worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management for 15 years working in both London and New York in their Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group. Prior to leaving GS, Claire led the ESG & Impact Client Strategy Group in London, where she was responsible for driving GS Asset Management’s client facing and commercial ESG efforts in EMEA. Claire is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) UK, a charity focused on ocean research, conservation, and education. Claire has a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Leeds (UK).

17Capital is a private credit manager, specializing in NAV finance for the private equity industry. It provides non-dilutive capital to high-quality private equity management companies, funds, and institutional investors as part of their toolkit for value creation and portfolio management. Founded in 2008, 17Capital has completed over 100 investments and 50 exits, deploying more than $14 billion since inception. 17Capital has raised $13 billion across six successive funds and mandates.

Greg Hershman

Head of North America Policy, Principles for Responsible Investment

Greg Hershman is Head of North America Policy at the Principles for Responsible Investment, based in Washington, D.C. Greg has been with the PRI for four years, leading their US Policy work for the past three. He spent six years in the U.S. Senate in various roles including working for Senator Tom Carper (Del.), on the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Greg received his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business with a focus on corporate sustainability and renewable energy markets and received his BA from Franklin & Marshall College.

Samantha Hill

Head of Sustainability Integration, CPP Investments

Samantha is a part of the Office of the Chief Sustainability Officer and is responsible for integrating our sustainability insights and practices into our public and private investment activities.

Samantha has defined, led, and executed sustainability-related strategies for value creation and preservation across all asset classes and ownership structures. She is recognized for her expertise in environmental, social, and governance intersectionality and building the capacity of organizations to integrate material sustainability considerations into core business practices.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2007, Samantha worked in the Commercial Banking division at CIBC in senior debt financing for national accounts and real estate, and with RoyNat Capital Inc.

Samantha holds an MBA from Dalhousie University in Finance and Environmental Management.

Jonathan Hirschtritt

Managing Director, Sustainability ＆ Impact Investing, GCM Grosvenor

Mr. Hirschtritt leads our firmwide Sustainable ＆ Impact investment efforts. He partners closely with the strategy investment teams to drive deal flow, deepen relationships with sustainably focused managers and evolve assessment frameworks and reporting. Mr. Hirschtritt collaborates with clients to design and implement customized Sustainable and Impact solutions that prioritize the themes most important to them. At a firm level, Mr. Hirschtritt leads Sustainability strategy and product development and ensures alignment with evolving industry best practices. He works closely with GCM Grosvenor’s senior leadership team to increase coordination and implementation of the firm’s Sustainability strategy and Sustainable Investing platform. Mr. Hirschtritt also serves as a member of the Sustainability Committee, Diversity Equity ＆ Inclusion Committee and Valuation Committee. He holds an ESG Certificate from the CFA Institute and a certificate from the Sustainable Finance ＆ Investment Program at the Yale School of Management. Previously, Mr. Hirschtritt worked with senior leadership as part of GCM Grosvenor’s Strategy ＆ Corporate Development team leading organic and inorganic product development before eventually serving as Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Mr. Hirschtritt was a Partner at Sheffield Asset Management, LLC, where he served as a senior investment professional and was actively involved in the firm’s day to day management. Prior to joining Sheffield Asset Management, Mr. Hirschtritt was an Associate at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, where he worked as an investment professional on their Event Driven Equities fund. Mr. Hirschtritt began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Bear, Stearns ＆ Co., Inc. He graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Arts in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.

GCM Grosvenor

GCM Grosvenor (Nasdaq: GCMG) is a global alternative asset management solutions provider with approximately $77 billion in assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return investment strategies. The firm has specialized in alternatives for more than 50 years and is dedicated to delivering value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform. GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of approximately 540 professionals serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney. For more information, visit: gcmgrosvenor.com.

Benjamin Hogan

Director / Private Equity, Blue Earth Capital

Ben is a Director at Blue Earth Capital. Ben has been active in zero-carbon transition investments for more than a decade across both private and public markets. Ben led investments on behalf of Blue Earth into TS Conductor, AMP, Sense, CarbonCure, and SWTCH. Before joining Blue Earth Capital, Ben was a Director at Inherent Group where he led investments into companies enabling the transition to a lower-carbon economy. Prior to Inherent Group, Ben led energy investing at Orange Capital, a special situations and activist hedge fund. Prior to Orange Capital, Ben was a Principal at Asset Management Finance, a growth equity subsidiary of Credit Suisse. Ben received a BSc. in Economics from Duke University and an MSc. in Sustainability Science from Columbia University.

Japen Hollist

Head of Sustainability, Customer Advisory, SAP North America

Japen Hollist is SAP’s Head of Sustainability, Customer Advisory for North America. He guides a team tasked with supporting and enabling the North American field force to help customers understand and use SAP sustainability solutions. Prior to SAP, Japen served as a Procurement Officer in a Fortune 500 insurance company. While there, he served on their CSR Committee helping the company to be ranked on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and becoming ISO 14001 certified. Japen is a graduate of the Harvard University Extension School with a master’s degree in sustainability.

Mary Beth Houlihan

ESG & Impact Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Mary Beth Houlihan is an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on advising clients with respect to complex and dynamic ESG issues, including legal and regulatory compliance considerations, investor demands, and voluntary reporting frameworks.

Mary Beth is the go-to ESG counsel for numerous asset managers, providing them with advice on their firm-wide ESG policies and programs, commitments and disclosures, fund-level ESG strategies and communications, investor negotiations, and ESG-regulatory compliance and enforcement. This includes both public and private asset managers, with a particular focus on energy, infrastructure and real-estate strategies.

Greer Howard-Tabah

Vice President, Oaktree Capital

Ms. Howard-Tabah is a vice president in the ESG group and focuses on ESG integration in the investment process. She also leads the firm’s Sustainability Network. Prior to joining Oaktree in 2022, Ms. Howard-Tabah spent six years at Morgan Stanley in ESG capital markets and investment grade credit trading. She received a B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Middlebury College. Ms. Howard-Tabah holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG investing.

Dan Jacobs

Principal, Sustainability, CD&R

Dan joined CD&R in 2010 after serving as a consultant to the Firm for several years. He is a member of the global external affairs team, focusing on sustainability. Since joining the Firm, he has helped to build the Firm’s global investor relations and external affairs functions and has been one of the primary architects of the Firm’s sustainability strategy, developing key partnerships and collaborating with investment teams and portfolio companies to support sustainability value creation initiatives. Prior to CD&R, he led the private equity group at Broadgate Consultants, a financial consulting firm. Dan has an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and B.A. in Economics from Columbia College.

Chandini Jain

Co-Founder & CEO, Auquan

Chandini Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Auquan, the market leader in AI agents for deep work in financial services transforming deal sourcing, due diligence, monitoring, sustainability, and compliance workflows. Driven by a mission to liberate financial professionals from mundane data tasks and bring meaning back to their work, she founded Auquan after spending 10 years in global finance as a trader at Optiver and Deutsche Bank. She is a recognized expert and speaker in the field of using AI for investment and ESG risk management. Jain holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering/computational science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.

Chris Janiec

Americas Editor, Agri Investor

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.

Agri Investor is the dedicated source of insight and intelligence for private investment in agribusiness and agriculture globally. It is relevant to institutional investors, asset managers, advisors and operators focused on agri investment.

Angela Jhanji

Managing Director, EQT Partners

Angela joined EQT Partners in 2022 to lead Sustainability Integration for EQT's Private Capital business line. Her role is to drive sustainability value creation through the investment lifecycle by supporting ESG due diligence and the portfolio company integration of sustainability into the full potential plan.

