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May Hu

Head of Counterparty Risk Exposure
Capital One

May Hu

Head of Counterparty Risk Exposure
Capital One

May Hu

Head of Counterparty Risk Exposure
Capital One
 

Derek Jun

Head of Climate Risk
TIAA & Nuveen

Derek Jun

Head of Climate Risk
TIAA & Nuveen

Derek Jun

Head of Climate Risk
TIAA & Nuveen
 

Jenny Su

Director of Enterprise Risk
Santander Bank

Dr. Jenny (Jiwei) Su has over 24 years of experience in banking industry. She tells convincing risk management stories, leveraging her broad experience as an industry leader and practitioner and a bank regulator. She excels at developing strategics, collaborating, mobilizing resources and executing, while considering the demand of multiple stakeholders and the balance of risk and reward.

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Jenny Su

Director of Enterprise Risk
Santander Bank

Jenny Su

Director of Enterprise Risk
Santander Bank

Dr. Jenny (Jiwei) Su has over 24 years of experience in banking industry. She tells convincing risk management stories, leveraging her broad experience as an industry leader and practitioner and a bank regulator. She excels at developing strategics, collaborating, mobilizing resources and executing, while considering the demand of multiple stakeholders and the balance of risk and reward. You may see her in action on climate risk, strategic risk, risk ID, stress test, CECEL/IFRS9, while laying the groundwork for climate risk, or leading model development or leading model validation in a constructive way. She holds a PhD in economics. Her motto is ““Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” — Henry Ford

  • Aligning with and informing the firm’s risk appetite
  • How climate stress testing results can and should inform business decision making
  • Determining effective KPIs, KRIs and reporting metrics
  • How technology can and is supporting
Moderator

Author:

Rich Sorkin

CEO and Co-founder
Jupiter Intelligence

Jupiter Intelligence™ is the trusted leader in physical climate risk analytics for resiliency planning, risk management and disclosure. Jupiter’s customers include five percent of the world’s largest enterprises, many companies within the Global 2000, the U.S. Department of Defense, and public sector authorities in jurisdictions around the world. Its analytics have been adopted by at least one of the world’s five largest entities in asset management, banking, chemicals, insurance, oil and gas, minerals and mining, electric utilities, and construction.

The company is led by veterans of startups and global corporations, machine learning and satellite pioneers, and a Nobel Prize winner. The team includes scientists from NOAA, the National Science Foundation and the world’s leading universities.  

In Mr. Sorkin’s three-decade-long career as a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, executive, advisor, board member and investor, he has led breakthrough companies in numerous industries. Sorkin focuses on commercializing transformative technologies, with a significant concentration on financial services, energy, media, politics, and the environment.

A cofounder of multiple startups, Sorkin is the former Chair & CEO of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company providing analytics and visualization of geospatial data, acquired by HP. He was president of Kaggle prior to its acquisition by Google, leading the introduction of big data predictive analytics into the enterprise market. 

Sorkin began his career at NASA and Bain & Company. He helped initiate coverage of the supercomputer industry at Goldman Sachs and ran the Sound Blaster business at Creative Labs during the time it gained market dominance, growing revenues from under $100M to close to $1 billion.

Sorkin graduated from Yale University, where he was a research assistant to Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Lockheed Scholar. He has served as a Board Member of public companies, private firms, the Yale University Development Board, and several non-profit organizations.

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Rich Sorkin

CEO and Co-founder
Jupiter Intelligence

Jupiter Intelligence™ is the trusted leader in physical climate risk analytics for resiliency planning, risk management and disclosure. Jupiter’s customers include five percent of the world’s largest enterprises, many companies within the Global 2000, the U.S. Department of Defense, and public sector authorities in jurisdictions around the world. Its analytics have been adopted by at least one of the world’s five largest entities in asset management, banking, chemicals, insurance, oil and gas, minerals and mining, electric utilities, and construction.

