As ESG becomes increasingly important for businesses, our new event series aims to bring you relevant and topical insights from experts across different sectors. We'll learn exactly what's on the ESG agenda and what needs to be the focus going forward.
Our Head of Energy, Jonathan Cohen, hosted a webinar with a focus on the investment funds market. Jonathan was joined by a panel of industry experts including:
Edward Vaughan Dixon, Head of ESG - Real Assets, Aviva Investors
Jesse Lee, CEO, Brooklyn Vendor Assurance
Lyn Tomlinson, Head of Impact, Cazenove Capital
They discussed a number of topics including the current regulatory pressures in this area, developing investor and fund expectations, and current examples of how businesses are approaching ESG compliance.
Our expert panel of speakers will explore themes such as green investments and current regulatory pressures, as well as discussing questions and topics put to them by event attendees.
Edward Vaughan Dixon
Head of ESG - Real Assets
Aviva Investors
Edward Vaughan Dixon
Edward is Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) for Aviva Investors’ £52bn Real Assets platform, leading the firm’s ESG strategy across real estate and infrastructure investment, development and asset management. Ed has 18 years’ industry experience, and most recently held the role of Sustainability Insights Director at Landsec, joining the business in January 2016 to lead integration of the company's sustainability strategy through strategy, research and governance functions. Ed is a recent graduate of the Sustainability Leadership course at Harvard in Boston, USA. He holds an Executive MBA with Distinction from Cass, one of the UK’s highest-ranking business schools.
Jesse Lee
CEO
Brooklyn Vendor Assurance
Jesse Lee
Jesse is CEO of Brooklyn Vendor Assurance, a venture-funded supply chain governance and automation platform that includes Sustainability/ESG as a core module. Jesse was also a Co-Founder of Apptio (Nasdaq: APTI) achieving five funding rounds, $136M venture investment, IPO: Sep 2016, and a $1.9B purchase by Vista Equity Partners. “Our mission is to digitise and automate the practice of vendor management for the world’s leading Procurement organisations globally”
Lyn Tomlinson
Head of Impact
Cazenove Capital
Lyn Tomlinson
Lyn has over 15 years' experience advising private clients, working exclusively with HNWs and UHNWs for 10 years. She is responsible for developing the impact investment and philanthropy client proposition for Cazenove Capital. Her focus is on helping clients maximise impact across all of their assets, whether that be through their grant making or their investment portfolio. During the pandemic, Lyn has been helping clients with their emergency response to the crisis, ensuring that additional funding was swiftly made to important charities, and planning for the next phase of the crisis as the long-term consequences of the coronavirus unfold.
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