Angela spent over a decade and a half as an operator helping companies to realize sustainability value creation through growth and efficiency levers at Accenture Strategy and Grant Thornton. She has worked with public and private companies in the sectors of healthcare, software, technology, professional services and consumer goods in both the UK and United States. Angela has also worked international bodies such as the World Economic Forum, World Bank and United Nations to drive the sustainability agenda at the intergovernmental level.

Angela graduated from Columbia University from School of International Public Affairs with a Masters in Public Administration, where she now teaches as an adjunct professor at the Climate School on the topic of Sustainability Value Creation in Private Markets.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT today has EUR 113 billion in fee-generating assets under management, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices in 24 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has close to 1,800 employees.

Chase Jordan

Global Private Equity ESG Leader, EY

Chase Jordan is the EY Global Private Equity ESG Leader. Chase has a strong track record of advising PE firms on creating and protecting value through ESG management. Working with some of the largest PE clients globally, together with his team, he works across a fund’s lifecycle from fund strategy, to due diligence, portfolio value creation, and exit readiness. Describing himself as a sustainability pragmatist, Chase is passionate about the unique opportunity the PE sector has, to address sustainability challenges. He helps bring the best of the EY organization to bear by integrating operational findings with customer insights to achieve sustainability transformations of clients. Previously Chase was on the founding management team of a leading advisory firm, and prior to that was with a management consulting company. Chase earned his bachelor’s degree in Government with significant studies in Economics and finance from the College of William and Mary.

Brett Juliano

Head of Sustainability, Strategic Resource Group, THL Partners

As Head of Sustainability, Brett is responsible for leading THL’s comprehensive sustainability efforts at both the firm level and across the portfolio.

Before joining the THL team, Brett held several roles at MSCI, most recently as Executive Director, where he led several strategic ESG client partnerships and a team dedicated to ESG and climate strategy for many of the leading asset managers in the US.

Prior to MSCI, he spent three years leading an international development organization that provides safe drinking water in Nepal. Brett holds a BA in Economics, International Relations and French from Connecticut College, and completed the Business Bridge Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Brett is also a CFA® charterholder, CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charterholder, and has earned the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Pamela Kauppila

Director, ESG Engagement, New Mountain Capital

Pamela Kauppila is Director of ESG Engagement at New Mountain Capital, a NY-based, mid-market private equity firm. She works across the Private Equity, Credit and Net Lease strategies but focuses primarily on the PE portfolio companies, helping them to reduce risk and identify value creation opportunities. She began working with New Mountain in 2020 as an ESG Consultant and joined full-time in 2021. Previously, she was an equity analyst at Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. where she analyzed growth stocks across a range of industry sectors. Prior to that, she worked at Goldman Sachs in the AIMS Private Equity Group, a fund-of-funds. She started her career at BNP Paribas, working with the Distressed Debt and Leveraged Lending teams. Ms. Kauppila earned an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University and an M.S. in Sustainability Management at Columbia University.

Sandra Kartt

Deputy Chief Investment Officer, ImpactAssets Capital Partners

At ImpactAssets Capital Partners, Sandra leads the Investments team, overseeing investment research and portfolio management. Her team is responsible for investment sourcing, due diligence and investment selection of impact investment opportunities that seek to generate both financial and social or environmental returns. Most recently, Sandra worked for Developing World Markets, where she spearheaded their initial private equity valuation work before focusing on private debt investments in financial inclusion-focused businesses throughout Asia, Africa & Latin America. Sandra began her career as a sell-side equity research analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods, a boutique investment bank, covering the U.S. banking industry. Sandra received an MA in Economics from New York University, a BS in Economics from Louisiana State University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation.

Julia Lamorelle

Head of GP Advisory, Malk Partners

Julia began her ESG career in Private Equity due diligence, supporting hundreds of transactions across a range of industries. As Senior Vice President, Julia now oversees Malk’s ESG GP Advisory practice, supporting all asset classes including Private Equity, Growth/Venture, Private Credit and Multi-Strategy. Julia works closely with GPs to intentionally integrate ESG into their investment lifecycle to better drive capital to responsible investments. She has extensive experience in standing up and supporting GPs’ ESG programs including, but not limited to, UN PRI reporting, DEI initiatives, LP reporting, framework alignment and ESG data.

Prior to joining Malk, Julia led a technology startup in Austin that helped teens learn programming skills (e.g. Python, Javascript, etc.).

Malk Partners was founded in 2009 with the recognition that even the most discerning investors and well-managed companies need direction to leverage ESG management best practices. Today Malk Partners advises dozens of the world’s leading alternatives managers investing across private equity, growth equity, venture capital, credit, real estate, and infrastructure. Malk Partners is headquartered in La Jolla, California with a second office located in Manhattan.

Malk Partners’ reputation is built from the firm’s singular focus on integrating responsible investment practices into private markets investors’ investment strategies. The foundation of a strong responsible investing program is built on assessing environmental, social and governance factors pre-investment to establish a baseline from which material ESG issues are mitigated and monitored on a go-forward basis. Malk takes a right-sized approach for each client’s unique investment – tailored to risk exposure and their ability to effect change. Malk aligns with investors’ existing processes, collaborates closely with other vendors during the diligence process, calibrates findings to a high materiality threshold, and works efficiently with management and deal teams; ensuring integration of ESG management practices are accretive to a firm’s investment process while minimizing burden on busy investment professionals.

Malk Partners has advised many of the world’s most renowned and respected private market investors. Malk Partners helps clients to define ESG and impact goals, develop programs for long-term success, and as the bedrock of strong ESG management and impact initiatives – integrate best practices into the investment process by conducting ESG due diligence review and supporting portfolio companies in the ongoing mitigation of ESG risks. Malk Partners’ fully customized services and solutions to ESG management and impact investing keep managers doing what they do best: buying, growing, and selling businesses.

Malk has developed ESG programs for dozens of private market investors. Our team conducts ESG and impact due diligence reviews on hundreds of transactions per year, typically ranging from $25 million to $2 billion in enterprise value.

Philip Larrieu

Stewardship Investment Officer, Oregon State Treasury

Philip Larrieu is Investment Officer of Stewardship for the Oregon State Treasury. With a wealth of experience, Philip is a highly qualified investment professional with a deep commitment to sustainability and ESG. Philip leads the engagement, ESG integration, and stewardship initiatives for the Oregon State Treasury.

Prior to joining the Oregon State Treasury Philip spent 17 years in the Sustainable Investments and Stewardship Strategies group at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) focusing on sustainability investing, activist investing, geopolitical risk, and ESG risk oversight.

Philip holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Political Science from Allegheny College, received his CFA Charter in 2008, CAIA charter in 2016, and FRM in 2020.

Barrett Lawson

Director, Transactions & Sustainable Finance, Anthesis

Barrett leads the Transactions & Sustainable Finance team at Anthesis and in this role helps investment managers, and their portfolio companies, create value by developing and implementing effective sustainability programs.

Barrett has played an important role in enabling the private equity industry advance climate practices. He served as lead author for the Private Equity component of the Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) and has led development of Anthesis’ Carbon Financial Insights Tool (CarbonFIT), which delivers insights on portfolio company-specific decarbonization pathways. He also oversees delivery of GHG inventories and climate risk assessments for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Anthesis, Barrett spent six years as part of PwC’s sustainability practice and worked at Esty Environmental Partners before that.

