Data Sustainability Summit

Pete Petersen

CTO  
Causeway Capital

Mr. Petersen is the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Causeway Capital Management LLC and has been with the firm since its inception in June 2001. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Petersen was the Senior Engineer at the Hotchkis & Wiley division of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (HW-MLIM) where he was responsible for managing data center operations and overall infrastructure. Prior to that, Mr. Petersen held various development and engineering roles at technology firms in Silicon Valley including Applied Materials, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and SCO Unix.

He holds executive certificates from Johns Hopkins in Data Science, MIT in Artificial Intelligence Strategy, and the Harvard Business Analytics Program. Mr. Petersen studied philosophy at North Carolina Wesleyan University and holds professional certificates from Microsoft, CISCO, Oracle, IBM, and 3Com. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife and two teenage children.

Mojgan Nowain

Director, Capital Group Information Technology 

Ms. Nowain has 29 years of Information Technology strategy and solution experience in the financial industry. She is Director of Information Technology at Capital Group Companies where she has had multiple roles managing and supporting technology across different capabilities between investment front and back office as well as sales and marketing.

Mojgan currently has responsibilities over technology strategy and solution delivery for Private Client Services business that manages over $38 billion in assets of high-net-worth individuals and families. In the last 6 years, she successfully completed delivery of an end-to-end rearchitect program for Private Client Services transforming business operating model and technology.

In addition, she is also leading all technology solutions and impacts across the enterprise for Capital Group ESG program.

After graduating from UCLA Engineering School, Mojgan started her career in a start-up software company, Integrated Decision Systems, providing solutions for Portfolio Accounting, Performance, Trading, and other investment capabilities. She held various leadership roles managing software design and implementation, building client services and product management organizations, and expanding business operating model within the firm.

Prior to Capital Group, Mojgan created her own consulting practice and got the opportunity to partner with various consulting companies. She was able to work directly with top tier global asset and wealth managers providing consulting around technology strategy, implementation, and end-to-end investment operations and processes.

Paula Natoli

Head of Supply Chain & Logistics Industry Solutions, Americas
Google Cloud

Paula Natoli leads Google Cloud’s Supply Chain & Logistics Industry Solutions for the Americas regions, partnering with customers to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction through supply chain technology excellence. Prior to joining Google Cloud in 2020, Paula spent 23 years with Blue Yonder (formerly known as JDA Software) where she served in leadership roles in professional services and the product management organization, building and deploying supply chain solutions used by hundreds of customers worldwide. As a Penn State supply chain management graduate, she also served on the Advisory Board for the Penn State Centre for Supply Chain Research.

Sophia Mendelsohn

Chief Sustainability Officer 
Cognizant 

Sophia Mendelsohn is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) for Cognizant, one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Sophia is responsible for leading the integration of ESG considerations into the company’s thinking, decisions and actions.

Cognizant’s vision is to become the preeminent technology services provider to the leaders of the world’s Global 2000 companies. The company’s ESG program is an important part of achieving that vision and aligns with clients’ and investors’ increasing focus on ESG.

Prior to joining Cognizant in 2020, Sophia was the first Chief Sustainability Officer at JetBlue Airways, Head of Sustainability at Haworth and held an ESG role at the Jane Goodall Institute in Shanghai, China.
Sophia has been recognized for her leadership and commitment to corporate citizenship, receiving the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leadership Award in 2016, and the Climate Leader of the Year award by Ethical Corp. In 2020, she was named one of the top 30 people leading the climate charge by Bloomberg.

Sophia speaks Mandarin Chinese, serves on boards and advisory councils and holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Management from Columbia University.

Mike Renwick

Head of Data Enablement Strategy and Architecture, Schroders

Mike Renwick is the Product Manager for enterprise data at Schroders, having built a BI centre of excellence & data engineering for the data science team, and having been responsible for ESG data strategy execution at Schroders. His current focus is on enabling data citizens, engineers, scientists and quants across Schroders via enterprise data tools and services.

He enjoys applying systems thinking to practically solving modern data challenges, believing as Russell Ackoff says "The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem. Such a design incorporates common sense and research, and increases our learning more than trial-and-error or scientific research alone can."