The company is led by veterans of startups and global corporations, machine learning and satellite pioneers, and a Nobel Prize winner. The team includes scientists from NOAA, the National Science Foundation and the world’s leading universities.  

In Mr. Sorkin’s three-decade-long career as a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, executive, advisor, board member and investor, he has led breakthrough companies in numerous industries. Sorkin focuses on commercializing transformative technologies, with a significant concentration on financial services, energy, media, politics, and the environment.

A cofounder of multiple startups, Sorkin is the former Chair & CEO of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company providing analytics and visualization of geospatial data, acquired by HP. He was president of Kaggle prior to its acquisition by Google, leading the introduction of big data predictive analytics into the enterprise market. 

Sorkin began his career at NASA and Bain & Company. He helped initiate coverage of the supercomputer industry at Goldman Sachs and ran the Sound Blaster business at Creative Labs during the time it gained market dominance, growing revenues from under $100M to close to $1 billion.

Sorkin graduated from Yale University, where he was a research assistant to Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Lockheed Scholar. He has served as a Board Member of public companies, private firms, the Yale University Development Board, and several non-profit organizations.

Panelists

Author:

Matt Kaczmarek

Director
BlackRock
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Matt Kaczmarek

Director
BlackRock

Author:

Jenny Su

Director of Enterprise Risk
Santander Bank

Dr. Jenny (Jiwei) Su has over 24 years of experience in banking industry. She tells convincing risk management stories, leveraging her broad experience as an industry leader and practitioner and a bank regulator. She excels at developing strategics, collaborating, mobilizing resources and executing, while considering the demand of multiple stakeholders and the balance of risk and reward. You may see her in action on climate risk, strategic risk, risk ID, stress test, CECEL/IFRS9, while laying the groundwork for climate risk, or leading model development or leading model validation in a constructive way. She holds a PhD in economics. Her motto is ““Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” — Henry Ford

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Jenny Su

Director of Enterprise Risk
Santander Bank

Dr. Jenny (Jiwei) Su has over 24 years of experience in banking industry. She tells convincing risk management stories, leveraging her broad experience as an industry leader and practitioner and a bank regulator. She excels at developing strategics, collaborating, mobilizing resources and executing, while considering the demand of multiple stakeholders and the balance of risk and reward. You may see her in action on climate risk, strategic risk, risk ID, stress test, CECEL/IFRS9, while laying the groundwork for climate risk, or leading model development or leading model validation in a constructive way. She holds a PhD in economics. Her motto is ““Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” — Henry Ford

Author:

Tim Judge

Senior Vice President, Head of Modeling and Chief Climate Officer
Fannie Mae
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Tim Judge

Senior Vice President, Head of Modeling and Chief Climate Officer
Fannie Mae
  • Best practices and quick wins from the early rounds of climate stress testing internationally
  • Increasing climate risk model robustness and improving accuracy
  • Analysing the results of first round climate risk stress tests to promote further improvements in model risk development programs
  • Creating an ESG risk appetite
  • Implementing ESG Risk into wider business decision making 
  • Addressing the ongoing challenges of climate risk management within institutions
  • Accounting for the S and the G as much as the E for a competent approach
  • Overcoming changing market and consumer sentiment and their impact on reputation
  • Mitigating increasing reputational and conduct risk rising from enhanced regulatory scrutiny
  • Avoiding reputational damage from perceived greenwashing
Panellists

Author:

Jennifer Sullo

Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions
Earth Finance

Jen Sullo is Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions at Earth Finance. She brings significant expertise integrating sustainability into portfolio construction, investment, and due diligence processes as well as creating tailored, client-specific sustainable investment funds for private wealth and institutional investors – including corporate retirement plans, insurance reserves, non-profit investment portfolios, and financial intermediary platforms.   Prior to Earth Finance, Jen was Global Head of Sustainable Investing Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she was responsible for sustainable investing strategy, product development, and partnerships.  She graduated from Fairfield University with an M.S. in Finance and from Trinity College with a B.S. in Economics.