Johannes Lenhard

Co-Founder & Co-Director, VentureESG

Dr Johannes Lenhard is the co-director of VentureESG. He teaches at the University of Cambridge and is the author of three books, including Better Venture, on DEI in VC.

Joshua Lichtenstein

Partner, Head of ERISA Fiduciary Practice, Ropes & Gray

Josh Lichtenstein is an ERISA and benefits partner in New York who heads the firm’s ERISA fiduciary practice, He is widely viewed as an industry leader helping asset managers and asset owners navigate the increasing volume of conflicting state ESG and anti-ESG legislation (approximately 300 laws and proposals), as well as the complex ESG-related investment requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor applicable to U.S. pension funds. Josh developed and continues to supervise the team that maintains Ropes & Gray’s award-winning, interactive 50-State ESG tracker, a comprehensive and unique resource in the market that is updated regularly and that many of the largest asset managers in the world rely on as a key part of their compliance infrastructure.

Tina Linger

Head of Human Resources, GI Partners

Tina Linger is a Head of Human Resources at GI Partners. She leads the firm’s efforts to attract, develop, and retain world-class investment and fund operations professionals. Ms. Linger brings deep experience as a human resources executive in the finance and professional services sectors, having overseen global and domestic HR functions at several leading firms. Prior to joining GI Partners, Ms. Linger led HR and talent management at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Kobre & Kim, Third Point, and Bear Stearns Asset Management. She prides herself on helping firms establish a supportive and rewarding work environment and promoting best practices to improve employee productivity and well-being.

Education
• M.A. from Columbia University
• B.S. from Cornell University

Michael Littenberg

Partner, Global Head of ESG, CSR and Business and Human Rights Practice, Ropes & Gray

For more than 30 years, leading public and private companies, asset managers and trade associations have turned to Michael Littenberg for advice on M&A, capital markets, corporate governance and ESG, CSR and business and human rights matters.

Michael has handled hundreds of M&A and capital markets transactions over the course of his career. These transactions have involved companies across a diverse range of industries totaling tens of billions of dollars of value.

Michael is the global head of the firm’s ESG, CSR & Business and Human Rights compliance practice. He is widely recognized as a leading ESG, CSR and business and human rights practitioner, having advised clients on compliance requirements and stakeholder expectations for his entire career. Michael is highly ranked for both ESG and business and human rights by Chambers Global, among other accolades and awards. Clients note that Michael “melds subject matter expertise, awareness of industry practice and a sense of practicality in his counseling.” Michael has authored hundreds of thought leadership pieces on a diverse range of ESG, CSR and Business and Human Rights topics, and is often quoted in the media.

Michael is also a steering committee member of R&G Insights Lab, a differentiated Ropes & Gray solution for corporate governance and risk in complex business environments.

Marc Lino

Senior Partner, Global Sustainability Leader for Private Equity and Financial Investors, Bain & Company

Marc Lino leads our global Sustainability efforts for private equity and financial investors. In this capacity, Marc works with our clients across the investing value chain – from fundraising and strategy through diligence and ownership, and eventual exit – to help clients achieve their sustainability objectives and capture economic returns.

He has over 20 years of consulting experience. Marc has advised private equity clients on numerous commercial and operational diligences and works alongside portfolio company management teams to drive value creation strategies. He advises clients across a variety of industries, with a focus on business services and technology. He also teams with clients to address a wide array of business issues relating to strategy, M&A, full potential and enterprise transformation.

Bain and Company

Bain and Company is a global top management consulting firm, and the world’s leading advisor to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders. The firm’s PE practice is more than triple the size of the next-largest consulting firm serving the industry. Bain and Company’s work with PE firms spans fund types – buyout, infrastructure, real estate and debt, as well as hedge funds – and many of the most prominent institutional investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments and family investment offices. Bain and Company supports its clients across a broad range of objectives that include deal generation, due diligence, immediate post-acquisition, ongoing value addition, exit, firm strategy and operations, and institutional investor strategy.

Annie Longsworth

Partner, Communications Lead, ESG & Value Creation, ERM Shelton

Annie Longsworth, Partner, is the global lead for brand, sales & marketing, and communications for the private markets ESG & impact value creation team. A pioneer in sustainability communications, Annie has helped shape the value of integrating communications into corporate sustainability strategy over the past 15+ years. Prior to joining ERM Shelton in April 2024, she founded the award-winning Siren Agency after three years as CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S. Earlier in her career, Annie spent nine years as President of Cohn & Wolfe, San Francisco, where she launched and led the global sustainability practice. She has contributed to sustainability strategies with clients across many sectors, including financial services, hospitality, apparel, and B2B through reporting, campaign development, employee engagement, and earned media. Annie is a lifetime member of the Sustainable Brands Advisory Board and was recognized by SustainabilityX Magazine as a Global 50 Women in Sustainability in 2024.

Ryan Malloy

Sustainable Investing Research Analyst, Fiduciary Trust International (FTI)

Ryan is a Sustainable Investing Research Analyst at Fiduciary Trust International (FTI), the $40 billion wealth management subsidiary of Franklin Templeton. He helps lead due diligence on prospective investments and works alongside portfolio managers to construct impact/sustainable portfolios. Ryan also researches thematic investment opportunities and contributes to the firm’s shareholder engagement efforts. He completed the CFA Institute’s Certificate in ESG Investing and is a CFA Level III candidate.

Ryan previously worked on a multibillion-dollar investment team at Goldman Sachs and First Republic that catered to institutional-sized clients, including those focused on sustainable investing. Outside of work, Ryan sits on the junior board of DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI), which provides community-based youth programs including extended-day charter schools and sports leagues. DREAMs services are geared towards underprivileged students and those with special needs.

Laura McMullen

Head of Portfolio Sustainability – Private Equity, Five Arrows Principal Investments

Laura is Head of Sustainability and Impact in the Portfolio Operations Group, based in London.

Prior to joining Five Arrows, Laura was ESG Director at Cinven, where she led the firm’s sustainability strategy. Previously, Laura worked as an independent sustainability consultant, Global Head of Sustainability at Compass Group, Business Development Director at Funding Circle, and Associate Vice President at Macquarie Capital Partners.

Laura graduated with an MBA from INSEAD and a Master’s degree from Oxford University

Radhika Mehrotra

Associate Director of Capital Markets, North America, CDP

Radhika Mehrotra is the Associate Director of Capital Markets for CDP North America. Radhika leads on capital markets engagement for CDP North America and is responsible for driving financial institutions’ interactions with CDP data through portfolio assessment tools, corporate engagement and thought leadership opportunities. She is also leading the development of a disclosure and data solution for private market investors.

Dan Mistler

Partner, Head of ESG Advisory, ACA Group

Dan Mistler is a Partner and Global Head of ESG at ACA Group. ACA is a global governance, regulatory, and compliance advisor, which provides the finance community with ESG support. Dan founded and built the ESG practice at ACA, which has supported approximately 500 asset managers and portfolio companies with ESG advice and ESG data/monitoring technology. Prior to ACA, Dan held leadership positions in both large and boutique ESG advisory firms, where he specialized in ESG for a variety of sectors, including energy, consumer, finance, food/beverage and healthcare. Dan holds a BA from The College of New Jersey and an MPP from George Washington University.

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Tim Mohin

Partner and Director, BCG

Tim Mohin is a global leader in climate and sustainability. He is the former CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and a veteran of Persefoni, Intel, Apple, and AMD. Tim also led development of key environmental policies in the US EPA and the US Senate. He is a member of BCG’s Climate and Sustainability Practice, with expertise in ESG disclosure and corporate strategy across industries.