Mamadou-Abou Sarr

Co-Founder & CEO
V-Square Quantitative Management

Mamadou is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of V-Square Quantitative Management, a subsidiary of Valor Management L.P. Mamadou founded V-Square Quantitative Management in 2020 after an accomplished career in asset management whilst working for global financial services company across the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

His investment firm specializes in financial engineering, development and management of quantitative portfolios and processing of sustainability big data.

Industry leader in the field of sustainable investing and financial innovation, Mamadou's previous role was global head of product development and sustainable investing at Northern Trust Asset Management in Chicago, where he was responsible for driving innovation and product development across asset classes. Mamadou spearheaded, developed, and led one of the largest sustainable investing platforms in the industry.

He has over eighteen years of experience in asset management. Previously, Mamadou worked for HSBC Global Asset Management, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Amundi Alternative Investments and Citi in trading, product specialist and business development roles in London, Paris, Abu Dhabi and Dakar.

Mamadou is a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD) by the CIFD Institute. Mamadou received his bachelor's in economics from the Universite Paris-Saclay and holds a master's in International project management from the European School of Management (ESCP), Paris. He has published many articles and papers in professional and academic journals including Pensions & Investments, European Pensions, Environmental Finance, and the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Mamadou has also spoken at more than 150 conferences in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Australia and is a guest lecturer on sustainability at University of Chicago, Harvard, Wharton and ESCP Business School.

Mamadou is actively involved in philanthropic and civic activities. He serves on the boards of CFA Society Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Nature Conservancy Illinois Chapter (TNC), the US SIF (The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment), Rush Health Equity Advisory Council (Rush Hospital) and he is a member of the Investment Committee of Align Impact. He also serves at the ESCP business school Research Center for Energy Management (Member of the Advisory Board); French American Cultural Exchange (FACE - Founding member of FACE in Chicago) and a member of various committees of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

In 2014 he was named in the Financial News "Top 40 under 40 Rising Stars in Asset Management" in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In 2017, Mamadou was named a "40 under 40" by Crain's Chicago Business. In 2017 he was also recognized in Top 50 Individuals who contribute the most sustainable & responsible investment industry in the world (IRRI). He is a fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago since 2019, a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and an adjunct professor of ESG Investing at the Baumhart Center (Loyola University Chicago). Mamadou is a French Foreign Trade Advisor, appointed by decree of the Prime Minister of France.

Anders Rox Hansen

Managing Director, Global Client Lead for Aladdin Sustainability 

Anders Rox Hansen, Managing Director, is a member of BlackRock Solutions' Executive Management team and the Global Client Lead for Aladdin Sustainability. In his role Mr. Hansen is responsible for our client engagement, product and commercial offering across the Aladdin sustainable investing capabilities, including ESG and Climate Risk. Prior to this, Mr. Hansen was the Head of the Aladdin Client Engagement Group EMEA, responsible for the BlackRock Solutions team that provides the dedicated risk and financial technology solutions for the various investment management product lines offered by BlackRock in EMEA.
Mr Hansen's service with the firm dates back to 1994, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. Post merger Mr Hansen was involved in establishing and building out the Aladdin business in Europe, including its Risk and Analytics capabilities as Head of the EMEA Client Analytics Group. At MLIM, Mr. Hansen was the EMEA Fixed Income Co-ordinator responsible for all non-investing functions reporting into the Fixed Income portfolio management group. In addition, he played a leading role on the integration team overseeing the merger of BlackRock and MLIM which was completed in October 2006. Prior to joining MLIM, he was the Chief Administrative Officer for the Benelux and Nordic Regions for Merrill Lynch International (MLI). He began his career in the financial markets in 1994 at Merrill Lynch International (MLI) in their Graduate Programme.
Mr. Hansen earned a BA degree, with honors, in European business & administration from the European Business School in London in 1994.

Will Freiberg

CEO
Crux 

Will Freiberg is a technology executive and entrepreneurial leader with significant cross-functional expertise across sales, product, business development, customer success, and strategic initiatives.

