The ESG Report

Cécilia Fellouse-Guenkel is a well known compliance practitioner in France. She and Tom Fox have worked together in live as well as virtual conferences. She moved into the compliance industry when she joined a medical device company in the US. Since then, she says, compliance has been her passion. She eventually opened her own compliance consulting business, called Compliance For Good. The name of...

Aaron Nicodemus has been a reporter for over 30 years in the US and South Africa, having written for various notable publications including Bloomberg. He has been a writer/reporter at Compliance Week for the last 18 months. He is Tom Fox’s guest this week on the ESG Report. They discuss his recent article about the intersection of ESG and compliance, entitled “Compliance Must Carve Out Role in Com...

Tom Fox welcomes Nick and Gio Gallo, brothers and co-CEOs of ComplianceLine, to this episode of the ESG Report. In this brief conversation, they talk about looking at ESG from a financial and corporate perspective, and helping compliance professionals navigate along that spectrum. Finance Vs Compliance Financial professionals would view ESG as an opportunity, as opposed to another task they'd have...

Tom Fox speaks on important issues to note in designing and implementing ESG programs. He shares an overview on the structure of ESG programs and explains why they should be led by compliance. ESG Internal Controls ESG programs must be tailored to fit your company’s risk profile, Tom explains. Companies must be able to identify, measure, and address all risks within ESG. “The ‘E’ is going to be mo...

Tom Fox speaks on the role of boards and management in ESG in this episode of the ESG Report. He was inspired by a recent article in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, written by Jurgita Ashley, Randi Van Morrison, et al., entitled ESG Governance: Board and Management Roles & Responsibilities.  Oversight The board has the responsibility of oversight in ESG matters, which can inc...

Tom Fox continues to explain why he believes Compliance is best to lead the ESG effort going forward. In this final part of his solo series, he focuses on response and enhancement. ESG Reporting Response and enhancement is familiar to compliance professionals as continuous monitoring leads to continuous improvement. Given the dynamic nature of ESG, companies will need to continuously improve their...

Tom Fox believes that the compliance department is best positioned to lead the ESG function, and in this solo episode, he continues to explain why. He focuses on reporting and ongoing monitoring which, he says, should lead to continuous improvement. ESG Reporting At first glance, ESG reporting may seem outside the scope of the compliance professional; if you look deeper, however, you’d realize tha...

Mike Munro has worked with global companies such as Dell Chemical, Baker Hughes, and Transocean, for more than 30 years. His last position before founding Global Compliance Management and Response (GCMR) was as Chief Compliance Officer at Odebrecht Engineering and Construction in Brazil. He joins Tom Fox on this week’s episode of the ESG Report to discuss GCMR, as well as moving from compliance to...

Tom Fox evangelizes on why the compliance department is best suited to run the corporate ESG program on this week’s episode of the ESG Report.  The Materiality Assessment Many regulatory frameworks view the risk assessment as the key foundational mechanism to identify risk for the corporate compliance program. In the ESG space, you need to understand material ESG matters, which transforms your sta...

Christian Perez Font, Managing Director of Thinkeen Legal, specializes in using data to help clients do traditional legal tasks. The legal department is a business support function, he tells host Tom Fox. He is licensed as an attorney in Venezuela and the USA, and opened Thinkeen Legal in 2018 to provide his clients with “business advice with legal content”, particularly in corporate, transactiona...

*This episode was aired on the Coffee and Regs podcast and is cross-posted here with permission.* Greg Hotaling is a Regulatory Content Manager at Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), specializing in global regulatory matters relevant to the financial industry. Marye Cherry is the EU Regulatory Counsel and Head of ESG at CSS. She is an expert in transparency and regulatory reporting issues in th...

*This episode was aired on the Coffee and Regs podcast and is cross-posted here with permission.* Greg Hotaling is a Regulatory Content Manager at Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), specializing in global regulatory matters relevant to the financial industry. Marye Cherry is the EU Regulatory Counsel and Head of ESG at CSS. She is an expert in transparency and regulatory reporting issues in th...