Carmela Mondino Borromeo

ESG Advisor, Borromeo Mondino Advisory

Carmela Mondino Borromeo is a seasoned professional in ESG and sustainability, currently residing in Switzerland with her husband, two children, and their dog. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen. Carmela has an impressive career spanning roles at TotalEnergies, adidas, and Lonza. Most recently, she served as the Head of ESG & Sustainability at Partners Group, a global leader in private markets investment, where she integrated ESG and impact considerations across all asset classes. Passionate about making a positive impact in the world, she has been recognized in PEI's 40 Under 40 in 2021 and is an active participant in industry conferences and discussions. At the moment, she is working as an independent advisor to different players in the sustainable finance space. Outside of work, Carmela enjoys singing, dancing, and hiking, bringing her passion for life into everything she does.

Nicolas Monnier

Senior Managing Director – Private Equity, SAP

Former field hockey Elite athlete (96 caps for French team, Beijing 2008 Olympic qualifier), Nicolas started his career in the investment space working for a private equity firm focusing on both growth capital and LBO transactions. After 5 years, he switched careers and relocated to Australia in order to open and run the regional office of a European-based digital media start-up.

In 2011, he returned to Paris to invest in a HR start-up and be operationally involved as VP and Global Head of Strategic Partnerships. After the acquisition by SAP SuccessFactors in 2017, Nicolas held an EMEA thought leadership role at SAP SuccessFactors. In 2019, he decided to join the SAP Private Equity team as EMEA Senior Director and capitalize on his previous experiences in both Private Equity and B2B software industries. Nicolas has a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance and holds an Executive Master’s degree from Polytechnique (X) in Innovation Management. Since 2022, Nicolas is also a seed investor in several companies including MoonSurgical, Onepilot, and Seeqle.

Ben Morley

Partner and Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Ben is a member of Boston Consulting Group's sustainable finance leadership team, with expertise in the creation of business value through the effective incorporation of sustainability considerations across the investment lifecycle (fund strategy, due diligence, portfolio value creation). As part of this role, Ben leads the ESG reporting and metrics work in private equity for the firm, which includes BCG’s support of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI). BCG’s support of the initiative includes advising the GP-LP Steering Committee (e.g. on metric selection), developing a first-of-its-kind benchmark of sustainability data for the private markets (the 2024 benchmark comprises data from 6,200 portfolio companies), deriving research insights on sustainability in private equity and advising members on strategic insights for their portfolios from the benchmark.

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fuelled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Megan Murday

Head of ESG Strategy, North America, Dasseti

Megan Murday is the Head of ESG, North America, at Dasseti. She joined the Dasseti team as part of the Metric acquisition. Megan founded Metric to provide ESG management software for private market investors. She began her career at Deloitte in the strategy and analytics consulting practice. Megan studied policy at Georgetown University and graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.

Evelina Olago

Managing Director of Client & Strategy, Just Climate

Evelina is Managing Director of Client and Strategy at Just Climate.

Previously, Evelina spent three years as investor relations senior manager at Helios Investment Partners in London. Her role covered fundraising, client engagement as well as development of the firm’s impact and climate strategies. Prior to that , she spent four years as part of the firm’s value creation team working with management teams in Africa and the UK in sectors including energy, real estate, telecommunications and financial services to drive growth, develop robust ESG systems and prepare the businesses for exit.
Evelina also worked at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant and started her career at Ernst & Young in the energy and resources group in London.

Just Climate is an investment business dedicated to climate-led investing to address the net-zero challenge at scale. Our ambition is to identify and invest in high-impact solutions for climate mitigation, as well as to catalyse and multiply capital to scale them. We seek to harness the power of institutional capital to accelerate, and to set a new standard for, climate-led investing.

Just Climate LLP is an appointed representative of Generation Investment Management LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For further information, please visit www.justclimate.com or ‘Just Climate’ on LinkedIn.

Eimear Palmer

Partner, Global Head of ESG, Pantheon Ventures

Eimear is a Partner and Global Head of ESG, with responsibility for overseeing and developing Pantheon’s established ESG strategy and range of initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, Eimear worked for 14 years in private equity-focused ESG roles, including most recently as Managing Director and Head of Responsible Investment at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). Before that she worked at the Carlyle Group, where she implemented an enhanced ESG framework for Carlyle Europe Partners. Eimear is recognized across the industry for engagement with key industry stakeholders and previously co-founded the UK network of Initiative Climat International, an investor-led platform focused on climate action among leading global private market organizations, of which Pantheon is a signatory.

We are experienced investors in private equity, infrastructure & real assets and private credit. As responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, we aim to source and execute the best possible private market opportunities.
Investing with confidence and conviction, we have a long-standing reputation from 40 years of investment experience in private markets. We invest with integrity and professionalism and follow a policy of active ownership and engagement. We listen to our clients, then aim to deliver investment solutions to meet their requirements.
We refuse to stand still. Heritage and innovation come together at Pantheon enabling us to learn from the past while at the same time look to the future. We are at the forefront of pioneering private equity initiatives for the Defined Contribution and Private Wealth markets.

We operate from offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bogotá, Tokyo, Dublin and Berlin, with representation in a number of other key markets. We employ approximately 450 staff, over 140 of which are investment professionals.

Pantheon is owned by Pantheon Partners, alongside Affiliated Managers Group Inc.

Ashim Paun

Head of Sustainable Investing, Triton Partners

Ashim is Head of Sustainable Investing at Triton, a European mid-market buyout investor. Ashim and the ESG team focus on embedding sustainability across the full investment cycle - investor relations, sourcing investments catalysed by environmental and social themes, transitioning companies during ownership, and ultimately realising higher multiples at exit by bringing to market future-aligned, operationally de-risked businesses.

Before joining, Ashim was a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of ESG at HSBC Global Research, with a focus on climate and energy transition. Ashim also held related roles at Newton Investment Management, PIRC and Magnetar Capital, supplemented by early-career experience from government and an NGO.

Caitlin Pentifallo

Head of Metrics & Regulation, Novata

Dr. Caitlin Pentifallo has over 14 years of experience in ESG data analysis, impact evaluation, and strategy development, and has helped purpose-driven organizations measure and communicate their sustainability and reporting goals. She joined Novata in 2023 and leads Novata's global Metrics & Regulations practice.

Caitlin has a PhD in Sociology from the University of British Columbia, where she studied the use of indicator-based impact assessment on social and policy outcomes. She is a credentialed evaluator (CE) with the Canadian Evaluation Society, a member of the American Evaluation Association, certified in Social Return on Investment, Global Reporting Initiative, and utilization-focused evaluation, among many other frameworks and standards.

Kaja Pergar

Climate Strategy Lead, Blue Owl Capital

Kaja Pergar leads the design and implementation of climate strategy for Blue Owl Capital and is a member of the Responsible Investing & ESG team.

Before joining Blue Owl, Kaja was a Principal at Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, where she helped set up the Climate & Sustainability Practice. Additionally, she was a strategic advisor to the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), as part of which she helped develop industry guidance.

Kaja received a master’s degree in physics from University College London (UCL).

Heleen van Poecke

Founder and CEO, KEY ESG

Heleen van Poecke is Co-Founder and CEO of KEY ESG, a global sustainability software firm that supports 500+ companies on their sustainability data collection and reporting. With a sizeable EU customer portfolio, KEY ESG supports a growing number of its clients on CSRD reporting. Prior to founding KEY ESG, Heleen worked in private equity investing with AlpInvest Partners and Software at Collibra. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kaitlyn Posa

Principal, KKR

Kaitlyn Posa is a Principal at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where she serves on the legal team with a focus on sustainability. Prior to joining KKR, she was a corporate associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Ms. Posa holds a Juris Doctor (JD) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.

