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Host: Michael Bondar, Enterprise Trust Leader, Deloitte Business Transactions and Analytics LLP
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Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Dina Trainor, ESG Controllership Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Kristen Sullivan, US Audit & Assurance Sustainability and ESG Services Leader
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Investors are increasingly integrating sustainability factors into their fundamental analyses and decision-making. Rising demand for sustainability data stems, in part, from stakeholder pressure, regulatory developments, and growing opportunities to glean insights about the business. What sustainability data do investors use and trust most, and how can organizations meet this demand? This session features the latest research conducted by Deloitte in collaboration with the Fletcher School at Tufts University. We’ll discuss:
- Investor demand for sustainability data
- Strategies and approaches for integrating sustainability data into investment analyses
- Sustainability data investors seek and trust most
Meet the speakers
Michael Bondar
Michael Bondar is a principal in the Risk & Financial Advisory business leading Deloitte’s Enterprise Trust offering. He focuses on helping clients improve organizational performance by building, protecting and enhancing levels of trust for companies across a wide range of stakeholder groups. Bondar spent the first decade of his career leading business process transformation and ERP implementation programs for global clients across consumer, life sciences & health care, and technology, media & telecom industries. Then, after spending time as a technology executive at a leading software company, he returned to Deloitte to lead the firm’s Global Innovation efforts focused on the development, scaling, and commercialization of our various technology-based solutions. Today, Bondar resides in Boca Raton, FL with his wife and two children. Holding a degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and after growing up in Kansas City, he is an avid sports fan of the Chiefs, Royals and his alma-mater Kansas Jayhawks.
Dina Trainor
Dina is a managing director in Deloitte’s Controllership practice where she leads the ESG reporting initiative and assists organizations with implementing ESG reporting solutions. With nearly 20 years of experience, she also focuses on helping clients through accounting and reporting transformations, including operating model optimization, process and policy enhancements, and system and data alignment. Additionally, she assists clients with their technical accounting matters. The Wall Street Journal has quoted Dina on ESG reporting, the impacts to the controller’s organization and automation opportunities. Dina received a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Science in Accounting from Michigan State University. She is a member of the AICPA and Massachusetts Society of CPAs and is a licensed CPA in Massachusetts.
Kristen Sullivan
Kristen B. Sullivan is an Audit & Assurance partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP and leads Sustainability and ESG Services. She also serves as the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s Global Audit & Assurance Sustainability and Climate Services Leader and the Integrated Reporting Community of Practice Leader. Kristen brings extensive experience in delivering sustainability risk assessment, governance, strategy alignment, measurement, reporting, and assurance services. Given the growing market emphasis on the importance of ESG standards and frameworks, Kristen serves as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Community, she chairs the AICPA Sustainability Advisory and Assurance Task Force and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)/AICPA Task Force. She previously served on the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Working Group. Kristen has authored a number of publications around the importance of sustainability and ESG disclosure and assurance. She was named a 2024 Women in Sustainability Leadership Award winner, #23 on the 2023 Onalytica top 50 ESG influencers list, recognized as an ESG, Diversity, and Climate Trailblazer as part of Diligent’s 2023 Modern Governance 100 nominees, and #10 on the 2020 Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders list. Kristen has more than 25 years of experience with Deloitte, beginning her career in Deloitte’s Audit and Advisory Services, working in Deloitte’s National Office in several capacities, and working with the deputy CEO of Deloitte LLP focused on regulatory and public policy matters. Kristen is a CPA (CT, MO) and CGMA and earned SASB’s Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential. Kristen completed the Berkeley Law Executive Education Certification: ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role and the Diligent Institute Climate Leadership Certification. Kristen is a member of the Financial Women’s Association and lives in Greenwich, CT, with her five-year-old daughter.
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