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You’re hired! CSR leaders join major companies
Featured this week: Kathy Alsegaf, Deloitte; Alex Davidson, Cisco; Mike Shannon, KPMG; Anne Simpson, Franklin Templeton; Jamie Stacey, Dutch Bros Coffee; Eversheds Sutherland; MassMutual; Moody’s; Onsemi; Prudential; SMBC; Tanger Outlets; TC Energy; Western Digital; Aramark; Tanya Barnes and Osei Van Horne, JPMorgan Chase; Vanguard; Verizon; Factset; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Booz Allen Hamilton, Plexus Worldwide, PwC
The member community convened by Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is one of a kind. The 500+ companies we serve each year around the globe are leaders in environmental, social, and governance action, and the thousands of individuals who make up this network are some of the best in the field!
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Kathy Alsegaf, global internal sustainability leader at Deloitte, was quoted by CNN Business for the article, Want to keep your workers? Change your climate policies. Alsegaf discussed Deloitte's 2022 CxO Sustainability Report, which reports more than three-quarters of global executives say climate change policies affect their ability to attract and retain talent. "It's not just a 'nice to have,' but it can affect their ability to retain staff," said Alsegaf.
Alex Davidson has joined Cisco, leading supply chain-related communications for the Circular Economy, Sustainability, Security, Risk Management, and Resiliency team. Davidson joins the team from the Value Reporting Foundation, formerly the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
Mike Shannon has been appointed to the newly created role of Global Head of ESG Assurance at KPMG. Shannon will be responsible for embedding and executing on ESG Assurance as part of KPMG’s overall global audit strategy and further embedding ESG across the global organization. The creation of the new role follows KPMG’s multi-year program aimed at accelerating global solutions for ESG issues and supporting clients in their own sustainability efforts.
Anne Simpson is joining global investment manager Franklin Templeton for the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, responsible for leading the firm’s global stewardship, sustainability and ESG strategy. Simpson joins the firm from California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), where she led the development and execution of CalPERS’ Sustainable Investment Strategy, as well as CalPERS’ investment office diversity, equity and inclusion business initiative.
Jamie Stacey of Dutch Bros Coffee has been promoted to Senior Manager of Social Impact. Stacey most recently served as Philanthropy Manager at Dutch Bros.
Job Postings
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Chestnut Hill, MA
Assistant Director, Member Recruitment
Fiscal Specialist Marketing
Database Analyst
Senior/Executive Education & Advisory Associate
Eversheds Sutherland
Atlanta, GA
Responsible Business Specialist
Moody's
Various Locations
Manager, Volunteer Programs
Assistant Vice President - Corporate Social Responsibility, Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Onsemi
Phoenix, AZ / Remote
Senior Director, Sustainability, Environmental Social and Governance
Senior Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility
Spring 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Intern, Sustainability team
Spring 2022 Corporate Social Responsibility Intern, Global Giving team
Prudential (Just added!)
Newark, NJ / Hybrid
Communications Director
SMBC
New York, NY
ESG Reporting & Disclosure Manager, Vice President
Tanger Outlets (Just added!)
Fully Remote or Hybrid
Director, Energy & Sustainability
TC Energy
Houston, TX
Advisor, Community and Workforce Giving - US
Western Digital
San Jose, CA
Corporate Sustainability Analyst
Aramark released its 2021 Be Well. Do Well. Impact Report, a significantly expanded version of its annual sustainability report that highlights processes to manage key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, and progress toward its sustainability goals. The report includes updates across the board on sustainability, including employee engagement, community impact, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. On the planet side, Aramark is reducing greenhouse gas emissions and committed to setting an enterprise-wide science-based target among other key performance metrics.
JPMorgan Chase's asset management arm has created a new private equity team to focus on sustainable investments, the bank's latest move to align its activities with its climate-change commitments. With an investment of up to $150 million, the team will target growth-stage private companies that build solutions related to climate adaptation and resource efficiency for various industries. The bank said it has hired Tanya Barnes, who previously headed Blackstone Inc's impact investing platform, to jointly manage the new team with Osei Van Horne who has been leading J.P. Morgan Asset Management's climate-focused growth equity investment practice since May last year.
Vanguard will expand its ESG lineup with a positive impact stock fund. The company filed an initial registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce Vanguard Baillie Gifford Global Positive Impact Stock Fund, which is designed to meet the needs of investors seeking actively managed global equity returns along with measurable impact on environmental and social challenges. Vanguard believes an active approach to impact investing enables skilled managers to better navigate the complexities of identifying companies driving positive change and build a portfolio with the potential to deliver on both excess return and impact objectives.
Verizon continues to be a leading corporate buyer of U.S. renewable energy, announcing seven new Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements for an aggregate of approximately 910 megawatts of projected renewable energy capacity. These agreements position the company to achieve its goal to source or generate renewable energy equivalent to 50% of its total annual electrical consumption by 2025, and help support Citizen Verizon, the company’s responsible business plan for economic, environmental, and social advancement.
This week, we proudly welcome new members Factset and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas! Learn more about joining them, along with more than 10,000 professionals in the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship member community: Member Benefits.
Members from Booz Allen Hamilton, Plexus Worldwide, PwC, and more registered this week to attend the International Corporate Citizenship Conference 2022. Learn more about joining them to learn and network with hundreds of professionals in the CSR field: Register today.
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