Roraj Pradhananga

Chief Investment Officer, Veris Wealth Partners

Roraj is a Partner and the Managing Director of Research at Veris Wealth Partners. He leads the Investment Research team and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. He is responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of investments across asset classes, thematic research, capital markets analysis, and impact measurement and management. Roraj chairs the firm’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee and Investment Working Group.

He seeks to drive systems level change and positive environmental and social impact through financial markets, build partnerships, identify impactful investment opportunities for clients, and contribute to the advancement of the impact investing industry.

Roraj has fifteen years of experience in the US and Switzerland across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Banking and Insurance in various functions and roles. Prior to joining Veris, Roraj was a Sustainability Investing Analyst at RobecoSAM in Zurich, Switzerland, where he developed and implemented sustainability, ESG and impact investing solutions across core, thematic, and impact investment strategies and covered the consumer discretionary and telecoms sectors. Before RobecoSAM, he was a Vice President in Debt Capital Markets at Citigroup in New York. He started his career at KPMG in New York in the Insurance and Asset Management practices.

Roraj holds an MBA (Honors) from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting (Magna Cum Laude) from SUNY Binghamton. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He lives with his family in NY.

Sanaz Raczynski

Head of Sustainability, Kohlberg

Sanaz Raczynski is a Managing Director and Head of Sustainability at Kohlberg. Sanaz is an active participant on Kohlberg’s investment team, reporting to the Chief Investment Officer. She sets the sustainability strategy and drives the implementation of ESG best practices at Kohlberg. Sanaz also acts as a sustainability strategist and a resource for Kohlberg portfolio companies. Sanaz is an active contributor to industry-wide initiatives designed to promote the adoption of ESG best practices within the private markets industry.

Prior to joining Kohlberg, Sanaz was a Managing Director and Head of Sustainability for Nuveen Real Assets and Private Markets, which include investments across farmland, timberland, agribusiness, commodities, private equity and private debt.

Sanaz received a M.Sc. in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from University of California at Los Angeles.

Founded in 1987, Kohlberg & Company is a leading U.S. middle market private equity firm based in Mount Kisco, New York. The firm invests in companies characterized by strong brands, recurring revenue streams and leading market positions, which it identifies through rigorous thematic research grounded in its White Paper Program. Leveraging its team of investment and operating partners, Kohlberg works with management teams to accelerate growth, enhance operational excellence and create value. As of September 30, 2024, Kohlberg manages approximately $15 billion on behalf of investors globally.

Dalia Rahman

Head of Climate & Portfolio Sustainability, Apax Partners

Dalia is a Principal in the Operational Excellence Practice. She joined Apax Partners in 2021 and is currently based in New York.

Prior to joining Apax, Dalia was a principal with the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), where she worked on impact investments across a range of sectors and geographies. Before SEDF, Dalia spent ten years with Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division, advising TMT clients in London, San Francisco and New York.

Dalia holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from Vassar College.

Keren Raz

Senior Responsible Investment Manager, APG Asset Management

Keren G. Raz is a Senior RI Manager and Global ESG and Impact Lead for Private Equity at APG Asset Management. Prior to APG, Keren helped develop and implement Apollo Global Management’s ESG program and advised other private equity firms on ESG as a Senior ESG Advisor at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She has also served as Global Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management at Morgan Stanley, overseeing the Firm’s management of environmental and social risks including climate change and human rights.

Ms. Raz received her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law and a certificate through Columbia University’s inaugural Sustainable Investing Certificate program. Ms. Raz graduated summa cum laude with honors from the University of Arizona, with a B.A. in English and Political Science and minors in Chinese and Spanish.

Fabio Ranghino

Partner, Head of Sustainability & Strategy, Ambienta

Fabio is a Partner and Head of Strategy & Sustainability at Ambienta and is based in Milan. He joined Ambienta in 2011 and since then has led the development of Ambienta’s approach to sustainability driven investment across asset classes building internal proprietary knowledge across sectors and industry. Under his leadership, the Sustainability & Strategy team develops sustainability driven insights and drives ideas generation for Ambienta’s investment teams, advises on investment decisions across asset classes and develops proprietary environmental impact methodologies.

Prior to Ambienta, Fabio was a management consultant with Value Partners where he developed experience on a wide range of sectors and industries including industrial goods, automotive, luxury goods and energy.

Fabio holds a BSc and a MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and has an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore) and speaks Italian (native), English (fluent) and French (proficient).

Will Relle

Director, ESG, HarbourVest

Will Relle is an ESG Director at HarbourVest Partners based in Boston. In his role, Will is focused on engaging with the firm’s investors to understand and help achieve their ESG objectives. He also works with our internal stakeholders on developing ESG-related product and innovation.
Will joined the firm in 2022 from the ESG team at Mercer Investments, where he advised asset owners on ESG strategy and policy development, including the build-out of impact investing programs and portfolios. Most recently, he led the ESG program for Mercer’s US and Canada OCIO businesses. He holds a BS from Boston College with concentrations in Finance and Philosophy.

HarbourVest

HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm with over 42 years of experience and more than $132 billion assets under management as of June 30, 2024. Our interwoven platform provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit.

Abrielle Rosenthal

Managing Director, TowerBrook Capital Partners

Ms. Rosenthal is a Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer of TowerBrook, and also acts as the firm’s group Chief Compliance Officer.
Prior to joining TowerBrook, Ms. Rosenthal was a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis advising U.S. and European private equity clients. Ms. Rosenthal received a B.S. from the Wharton School (finance) and a B.A. (psychology) from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Columbia University Law School and an M.Phil. from Queen’s College, Cambridge. Ms. Rosenthal is on the board of The Opportunity Network and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, and a member of the Steering Committee of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI).

TowerBrook Capital Partners is a purpose-driven investment management firm co-headquartered in New York and London. The firm has raised in excess of $21 billion to date and invests in private equity, structured opportunities and impact investing strategies. As a disciplined investor with a commitment to fundamental value, the firm seeks to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns to investors on a consistent and responsible basis. TowerBrook is the first mainstream private equity firm to be certified as a B Corporation. B Corporation certification is administered by the non-profit B Lab organization and is awarded to companies that demonstrate leadership in their commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards and responsible business practices.

Avantika Saisekar

Managing Director of Sustainable Investing, Wafra Inc.

Avantika Saisekar is a Managing Director at Wafra, where she leads the Firm’s initiatives focusing on ESG integration, working with the investment teams to provide ESG due diligence and value creation guidance to the wide range of Wafra’s investments. Previously, Ms. Saisekar served as the Head of Institutional ESG Product at Northern Trust Asset Management where she oversaw product development and innovation of over $70 billion in ESG assets. Ms. Saisekar currently serves on two of the United Nations Principals of Responsible Investing (“PRI”) working groups including the Venture Capital LP group and the Assurance group, where she advises the PRI on relevant research and market guidance. Ms. Saisekar earned a BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College and is also a Fundamentals of Sustainability (FSA) credential holder.

Wafra Inc.

