- Understanding how to interpret and align on ratings
- Adapting ESG risk frameworks to varying political and economic environments
- Understanding where the US fits in with international goal setting for ESG targets and adjusting ESG risk strategies accordingly
- Exploring the wider risks associated with environmental concerns beyond climate risk
- Benchmarking progress and focus of the S and G
- Understanding the social risks associated with current business risk categories
- Managing the reputational risk associated with climate and ESG
Panelists
May Hu
Head of Counterparty Risk Exposure
Capital One
Kevin Clarke
Executive Director of Group Regulatory and Governance
UBS
Erin Komorowski
Director of ESG and Sustainability
M&T Bank
Jennifer Sullo
Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions
Earth Finance
Jen Sullo is Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions at Earth Finance. She brings significant expertise integrating sustainability into portfolio construction, investment, and due diligence processes as well as creating tailored, client-specific sustainable investment funds for private wealth and institutional investors – including corporate retirement plans, insurance reserves, non-profit investment portfolios, and financial intermediary platforms. Prior to Earth Finance, Jen was Global Head of Sustainable Investing Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she was responsible for sustainable investing strategy, product development, and partnerships. She graduated from Fairfield University with an M.S. in Finance and from Trinity College with a B.S. in Economics.
Kirby Brendsel
Vice President ESG and Sustainability Director
Flagstar Bank
Kirby Brendsel is Flagstar Bank’s VP, Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Director, where he leads Flagstar's strategic sustainability and initiatives and the company's goal to be a recognized global sustainability leader. He is coming from Welltower Inc.’s (a real estate investment trust) where he headed their award-winning strategic sustainability and ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Welltower in 2019, Mr. Brendsel worked at Nuveen as a Director of Responsible Investing. Before Nuveen, he served as Associate Director of Sustainability for Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide, where he supported the strategy, integration and management of Starwood’s sustainability program and worked collaboratively with the community programs/Starwood Foundation team on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy and reporting. Previously, Mr. Brendsel consulted for Deloitte where he assisted in the creation of Deloitte’s Federal Sustainability practice and Diversity & Inclusion program. Mr. Brendsel’s other past roles include active-duty service as a Military Intelligence Corps Major in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Brendsel graduated with distinction and honors from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Business and the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University with an M.B.A. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Green Associate (GA), and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Mr. Brendsel was recently recognized as an Honoree for 2020 by Environment + Energy Leader’s annual "best of" list of environment and energy professionals - the E+E 100.
Mr. Brendsel is active in his local community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Aspetuck Land Trust and Lachat Town Farm Commission as well as on the Town of Weston’s Sustainability Committee, Historical Society, and Conservation and Parks & Recreation Commissions.
Moderator
Nosa Omoigui
CEO and Founder
Weave.AI
Nosa Omoigui is the CEO and founder of Weave.AI. Prior to Weave.AI, he led machine learning and personalization teams at Amazon. Nosa also held a senior role at Microsoft Research (MSR). Nosa has a total of 23 granted patents and over 50 pending patents on various areas of technology, including AI.
- Keeping up with regulatory expectations: ensuring disclosure of data by the end of 2024
- Understanding what regulators are asking for, when they want it and how to prepare
- Benchmarking where we are, where we want to be and how we get there
Michelle Tarver
Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation
FDA
Dr. Michelle Tarver is the Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation where she provides co-leadership for all scientific collaborative and emerging technology-related activities at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). This leadership and oversight at CDRH include but are not limited to public health emergency preparedness and response activities, digital health, cybersecurity, conformity standards development and implementation, partnerships, and patient science and engagement. Under her leadership, CDRH is advancing efforts to include underserved populations in the evaluation of medical devices, including people living with rare diseases and with diverse age, gender, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
Dr. Tarver received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and completed the M.D./Ph.D. program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. Following her internal medicine internship, she completed a residency in ophthalmology with fellowship training in ocular inflammation (uveitis) both at the Wilmer Eye Institute (Johns Hopkins). Board-certified in ophthalmology with an epidemiology doctorate, she has worked on laboratory-based and epidemiological studies, clinical trials, registries, developing patient-reported outcome measures as well as surveys to capture patient preferences. As a dedicated clinician, she continues to care for patients with uveitis at Solomon Eye Associates in Bowie, MD.
Sivon Kalminov
Director of IP
Canon
Mr. Kalminov is the Director of the Canon U.S.A. Inc., Intellectual Property Division. He is responsible for managing the Division’s day-to-day patent prosecution work, which includes overseeing both the patent prosecution and administration departments. M. Kalminov also provides support on patent litigation matters, contract matters, and general U.S. patent law related advice to various domestic and international Canon companies and subsidiaries. Mr. Kalminov is a current member of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Section, and a past Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, general Executive Committee Member, and Patent Group Chair of the Section. In addition to his J.D., Mr. Kalminov has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
Sven Smit
Chair
McKinsey Global Institute
Catriona Curtis
Group Sustainability and Social Value Manager
Pets at Home
Adrian Mom
Partner, Risk Advisory
AlixPartners
Adrian is a Partner in the AlixPartners Risk Advisory team, located in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in leveraging cutting-edge technology and accounting expertise to conduct internal and regulatory high-profile investigations, monitorships, risk analytics, comprehensive reviews of compliance programs, and related transformations.
Adrian’s experience includes complex local and cross-border compliance matters across several industries in connection with AFC obligations, (top)-management misconduct, accounting fraud, corruption, bribery, tax fraud, asset misappropriation, and other related offenses.
He is recognized by Who is Who Legal as one of the Future Global Leaders in Investigations 2021 and 2022, is a CFA charter holder and holds a MSc in Finance from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.