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Jennifer Sullo

Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions
Earth Finance

Jen Sullo is Managing Director of Asset Management and Investment Solutions at Earth Finance. She brings significant expertise integrating sustainability into portfolio construction, investment, and due diligence processes as well as creating tailored, client-specific sustainable investment funds for private wealth and institutional investors – including corporate retirement plans, insurance reserves, non-profit investment portfolios, and financial intermediary platforms.   Prior to Earth Finance, Jen was Global Head of Sustainable Investing Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she was responsible for sustainable investing strategy, product development, and partnerships.  She graduated from Fairfield University with an M.S. in Finance and from Trinity College with a B.S. in Economics.

Author:

Kirby Brendsel

Vice President ESG and Sustainability Director
Flagstar Bank

Kirby Brendsel is Flagstar Bank’s VP, Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Director, where he leads Flagstar's strategic sustainability and initiatives and the company's goal to be a recognized global sustainability leader.  He is coming from Welltower Inc.’s (a real estate investment trust) where he headed their award-winning strategic sustainability and ESG initiatives.  Prior to joining Welltower in 2019, Mr. Brendsel worked at Nuveen as a Director of Responsible Investing.  Before Nuveen, he served as Associate Director of Sustainability for Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide, where he supported the strategy, integration and management of Starwood’s sustainability program and worked collaboratively with the community programs/Starwood Foundation team on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy and reporting.  Previously, Mr. Brendsel consulted for Deloitte where he assisted in the creation of Deloitte’s Federal Sustainability practice and Diversity & Inclusion program.  Mr. Brendsel’s other past roles include active-duty service as a Military Intelligence Corps Major in the U.S. Army. 

Mr. Brendsel graduated with distinction and honors from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Business and the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University with an M.B.A. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Green Associate (GA), and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.  Mr. Brendsel was recently recognized as an Honoree for 2020 by Environment + Energy Leader’s annual "best of" list of environment and energy professionals - the E+E 100.   

Mr. Brendsel is active in his local community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Aspetuck Land Trust and Lachat Town Farm Commission as well as on the Town of Weston’s Sustainability Committee, Historical Society, and Conservation and Parks & Recreation Commissions. 

 

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Kirby Brendsel

Vice President ESG and Sustainability Director
Flagstar Bank

Kirby Brendsel is Flagstar Bank’s VP, Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Director, where he leads Flagstar's strategic sustainability and initiatives and the company's goal to be a recognized global sustainability leader.  He is coming from Welltower Inc.’s (a real estate investment trust) where he headed their award-winning strategic sustainability and ESG initiatives.  Prior to joining Welltower in 2019, Mr. Brendsel worked at Nuveen as a Director of Responsible Investing.  Before Nuveen, he served as Associate Director of Sustainability for Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide, where he supported the strategy, integration and management of Starwood’s sustainability program and worked collaboratively with the community programs/Starwood Foundation team on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy and reporting.  Previously, Mr. Brendsel consulted for Deloitte where he assisted in the creation of Deloitte’s Federal Sustainability practice and Diversity & Inclusion program.  Mr. Brendsel’s other past roles include active-duty service as a Military Intelligence Corps Major in the U.S. Army. 

Mr. Brendsel graduated with distinction and honors from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Business and the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University with an M.B.A. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Green Associate (GA), and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.  Mr. Brendsel was recently recognized as an Honoree for 2020 by Environment + Energy Leader’s annual "best of" list of environment and energy professionals - the E+E 100.   

Mr. Brendsel is active in his local community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Aspetuck Land Trust and Lachat Town Farm Commission as well as on the Town of Weston’s Sustainability Committee, Historical Society, and Conservation and Parks & Recreation Commissions. 

 

Author:

Laura Nishikawa

Managing Director of ESG Research
MSCI ESG Research
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Laura Nishikawa

Managing Director of ESG Research
MSCI ESG Research