Wafra Inc. is an alternative investment manager focusing on Strategic Partnerships, Real Assets, Real Estate, Absolute Return Strategies, and Public Markets. Wafra has discretionary and non-discretionary AUM of approximately $32 billion and employs over 195 professionals, including 70 investment professionals. By providing flexible and accretive capital solutions and focusing on the long term, Wafra aligns with and invests in high-quality investment management teams. Wafra’s principal offices are in New York, NY with affiliated and associated offices in Bermuda, London and Kuwait City.

Egle Sakalauskaite

Head of Responsible Investing, Bregal Investments

Egle Sakalauskaite is the Head of Responsible Investing at Bregal Investments, where she leads responsible investment strategy across the platform and underlying funds. Since joining Bregal in 2019, she has played a key role in integrating environmental, social, and governance considerations into investment processes. With over a decade of experience advising companies, investors, and asset managers on sustainability strategy and implementation, Egle brings deep expertise in ESG integration, responsible investment, and climate risk management.

Prior to Bregal, she was an Associate Director at Jones Lang LaSalle, where she supported businesses in embedding ESG principles and managing climate-related financial risks. Earlier in her career, she held specialist roles at leading sustainability consulting and advisory firms, including DNV GL and EY, focusing on stakeholder engagement, green finance, and sustainable investment strategies.

Jim Scarfone

Chief Human Resources Officer & Human Capital Operating Partner, MidOcean Partners

Vincent (Jim) Scarfone joined MidOcean Partners in October 2019 and is responsible for providing Human Resources leadership and support for MidOcean Private Equity and MidOcean Credit Partners. Prior to joining MidOcean, he served as Executive Vice President, Human Resources for KIND Healthy Snacks since 2015. Prior to joining KIND, Mr. Scarfone held a variety of senior Human Resources roles most notably at Ulta Beauty, Duane Reade Drugstores and Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services. Earlier in his career, Mr. Scarfone spent over 20 years in several HR leadership roles with Toys “R” Us Inc. Mr. Scarfone served as founding member and President of the Duane Reade Charitable Foundation from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Scarfone has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in London Ontario Canada.

MidOcean Partners is a premier New York-based alternative asset manager specializing in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments. Since its inception in 2003, MidOcean Private Equity has targeted investments in high-quality middle-market companies in the consumer and business services sectors. MidOcean Credit Partners was launched in 2009 and currently manages a series of alternative credit strategies, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), and customized separately managed accounts.

Eric Scheriff

Senior Managing Director, Capstone

Eric leads Capstone’s Global Energy & Sustainability Practice as a Senior Managing Director. Eric and his team advise leading energy companies, private equity firms, and hedge funds on investment decisions, M&A, and corporate strategy.

Eric has particular expertise in the energy transition and sustainability sectors, with significant due diligence experience on M&A transactions involving solar and wind power, renewable natural gas (RNG), clean fuels, and utilities.

Eric and his team have led investor due diligence on over 100 M&A transactions including acquisitions of major utilities, renewable energy platforms, power plants, battery storage, clean fuels, and energy services companies. Eric has a background in investment banking, consulting, and energy policy, which drives his holistic approach to helping clients invest in energy transition and sustainability opportunities.

Prior to joining Capstone in 2013, Eric was an Equity Research Analyst at a boutique investment bank.

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek

Founder & COO, KEY ESG

Anne-Marie Schoonbeck is co-founder and COO of KEY ESG, a global software platform which helps companies and investors to collect, report and improve their ESG data and performance. Formerly a manager at McKinsey & Co in New York and Amsterdam, she has completed an MBA at Harvard Business School, an MSc in Financial Economics from London School of Economics, and an LLM in European Law at Bologna University/ Ghent University. Anne-Marie is an export in CSRD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, IFRS, US SEC, and the California Climate Laws.

Shannon Selden

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Shannon Rose Selden is the Chair of Asset Management Litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton. She has a broad practice representing hedge fund and private equity clients, as plaintiffs and defendants, in complex, high-stakes litigation.

Ms. Selden has significant experience as lead counsel in state and federal courts in the full range of matters affecting asset management firms, including merger, securities, contract, corporate governance, fiduciary, financing and debt restructuring disputes.

Ms. Selden is ranked as a leading lawyer for Commercial Litigation by Chambers USA, which has described her as “an outstanding lawyer and strategic adviser” and “a very analytical and creative thinker.”

Adinah Shackleton

Head of Sustainability, Permira

Adinah is Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and is responsible for overseeing and further developing Permira’s ESG activities. Prior to joining Permira, Adinah spent eight years with a global sustainability consultancy, as a principal Consultant focusing on transaction services and ESG for private equity clients. Before that, she spent over a year in construction as an Environmental Coordinator.

Adinah is the former chair of the BVCA’s Responsible Investment Advisory Group. She continues to be a member of the group, and is also a member of Invest Europe’s Responsible Investment Roundtable and a member of the UK operating committee for Initiative Climate International.

Permira

Permira is a global investment firm. Founded in 1985, the firm advises private equity funds with a total committed capital of over €33bn and makes long-term investments, including majority control investments as well as strategic minority investments, in companies with the objective of transforming their performance and driving sustainable growth. The Permira funds have made over 250 private equity investments in five key sectors: Consumer, Technology, Industrials, Healthcare and Financial Services. Recent announced and completed investments from Permira VI include: Allegro, Alter Domus, Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions, Diversitech, Duff and Phelps, Cybersecurity and software distributor Exclusive group, I-Med Radiology Network, LSNE, La Piadineria and Schustermann and Borenstein.

For more information visit www.permira.com

Serena Shi

Vice President, The Lightsmith Group

Serena Shi is a Vice President at The Lightsmith Group and joined the team in November 2018 as a Senior Associate. Prior to Lightsmith, Ms. Shi was an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, where she focused on direct equity and debt investments in the telecoms sector in emerging markets. She was previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs, where she worked on structured debt transactions across the renewable energy, telecoms, media, pharmaceutical, and consumer retail sectors.

Ms. Shi holds a B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Lightsmith Group

The Lightsmith Group is a global sustainable private equity firm that invests in companies addressing critical societal needs, addressing and mitigating the physical risks and impacts from climate change that are being exacerbated across all sectors of the economy. Lightsmith is an active investor investing in growth-stage companies providing technology-enabled business services and solutions in the areas of resilient infrastructure, energy, food, water, supply chain/logistics, healthcare, among others.

For more information on The Lightsmith Group, please see: www.lightsmithgp.com.

Priyanka Shome

Vice President, ESG, One Rock

Priyanka Shome is a Vice President of ESG at One Rock Capital Partners, LLC. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Shome served as an ESG Specialist at Partners Group focused on Private Equity and Private Infrastructure. Ms. Shome earned a B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. in finance and business, environment, energy, and sustainability from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bruce Simpson

Partner, AgeTech Capital

Bruce Simpson is an international leader in business and philanthropy delivering societal impact and shareholder returns through several roles in sustainability/ESG. He is a GP in AgeTech Capital, raising a $50m fund plus $50m in SPV’s to invest in tech solutions delivering ‘healthier, wealthier and more fulfilling aging’. He is a Mentor/advisor to two startup incubators, and three transformational ESG startups: Tomorrow.io on ‘E’, Quadfi on ‘S’ and Re:Co on ‘G’. He is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey on ESG/Purpose, helping companies deliver positive societal impact, and long term shareholder benefits, through their core business. He retired from McKinsey as a Senior Partner in early 2021 after 33 years delivering transformations across strategy, operations and organisation topics, and several global leadership roles, including leading McKinsey's ESG/Purpose practice. As a Senior Advisor to McKinsey he coaches Boards and CEO's worldwide to calibrate ESG risks and opportunities, engage stakeholders, develop a credible, integrated narrative, and deliver measurable impact. He shares ideas on how best to execute stakeholder capitalism, through 40+ articles, podcasts and speeches.
He has an MA and LLM from Cambridge University, and an MBA/MA in International Studies from Wharton, and the Lauder Institute at U. Penn. His parents are arctic explorers. Time spent living with indigenous cultures in the arctic developed his early passion for ESG.