Most recently, he was Co-CEO at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), a platform that simplifies and automates the difficult tasks needed for enterprise Kubernetes in production at scale. During his six-year tenure at D2iQ, he held various leadership positions and led the company through hypergrowth as it helped define the cloud-native container industry.

Will started his career as an analyst at the Bank of New York Mellon. He was also Founder and CEO of eCommerce startup Tipping Basket, and worked in the Venture Capital and Technology Practice of Gunderson Dettmer, as well as the M&A Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Will is currently a CEO mentor and an early-stage investor in a variety of new technology spaces, acting as an advisor to Iterative.ai and a Board Member at Trilio. He holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and a JD from Columbia Law School.

Grainne Lynch

Senior Managing Consultant Supply Chain Sustainability
IBM Consulting (UKI)

Linda Giuliano

CEO & Founder, BrightWorld ESG

Linda is the CEO and founder of BrightWorld ESG, a consultancy firm that partners with clients to integrate principles of environmental stewardship, social, and corporate governance (ESG) principles into strategy, policies and processes to achieve measurable objectives beyond aspirational goals.

Prior to founding BrightWorld, Linda held leadership positions at AllianceBernstein (AB) investment management. Over the span of three decades, Linda was selected to lead a variety of strategic initiatives. She was the firm’s first Head of Responsible Investing, where she created the firm’s platform of ESG capabilities, including establishing a first-of-its-kind climate education program in partnership with Columbia University.

Prior to taking on ESG responsibilities at AB, Linda was Chief Administrative Officer of Equities, where she oversaw financial management, operational risk, technological innovation, and talent management. Before joining the Equity Management senior team, Linda’s positions at AB included serving as the first Chief Operating Officer for Alternative Investments, and the first Director of Internal Consulting.

Linda is a Trustee of the Sherman College of Chiropractic, and serves on the Executive and Advisory Committees of the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, a M.B.A. from Cornell University, and holds a certificate in Artificial Intelligence in Business Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Chandrika Arya

SVP, Customer Experience
Crux

Chandrika Arya is the Senior VP of Customer Experience at Crux and is responsible for customer experience strategy and voice of customer (VoC) programs. She and her team focus on identifying customer needs and finding effective solutions, including defining and aligning customer journeys from onboarding to enablement and value realization.
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Prior to Crux, Chandrika served as Chief Customer Officer at SchoolMint, where she was responsible for professional and technical services, customer success, and technical support. She has extensive experience designing and delivering SaaS software implementations across several domains, including edtech, healthcare, security, and sales operations. Chandrika has also held various customer-facing roles at Nextlabs, CallidusCloud, PGE, and Kaiser Permanente.

Tim Whitehead

Head of Sustainability Risk – Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs

Tim Whitehead leads Sustainability Risk globally for Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in the Sustainable Finance Group. In addition, he advises clients on ESG performance, supports stakeholder engagement, and assists with the development and implementation of the firm's climate change strategy and related reporting.

Tim also sits on the firmwide Physical Commodity Review Committee, which evaluates risks associated with engaging in, investing in, or financing of physical commodity activities that may have an impact on the environment or human health and safety. He joined Goldman Sachs as an Associate in 2010, and previously worked in the Environmental Markets Group and Derivatives Prime Services teams.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Providence College and his M.B.A. with a concentration in corporate social responsibility from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Tim also holds an Energy Risk Professional certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Tanya Seajay

CEO and Founder
Orenda Software Solutions, a SIX company

Tanya Seajay is the Founder and CEO of Orenda Software Solutions Inc, a Canadian Alternative Data company established in 2015 with offices in Toronto, Ontario and Membertou, Nova Scotia.
Tanya is a thought leader when it comes to calculating a company’s alignment with society’s values, validating a company’s Environmental, Social and Governance actions, as well as its progress in contributing to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. This has led her and the Orenda team to the capital markets, providing large and actionable datasets that blend with traditional data to create financial models that predict market movements and generate alpha.
Tanya has a Master of Communications Management degree from McMaster University and is a graduate of journalism. She is an alumna of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference for emerging leaders and has held numerous community leadership roles. She is the proud mother of two adult boys, one who is attending the Royal Military College to be a pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces, and a second son who is attending Holland College to become a chef.