Bryan Sillaman, Head of the Paris office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, chats with Tom Fox about two articles he recently wrote in this week’s show. They discuss how to establish a corporate policy for ESG, as well as the renewable energy market and what’s driving its evolution. 5 Steps to Corporate ESG Policy Bryan tells Tom that Larry Fink’s message about climate risk being investment risk, as we...

Jonathan Armstrong, Partner at Cordery Compliance, joins Tom Fox on this episode of the ESG Report to discuss important supply chain issues in the EU and Baltic regions. They talk about how legislation has evolved and the importance of looking at ESG risks with a holistic view.  Evolution of Due Diligence Legislation “What have you seen legislative-wise around supply chain due diligence from that...

Tom Fox is pleased to welcome Stephen Martin, Partner at StoneTurn, to this week’s episode of the ESG Report. Stephen, an expert in ESG CSR, helps clients proactively improve their ESG programs so they can be better corporate citizens. He and Tom discuss the ESG framework he developed with his team, why mission and governance matter, and the exciting future of ESG. Mission and Governance at the Co...

Yven Heine is the Managing Director of StoneTurn. A risk professional with over 20 years of experience, he has worked as US CPA in all three lines of defense. He joins Tom Fox on this episode of the ESG Report to discuss a new German law on supply chain that has significant implications for ESG.  Germany’s New Supply Chain Law Any company with over 3000 employees that is based in or has a branch i...

Lisa Silverman is the Senior managing director at K2 Integrity, and she joins Tom Fox on the ESG Report to talk about the evolving boardroom challenges that companies are seeing in the United States and around the world. They touch on the changes in representation in boards, how social issues are becoming more important, and accountability in the public eye. Resources K2 Integrity Lisa Silverman...

Matt DiGuiseppe, currently the Vice President of Research and ESG at Diligent, started his career in proxy voting and corporate governance, a nascent ESG space, primarily around asset stewardship, engaging with companies around materials, environment, social, and governance topics. Back then – you were begging companies to come talk to you. The industry has come a long way, and now companies are e...

In this episode of The ESG report, Tom Fox discusses why Compliance Professionals should be leading the way when it comes to ESG initiatives - they’re uniquely suited to do it! From the importance of governance and transparency to the increasing value shareholders and investors are placing on it, to new tools and strategies for reporting and communicating returns and concerns, ESG should be top of...

Tom Fox welcomes Karen Woody, Assistant Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University and “uber SEC watcher”, to this week’s episode of the ESG Report. They have an engaging discussion about how the SEC views its role in advancing ESG, and how ESG can impact potential investment opportunities. Pushing ESG Forward The SEC is driving the conversation on ESG disclosures, Karen tells Tom. Their ne...

Gwen Hassan has been championing the fight against human trafficking for quite some time. The heartwrenching story of a young girl in SouthEast Asia brought the issue to her attention but realizing that human trafficking is also a local issue spurred her to take action. “And since that time,” Tom Fox commends her, “you have been one of the leaders to talk about this issue in the context of either...

Laura Tulchin is ESG Solutions Lead at Exiger. Her role involves ensuring that the company’s products and services provide comprehensive coverage of ESG risk. She tells Tom Fox that more and more companies are focusing on ESG as part of their mainstream risk management programs. She joins Tom in this episode of the ESG Report to talk about doing ESG right by managing risk and value generation. Get...

Lawrence Heim, the editor of PracticalESG.com, has been working in environmental sustainability for over 30 years, moving from one area of the industry to another and developing a deep knowledge of the space. PracticalESG.com is designed to help professionals approach program development, program implementation and disclosure, as well as understanding the basics from a practical point of view. He...

Trysha Daskam is back for part 2 of The ESG Report. In this episode, she and Tom Fox are discussing what investors are looking for regarding ESG, the rise of ESG products, and making your ESG policy actionable and regulator-friendly. ESG is a Must-Have Tom and Trysha discuss what companies seeking investment need to have regarding ESG. “Maybe a year ago,” she remarks, “ESG was nice to have... toda...

Introducing The ESG Report with Tom Fox  ESG has exploded into compliance and business consciousness in 2021, so as a compliance industry professional, you need to be up to date. To open up the show, Tom Fox is speaking with Trysha Daskam, the Head of ESG Strategy at Silver, a premier provider of regulatory compliance, ESG, and due diligence advisory services to the investment management industry....