AgeTech Capital

AgeTech Capital (ATC) is an “S” (of ESG) focused VC and social impact fund that will invest in Series A startups delivering non-biotech solutions for healthier, wealthier and more fulfilling aging, across 4 verticals: Aging in the right place, Circle of care, Financial security, and Health/wellness for older people. ATC is a triple return VC fund, and is unique in that partner ‘carry’ also depends on delivering measurable social impact on the aging community. ATC is fund-raising now targeting first close in Q2, 2025. ATC is a women’s led NA based fund with a global footprint, seeking both NA and European based LP’s. ATC has already made 2 investments, and is poised to make 4 others. The first ones are in LifestyleRX a physician-led startup delivering tech enabled Type 2 diabetes reversal programs, with 46% success rates, and full reimbursement from insurance, and BloomFinance , which brings new and creative solutions to financial security challenges of older people.

Ulysses Smith

ESG Senior Advisor, Debevoise & Plimpton

Ulysses Smith is ESG Senior Adviser at Debevoise & Plimpton. He is a leading lawyer and thought leader on ESG, working at the intersection of sustainability, governance, rule of law, anti-corruption, and human rights. His experience includes advising major multinationals, not-for profit organizations, governments and multilateral institutions on a range of sustainability and governance issues.

He has devised tailored inclusive models of governance and sustainability, addressing a range of ESG factors and risks, including environmental sustainability, human rights and labor issues, corruption, and sanctions. He is a UN Global Compact Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer for work advancing good governance, human rights, and the rule of law, and is a member of the UN Global Compact’s Expert Network, focused on sustainability and governance. He has held leadership positions in bar associations including the New York City Bar Association, where he chaired the United Nations Committee, as well as the Task Force on Good Governance in the Secretary-General Selection, and is a frequent speaker and commentator on ESG, law, policy and related developments.

Alena Solonina

Partner and Co-Founder, CurvePoint Capital

Alena Solonina is a Partner and Co-Founder of CurvePoint Capital, an investment firm dedicated to providing structured capital solutions for high-growth companies addressing pressing environmental issues. Alena previously worked at Aegon Climate Capital, which was the predecessor of CurvePoint Capital. She leverages a decade of experience deploying capital across various alternative asset classes and is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs throughout their journey and deploying capital where it matters most. She holds a Master’s degree from Finance University under the Government of Russian Federation and Certificate of Finance from University of California Los Angeles.

Jovana Stopic

ESG Director, IK Partners

Jovana Stopic joined IK Partners in 2019 and works as an Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Director in London, within the ESG team. She is responsible for engaging on ESG matters with internal teams, portfolio companies and our investors. Since joining, she has used her passion to drive continuous change in this area, continuously updating related policies and supporting ESG integration throughout the investment lifecycle.
Before joining IK, Jovana gained considerable experience working as an independent Business and Human Rights Consultant, after spending a decade at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. She holds an LLM in Transnational Law (Distinction) from the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London in addition to an LLM and LLB from the University of Belgrade.
In her spare time, Jovana enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, reading and expanding her knowledge on the environment at large.

Suzanne Tavill

Partner ＆ Head of Responsible Investment, StepStone

Ms. Tavill is the global head of responsible investment, which encompasses ESG and Impact investing across all asset classes and investment strategies. She leads the firm’s corporate sustainability efforts.

She is chair of the Responsible Investment Committee, a committee member on the Enterprise Risk Committee and StepStone Charitable Giving Oversight Committee.

Prior to StepStone, Ms. Tavill was Head of Alternatives at AMP capital, responsible for the private equity, infrastructure and real assets programs. Before that, she spent five years at Van Eyk Research in Sydney, the last four as head of research. Before moving to Australia, she was an executive director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, London, where she covered small and mid caps across Europe and was the portfolio manager for the UK small- and mid-cap portfolios.

Ms. Tavill received an MSc in finance and economics from the London School of Economics, in addition to a BBS with honors in economics and honors in finance from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Lazaro Tiant

Thematic Research, Schroders

Lazaro Tiant is a research director at Schroders, covering themes such as Human Rights and Sovereign Sustainability.

Prior to joining Schroders, Lazaro was an Associate Director at Sustainalytics from 2017-2021, where he was responsible for advising asset managers and allocators on research-driven sustainable investing efforts, including sector and company materiality analysis, impact measurement, and climate transition-risk assessments.

Lazaro was also an Analyst at MSCI from 2014-2017, with a focus on factor-based research and portfolio analytics. He holds a degree in Economics from Villanova University and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Madelyn Tutewiler

Director of Environmental Social Governance, MiddleGround Capital

Madelyn Tutewiler is the Vice President of ESG at MiddleGround Capital – a Private Equity firm specializing in lower middle market B2B manufacturing and specialty distribution businesses. In her role, she oversees MiddleGround's ESG department and is responsible for developing and implementing MiddleGround's ESG strategy at both the firm and portfolio investment level. She has spearheaded developing the firm's ESG strategic plan, establishing ESG initiatives and targets at both the firm and portfolio company level, and identifying core value creation opportunities.

Prior to joining MiddleGround, Madelyn was an Environmental Health and Safety Professional in the Oil and Gas Industry at Marathon Petroleum. She supported their renewable diesel project converting a crude oil processing refinery to renewable fuels - processing soy oil, corn oil, and tallow. Additionally, she supported the exploration of industrial wind energy integration and oversaw EHS performance for various components of the business.

MiddleGround Capital is a private equity firm that invests in B2B companies in the industrial and specialty distribution sectors in the lower middle market in North America & Europe. We are differentiated as true operators who have experience working in and managing businesses that range from the lower middle market to Fortune 500 companies.

We make control equity investments in businesses that can benefit from the hands-on operational expertise we bring to the table. We partner and align ourselves with management teams to execute a customized value creation program that drives equity value back to our investors as well as management.

Our hands-on approach, in-house operational expertise and the friendly and hard-working demeanor of our team differentiate us from our peers.

Maaike van der Schoot

Head of Responsible Investment, AlpInvest Partners

Maaike van der Schoot is AlpInvest's Head of Responsible Investment. She is based in Amsterdam. In her role, she leads the development and implementation of AlpInvest's Responsible Investment strategy.

Maaike joined AlpInvest Partners in 2002. Prior to her current role, she was an investment manager in the Co-Investment team. Maaike previously worked at Morgan Stanley in London as an investment banking analyst.

Maaike received an MSc in Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Aditya Vikram

Head of Private Equity, UNPRI

Aditya Vikram is the Head of Private Equity at the PRI where he also leads the Private Debt practice. Based in London, he joined PRI in 2023 having previously worked in responsible investing in private markets. He has c.16 years of experience working in investment management across UK, Europe and Asia having previously worked at Partners Group, QuadReal and Värde Partners. Aditya holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA and an MBA from London Business School.

Lexi Wachter

Vice President, Sustainability, General Atlantic

Lexi Wachter is a Vice President at General Atlantic and focuses on the firm’s strategy to advance environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts for its global operations and across its portfolio. Before joining General Atlantic in 2022, Lexi co-founded Bridge House Advisors where she supported clients as an ESG Business Advisor. Previously, she was a Project Manager at Environmental Resources Management (ERM).