John George

Director, Responsible Investing
Nuveen 

John George is a Director and member of the Responsible Investing (RI) Team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA. John’s responsibilities include developing Nuveen’s strategic foresight on issues related to ESG integration, engagement, stewardship, and investment.

Prior to joining Nuveen in 2021, John worked at BlackRock as a Strategist within the Sustainable Products group. He joined BlackRock after spending four-and-a-half years at Lord Abbett, an asset management firm primarily focused on fixed income markets. At Lord Abbett, John was responsible for establishing the firm’s ESG strategy, authoring the RI policy, training investment professionals and client-facing teams on ESG issues, and developing and fundraising for new products such as the Climate Focused Bond Fund. In addition to this experience, John has worked in roles across equity research and investment banking, covering renewable energy companies, utilities, and independent power producers.

John is currently pursuing a Master’s of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia University’s Climate School. He is also a Fellow at ClimateBase and holds a Bachelor’s in Finance from Rutgers University.

David M. Alt, CFA, CFP®

Director of Responsible Investing
Victory Capital Management

David Alt, CFA, serves as Director of Responsible Investing. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and reports to Kelly Cliff, President, Investment Franchises.
Mr. Alt supports integration and reporting of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics across Victory Capital’s investment products and enterprise. In collaboration with the investment teams, he advances existing ESG practices and refines the use of ESG data in investment processes. As chair of the Company’s Proxy Committee, he oversees the Company’s proxy voting policies and procedures while assisting investment teams to engage with management teams at portfolio companies on ESG-related issues.

In addition, Mr. Alt also helps lead Victory Capital’s Diversity, Inclusion, Cohesion, and Engagement Committee and oversees the Company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

David has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Victory Capital, he served as Senior Vice President, Head of Responsible Investing, at PNC Financial Services Group.
He is a CFA Charterholder, holds the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designation, and earned M.A. and B.B.A. degrees in Economics from Kent State University.
David is an active member and past president of the CFA Society of Cleveland.

Dania Kodeih

Head of Program Management, ESG and Climate
MSCI

Dania Kodeih is head of program management for ESG and Climate at MSCI. She joined MSCI in 2021 and has a background in technical program management for technology as well as cloud and solution architecture. Her technology experience has focused on cloud-native data management, data lifecycle orchestration and data workflows across multiple industries, namely Energy, manufacturing and finance

Truman Semans

CEO
OS-Climate

Truman Semans is Chief Executive Officer of OS-Climate (OS-C), a part of the Linux Foundation (LF). OS-Climate a breakthrough Open Source solution for climate-aligned finance, investing, and financial regulation. Using the proven Linux Foundation approach for community-driven projects to solve complex challenges, OS-Climate is a non-profit data and modeling platform that enables investment decisionmakers to run scenario-based predictive analysis for accurately forecasting and pricing risk and opportunity related to physical climate impacts and economic transition. Responding to the universal call for more rigorous, transparent, and affordable climate data, OS-C's Data Commons will provide corporate and other climate related data as a public good.

Previously, Truman was CEO of Element Capital Advisors, helping family offices and foundations integrate climate and ESG into their portfolios. He was a Partner of strategy consultancy GreenOrder, helping clients including private equity firms, Morgan Stanley, Google, GM, GE, Duke Energy, SABIC, and DuPont drive growth and profitability through investments in environmental innovation, resource efficiency, and clean technology. Truman led the Pew Business Environmental Leadership Council, and he co-founded the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) and the U.S. Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance (USPREF). Truman consulted with McKinsey & Co., served as the U.S. Treasury Department International Economist for global environment, and was the financial mechanisms lead on the U.S. Climate Change Negotiating Team.

He has an MBA and BA from Duke University and a Masters in International Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He serves on the Investment Committee of the National Wildlife Federation and the Advisory Board of Coast Capital, LLC.

