- Overcoming changing market and consumer sentiment and their impact on reputation
- Mitigating increasing reputational and conduct risk rising from enhanced regulatory scrutiny
- Avoiding reputational damage from perceived greenwashing
Ben Stevens
Director of CMC Policy and Advocacy
GSK
Ben Stevens is a Director of CMC Policy and Advocacy at GSK and has nearly 15 years of drug discovery and regulatory experience. Prior to GSK, Ben was a Director of Regulatory Affairs CMC at Alnylam where he led the clinical regulatory CMC development of vutrisiran prefilled syringe in over 30 countries, and the initial US NDA and EU MAA submissions. Before Ben joined Alnylam, he was a Principal Consultant at PAREXEL and an acting Branch Chief in the Office of New Drug Products (ONDP) at the FDA. At FDA, Ben worked closely with several key policy groups (OPPQ, ORP), partnered with CDRH on matters related to combination product review, and was a government liaison to USP. Before FDA, Ben spent seven years in medicinal chemistry R&D at Pfizer and Merck. Ben has broad regulatory CMC experience in small molecules, peptides, oligonucleotides, botanicals, and combination products, with recent focus CMC policy and advocacy for biologics and CGT at GSK. He received a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, a M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins and is a co-author of over 30 publications and patents.
Michaela Schütz
Deputy Head of Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS)
Fedpol
Floriana Scarlato
Group Chief Compliance Officer
Lombard Odier
Jim Behrens
COO
Opsis Health
Ilya Zhivkovich
Chief Business Officer
Microphyt SA
James Francis
COO
Unlocked Labs
Sarah Morgan
Head of Nutrition Innovation
Routine
- Creating comprehensive education programs from the board down
- Educating the institution on the current priorities of ESG risk management programs
- Informing decision making throughout other functions of the institution
- Expanding ESG risk management teams: training from within or recruiting specialists
Panelists
Mitch Carpen
Senior Vice President and Climate Risk Executive
Key Bank
Mitch Carpen has over 25 years of experience designing, leading and implementing a broad range of growth, realignment and startup initiatives in financial and governmental organizations.
He is the Climate Risk Executive at KeyBank and currently leading their Climate Risk Framework buildout.
In his previous role at the Green Climate Fund in South Korean he served as the head of the Office of Risk Management, Compliance and Sustainability where he built up a team and the due diligence framework to allow the Fund to significantly scale up its portfolio of climate change transactions in developing countries.
Before joining the Green Climate Fund, he worked with the State of New Jersey as an Executive Director to startup an infrastructure bank that focused on financing resilient energy assets after the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Before this he was an Assistant General Manager at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Singapore where he led the startup of the risk function for their newest regional headquarter. He also held senior positions with Societe Generale’s risk team in New York City, Instinet Corporation and Prudential Financial.
Mitch has a masters degree in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University in New York City, and a masters and bachelors degree in Economics and Information Science from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Emily Westendorf
Vice President, ERM Program Manager
Fifth Third Bank
Emily Westendorf serves as vice president and ERM program manager. She is responsible for establishment of the climate risk program including execution of climate scenario analysis, design of a data strategy, and climate-related communications.
Emily previously served in multiple operational risk roles including Scenario Analysis Program Manager, KRI Program Manager, Operational Risk Governance Manager. In these roles, Emily managed integration of key risk indicators from the MB Financial merger, enhanced governance protocols in alignment with Heightened Standards, and executed large scale scenarios on topics ranging from cyber to LIBOR to climate. Emily also provided second line operational risk oversight of Consumer Bank and centralized functions. Emily began her career at Fifth Third as a Learning Facilitator supporting Retail.
Moderator
Jim Costa
Chief Risk Officer
Banner Bank
James Costa is Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Banner Bank. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s risk and compliance functions as well as the Bank’s interactions with industry regulators. He is also a member of the Bank’s Executive Management Committee.
Prior to joining Banner, Costa served as Chief Risk and Chief Credit Officer for TCF Financial a regional bank where he managed all credit and risk functions as well as operations. At TCF Jim managed the enterprise integration of the merger equals between Chemical Bank and TCF. Prior to TCF, Jim held executive leadership positions in risk, credit and lines of business as EVP at PNC Financial and Head of Enterprise Credit Strategy at Wachovia Corporation, now Wells Fargo. Jim has been active in financial services for almost 30 years with focus areas including enterprise strategy credit risk, and regulatory relations.
Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and conducted his doctoral studies from the University of Minnesota. Jim is a veteran of the US Air Force. In Minnesota, Jim is active in community organizations to include Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society and The University of Minnesota Center for Children’s Cancer Research. Jim is also an advisory board member for the Midsize Bank Coalition of America.
JT Groarke
Head of Fitness Partnerships
Gympass
After a career in finance, JT opened a boutique training gym in NYC. His newfound love for the fitness industry coupled with a desire to pursue an opportunity in the corporate environment, led to the sale of his gym and acceptance of a role on the Gympass Fitness Partnerships team. JT has been with Gympass for 5 years and manages all National Partnerships for Gympass in the US.