Lindsey Walton

Director of Americas, Principles for Responsible Investment

Lindsey Walton CFA, PRM currently works at the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) as their Director of Americas. The PRI aims to bring responsible investors together to work towards sustainable markets that contribute to a more prosperous world for all. Through her work at the PRI, Lindsey was a founding member of Climate Engagement Canada (CEC, akin to CA100+), won a Canada’s Clean50 award for her leadership in collaborative work, and was the architect of the PRI’s global Community of Practice model (which seeks to bring investors together to build responsible investment ecosystems).
Before the PRI, Lindsey worked to accelerate gender equity in the Canadian finance industry as a Director at Women In Capital Markets (WCM). Prior to WCM, Lindsey worked in the capital markets space for over a decade. She got her start in venture capital and has spent the majority of her career with CIBC Capital Markets Risk Management (CMRM) doing trading floor market risk for a variety of different asset classes. Lindsey is Chair of the Board of Nellie’s Women’s Shelter in Toronto and volunteers in WCM’s professional and student mentorship programs.

Keith Warren

Senior Strategic Talent Advisor, LS Power

Keith is an experienced organizational effectiveness leader with a decade in private equity, helping businesses scale, transform, and optimize for long-term value creation.

At LS Power, he works across the investment cycle—from due diligence to exit—aligning leadership teams, talent strategies, incentives, and organizational structures to drive growth. His expertise spans M&A integrations, carve-outs, and company builds, ensuring that portfolio companies have the right leadership and organizational foundation to accelerate value creation.

Keith’s background includes roles as an organizational psychologist, recruitment outsourcing business leader, and management consultant with AlixPartners, where he led organizational transformations across APAC, EMEA, and North America. He also serves on the Board of the Organization Design Forum and chaired its 2024 conference.

LS Power is a leading energy infrastructure investor, developer, and operator. Since 2005, it has raised $13.4 billion in equity commitments and developed or acquired 37+ GW of power generation, including renewables, battery storage, and natural gas. The firm also scales businesses driving the energy transition, such as EV charging, demand response, and waste-to-energy. Additionally, LS Power’s greenfield development efforts date back to 1990, including LS Power Grid with investments and operations serving 5 ISO/RTOs that cover electricity needs for 28 states and 185 mm people.

For information, please visit www.LSPower.com.

Ryan Werffeli

Chief Operating Officer & Head of LP Partnerships, Malk Partners, part of SLR

Ryan Werffeli is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of LP Partnerships at Malk Partners, a leading consulting firm specializing in ESG and Impact Advisory for Private Markets. Over the past seven years, Ryan has played a pivotal role in scaling the firm from 8 to 80 employees and navigating its successful sale to SLR in 2024.

Ryan has extensive experience building ESG programs for numerous General Partners (GPs) and after 7 years now focuses on collaborating with Limited Partners (LPs). His work involves evaluating manager performance and supporting LPs in achieving their responsible investment objectives. This includes developing ESG strategies, benchmarking against peer institutions, enhancing manager engagement and scoring, and providing training, reporting, and framework alignment. Ryan takes pride in transforming ESG reporting from a compliance exercise into a driver of differentiation and value creation.

Malk Partners is a premier advisor to private market investors, helping them create and protect value through effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management and impact investing. Founded in 2009 and acquired by SLR in 2024, Malk Partners serves over 150 of the world’s leading alternative investment managers, helping them define ESG goals, achieve tangible results, and guide their portfolio companies in creating value while mitigating risks. The firm is headquartered in New York City.

Tensie Whelan

Distinguished Professor of Practice, NYU Stern School of Business

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Distinguished Professor of Practice for Business and Society, is the Founding Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

Luke Wilcox

Partner, ACA Group

Luke is a Partner at ACA Group, leading ESG data and analytics through the Ethos platform. Previously Luke was the founder and CEO of Ethos, a platform helping investment managers and professionals with ESG risk data, analysis, and reporting.

Luke previously led consulting engagements with McKinsey & Company, worked at social impact organizations focused on human rights, and was co-founder of a software analytics company. In his free time, he enjoys being in nature with his family, running and biking, and reading.

Jennifer Wilson

CEO and Founder, Re:Co

As Re:Co’s CEO and Founder, Jenn works with exceptional colleagues to deliver innovative client services and tools which enable transformation in the realm of sustainability. She’s motivated to help clients connect the dots between sustainability strategy and overall performance, and she’s also the host of Re:Co’s Future in Sound podcast.

Jenn brings deep expertise in strategy, governance, and sustainability to the team. Before founding Re:Co, Jenn was the Chief Financial Officer of the AIL Group of engineering & infrastructure companies, where she helped to embed sustainability into core value creation across the portfolio. Prior to AIL Group, she served as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in London. She has earned her ICD designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and serves on a number of corporate and non-profit Boards. She received her BSc in Environmental Geoscience and BBA in Business Administration at Acadia University and her MSc in Environmental Change & Management at the University of Oxford.

Re:Co

Re:Co’s tech-powered advisory solutions enable private market investors and their portfolio companies to pursue value creation and sustainability in tandem. Using our easy-to-implement SaaS-based data platform, private equity firms can collect the data needed to build out ESG programs as well as to report to investors and other stakeholders. Our seasoned advisors build on this data foundation, bringing years of value creation experience and expertise in high-ROI ESG measures and decarbonization to our services. The funds and portfolio companies we partner with come away with achievable sustainability strategies and action plans that drive value while also supporting improvement across the full spectrum of ESG metrics.

Susan Winterberg

Fellow, Dual Use, VentureESG

Susan Winterberg is a Fellow at VentureESG, a non-profit network of over 500 GPs and 100 LPs, advancing ESG in the entrepreneurial finance ecosystem worldwide where she focuses on dual use, defense tech and deep tech venture capital.

Susan is also currently a consultant with World Bank Group/IFC’s ESG Policies and Standards team where she focuses on ESG for disruptive technology and digital risks in emerging economies. She has previously held academic research appointments at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Harvard Business School. Susan also previously worked at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), where she led the Inclusive Economy team and was the Global Practice Lead for Urban Planning and Development at the Canadian infrastructure PPP transaction advisory firm CPCS which has implemented projects in transport, energy and real estate in over 110 countries.

Susan holds a Masters in Urban Planning and International Development from Harvard University and a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Cincinnati.

Abdulla Zaid

Vice President, Private Capital Research, MSCI

Abdulla Zaid leads research on sustainability and climate investment solutions in private-capital funds. He brings expertise in sustainable investing, particularly in energy transition, climate risk assessment, data reporting and engagement as well as integrating sustainability targets in private-capital portfolio construction. Abdulla is an economist by trade, and previously worked in the forestry-products markets and macroeconomic policies. He holds a master’s degree in development economics and policy from the University of Manchester and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from St. Lawrence University. Abdulla holds the CFA® certificate in ESG investing.

Tang Zongzhong

Head of Sustainability, Private Capital Asia, EQT

Tang Zongzhong is Head of Sustainability in the EQT Private Capital Asia team. Tang worked for BPEA from 2021 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT.

Prior to joining BPEA, Tang was at Partners Group, where he was responsible for ESG integration and impact investing in Asia. Before that, he was an Associate Director at Blackpeak Singapore, where he oversaw fraud, bribery and corruption assignments in Southeast Asia and Greater China.

Tang holds an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University and a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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