David Harris

Global Head of Sustainable Finance Strategy
London Stock Exchange Group

David is responsible for sustainable investment and finance strategy for LSEG working within the Data and Analytics business. He has worked in sustainable investment for over 20 years, with most of that time at LSEG and FTSE Russell.
David has held a variety of industry positions, including being a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance. David represents LSEG as a co-lead of the GFANZ workstream on Real-Economy Transition. He is an Advisory Board member of the Oxford University led UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment, he has also been a Vice-Chair of UKSIF, serving on Advisory Committees for the UN backed PRI and EuroSIF, City of London’s Green Finance Initiative, and he Chaired the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange's work to develop both Model ESG and Climate Reporting Guidance. His career started with ADL’s Environment & Risk Practice, and PwC's climate change consulting.

Jennifer Grzech

Director, Responsible Investing
Nuveen

Jennifer Grzech is a director and member of the responsible investing (RI) team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.

Nuveen’s responsible investing team oversees the firm’s holistic RI vision and unified framework across Nuveen and TIAA, partnering with internal stakeholders to implement it in day-to-day business activities. Nuveen’s RI framework establishes the firm’s overall RI philosophy as well as guidelines for incorporating RI disciplines in investment decisions and new product development.

Jennifer’s responsibilities include developing Nuveen’s strategy of engagement with companies, policy-makers, regulators and industry organizations around important ESG issues and standards.

Prior to joining Nuveen in 2019, Jennifer worked in investor relations at Brookfield Asset Management where she led business intelligence strategy and supported marketing and thought leadership. She began her financial services career in private equity where she led the integration of environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) in investment processes.

Jennifer received her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky.

Mark Etherington

CTO
Crux

Mark is the Chief Technology Officer of Crux Informatics, overseeing Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Operations, and Information Technology initiatives.

Mark started his career at Logica, a UK software house, and later worked at J.P. Morgan, where he built major systems across the firm as well as headed their distributed computing group globally.

After joining Goldman Sachs in the mid-2000s, Mark led both their infrastructure group in EMEA and the Application Systems Infrastructure group that established virtualization within the firm and led to the development of the Goldman private cloud. Leaving the firm in 2015 to help bring a trading spin-off to the market, Mark joined Thomson Reuters through acquisition in 2017. Prior to joining Crux, he was also the Global Head of Trading Technology at Refinitiv.

Mark lives in New York with his wife Louise, has three children, and loves travel and skiing. Fun fact: he played a US Senator in a zombie TV episode and is happy to report that he died well.

​​Ángel Agudo

VP of Product and Member of the Board
Clarity.AI

Ángel is currently the VP of Product and a Member of the Board at Clarity AI. He joined the company in 2017, when it was founded, as the Head of Research. Clarity AI, which is headquartered in New York, has since grown to more than 200 employees and has received funding from SoftBank, BlackRock and Deutsche Börse, in addition to other leading venture capital firms. Clarity AI has won several industry awards including special recognition from the World Economic Forum in 2020 as a Tech Pioneer.
Prior to his current role at Clarity AI, Ángel helped develop disruptive methodologies for impact measurement, including the first quantitative methodology – to measure the impact of companies – as aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) framework.
Before joining the corporate world, Ángel worked in academia. For more than 10 years, he was active in research, contributing to dozens of conferences, books and publications and serving as a visiting fellow at the Harvard University Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. He also served as the youngest professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He received a degree in Telecommunication Engineering and Business Administration, MSc in Innovation Management, and PhD in Economics from UPM. Most recently, Angel completed post-graduate programs in Entrepreneurship at Harvard and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Brian O'Kelley

CEO
Scope3 

Brian O’Kelley is CEO and co-founder of Scope3, the source of truth for supply chain emissions data.

A respected entrepreneur and executive with a track record of building companies that have defined and led multi-billion dollar categories, Brian was the co-founder and CEO of AppNexus through its $1.6B sale to AT&T in 2018. He co-founded Waybridge, a supply chain technology company, and served as CTO of Right Media through its successful acquisition by Yahoo.

Credited with the invention of programmatic advertising and the online ad exchange, Brian is deeply committed to technology-driven innovations that benefit society while improving the health of the planet.

Brian is an active board member of Tech:NYC. He has been named to Crain’s 40 Under 40, Adweek 50 and Silicon Alley 100 lists, holds multiple patents, and was recognized as an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in the New York region in 2012. Brian was an early supporter of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms and is deeply committed to making the technology industry more inclusive.

Brian has a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and two cats.

Kellyn Cochell

SVP, Director of Data Feed Sales
FactSet

Mrs. Kellyn Cochell is SVP, Senior Director of Data Feed Sales at FactSet. In this role, she manages the global content and technology solutions sales team focusing mainly on quantitative strategies and more generally, data consumption and digital transformation within asset management firms. Throughout her career, she has built extensive experience working with API and feed solutions across a variety of workflows in Asset Management, Wealth Management, Insurance, Pension Funds, Corporates, and Brokerage firms across the Americas. Mrs. Cochell earned a BS in Business from the University of Oregon.

Phil Chadney

Research Analyst, AWS ESG Financial Services 
AWS

Phil Chadney is a research analyst within Amazon Web Service’s Financial Service EMEA business and market development team. In this role, he is responsible for AWS’ ESG in Financial Services Go-to-Market efforts – working with customers to understand and solve their ESG data challenges by leveraging AWS. Phil joined AWS in 2019 after nearly ten years working in B2B commercial and research positions supporting the financial services and energy industries.

Davida Heller

Head of Sustainability Strategy 
Citi

Davida is Head of Sustainability Strategy at Citi. Her work centers on the development and execution of Citi’s sustainability initiatives and programs, including the bank’s Sustainable Progress Strategy and $1 trillion sustainable finance commitment by 2030. She engages with company-wide global business functions, regional banking teams and external stakeholders to advise and build company-wide awareness of ESG, sustainability and climate related trends, opportunities and risks.

Prior to joining Citi in 2014, Davida was Head of Member Engagement at The Climate Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to driving action to create a net-zero emission global economy, where she worked with Fortune 500 companies on greenhouse gas emissions reduction initiatives.

Before that she was at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and managed corporate relations and oversaw professional development for the institute’s sustainability-related education programs. Previously, she worked in consulting and feature film production and development.

Davida serves on the board of the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and The Last Animals Foundation. She has an M.S. from Columbia University in sustainability management and a B.A. in media studies from George Washington University.

Dan Lynn

SVP, Product
Crux

Dan is a serial startup founder and a Techstars graduate, bringing two decades of experience building data-centric software businesses. Dan joined Crux from Precisely, where he led product strategy and user experience for a complex portfolio of products in the data integration, data quality, data governance, and master data management markets.

Prior to Precisely, Dan led product and engineering at Hitachi Vantara, launching several new products in the industrial Internet-of-Things and cloud-native verticals. Previously, Dan was also CEO at AgilData, a high-performance structured streaming data management company, and founding CTO at FullContact, an enterprise identity resolution platform.

On the side, Dan invests in and advises early-stage companies on product and technology issues.

Andy Golub

Head of ESG Risk Framework, Market Risk and Capital Management Oversight
First Citizens Bank

Andy Golub started his career in finance as an accidental banker, arriving at Wall St during the go-go 1990s after studies at the University of Chicago looking at the intersection of history, anthropology and economics. Beginning with Lehman Brothers, he spent the next 15 years supporting structured finance solutions across a range of domains ranging from emerging markets, credit derivatives, energy derivatives, alternative assets, banking-insurance convergence, and CDOs; until the financial crisis provided a clear and definitive lesson on the full impact of low frequency – high severity outcomes. The next 15 years have been spent in pursuit of a more connected understanding of risk, to understand the direct impact of financial exposures, second order impacts on portfolios and capital/liquidity adequacy, and the broader system beyond immediate financial considerations.

Trevor David

Director of Client Relations, Sustainalytics

As a Director on Sustainalytics’ Client Relations team, Trevor leads the North American Client Advisory team, supporting asset managers and asset owners to integrate ESG research and ratings into their investment strategies. Trevor has led various projects to support investors in developing sustainable investment approaches and creating sustainable fund products. He is a regular blog contributor and co-author of the report, ‘How Investors Integrate ESG: A Typology of Approaches’ (2017). Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Trevor held sustainability-focused roles in the public and private sector. Trevor is a CFA Charterholder, and is a recipient of ‘Canada's Clean 50 - 2019 Emerging Leader’ and ‘2019 SRI Conference 30 Under 30’ awards.

Todd Arthur Bridges

Global Head of Sustainable Investing & ESG Research
Arabesque

Todd is Partner and Global Head of Sustainable Investing & ESG Research with Arabesque whose expertise lies at the intersection of sustainable finance, climate finance, market governance, investment research, and technology. He has worked with global institutional investors across central banks, sovereign wealth funds, state pensions, corporate pensions, foundations, endowments, family offices, and advisors, etc. His passion is on building products (data, models, investments) that are theoretically motivated by academic and industry research but pragmatic in their design to ensure investors and companies can more quickly transition to a more sustainable form of capitalism – one that accounts for externalities and focuses on people, planetary boundaries, enterprise value creation, and sustainable profits.
Todd attended formal training at Brown University, Harvard University, University of Chicago, and Cornell University in the United States, and secured research fellowships at Oxford University and the Max Planck Society in Europe. He holds a B.Sc. in Finance, Economics, and Philosophy, MA in Socioeconomics, Org Behavior, and Research Methods, and Ph.D. in Socioeconomics, Org Behavior, and Research Methods. He sits on advisory committees at Harvard Business School, Yale University School of Management, and NYU Stern.

Matt Glickman

VP, HEAD OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
SNOWFLAKE

Matt is an industry leader in enterprise data platforms. For over 20 years, he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms at Goldman Sachs.

As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1T asset management business. Matt also co-led Goldman’s risk management platform where his team built Goldman’s first, company-wide data warehouse that helped it navigate the 2008 financial crisis.

In 2015, Matt joined Snowflake to run Product Management and then went on to launch the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Today Matt leads the Financial Services business globally where he is driving customer and product strategy for one of Snowflake’s most important industry verticals.

David Millman

Principal Sales Engineer | Crux

David is a data first thought leader, he has been helping organizations transform by applying data to solve new and existing problems. At Crux, David is actively working with customers on understanding how external data can be used to create a complete Supply Chain 360 model that can be provide signals to the disruptive world while creating Level 3 ESG reports.

Prior to Crux, David worked as a technology specialist for multiple companies, in the Privacy, Cloud, Big-Data and Real-time systems so brings many years of practical experience on how to apply data and technology to business problems.

Michael Aguiling

Strategic Data Advisor | Crux

Michael Aguiling has recently joined Crux as Strategic Data Advisor. He will be focused on Data Strategy and creating a sustainable data revenue ecosystem for both our suppliers and consumers. His initial focus will be on our supplier and Cloud relationships.

Michael has a deep background in financial services, spent 12 years in JPMorgan Chase in various technology roles focused on data commercialization. He was also with a data startup (Regulatory Data Corp.) that focused on entity resolution and data revenue for a number of clients including Google, Facebook, ING Bank, ABN Amro, Monzo, etc. Most recently, he led the technology value creation unit of Cerberus Capital, a private equity firm with 300+ portfolio companies. He has sat on various Boards and has invested in a number of technology startups. He was recently names to UCLA's Data Theory Advisory Board earlier this year.

Chris Handy

Senior Product Marketing Manager | Crux

Chris Handy is a seasoned marketing leader with extensive experience leading go-to-market teams across product marketing, demand generation, and sales enablement with a knack for narrative design and storytelling.

Having worked in startups in various stages from inception through IPO, Chris brings two decades of experience and a unique perspective to everything he does.
Chris joined Crux from Rasa, where he led product marketing initiatives and built out a Enablement and Voice of the Customer Programs. Chris has helped launched dozens of products in his career, and advises companies in early stages on product marketing as well. Chris is currently focused on building the product marketing function here at Crux.

When not focused on marketing, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife Bethany, their children Harper & Weston; and his family’s two dogs, Frank & Camille.