PAUL ELLIS CONSULTING - Key Persons


Bruce Herbert

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Newground Social Investment, SPC & Investor Voice, SPC
  • Using Shareholder Engagement to Change Corporate Behavior
Herbert is an independent shareholder advocate, and a pioneer in the field beginning in the 90s when he served on the national governing board with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). He talks in detail about the engagement process and how to convert an adversarial approach into a conversation that brings results, including working […]

Georg Kell

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board at Arabesque
  • Contributor to Forbes
Kell, who is also a regular contributor to Forbes and the founding executive director of the UN Global Compact, talks about his recent article on the four lessons we should learn from the pandemic. Our conversation focused on Lesson #2: Prevention is better than cure. Kell discusses the danger of ignoring scientific evidence on climate […]

Katherine Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager / Global Sector Specialist at Schroders
Davidson explains how those corporations with good customer relationships and more sustainable corporate cultures pre-pandemic are more resilient during the pandemic, starting at the Board level and including a strong investment in their employees.

Stacy Swann

Job Titles:
  • CEO at Climate Finance Advisors, a Certified B - Corporation
Anyone working in finance needs to stay current with what's happening with climate finance and regulation because it affects the entire industry. And consolidation is happening within the climate reporting frameworks. Stacy Swann, the CEO of Climate Finance Advisors, my guest today, walks us through how banking and investment companies can use the data produced […]

Viola Lutz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director & Head of Investor Consulting at ISS ESG
Lutz describes the new US Diversity Index, the first of its kind for US companies and directors that includes ethnicity along with gender. We also discuss the launch of the Governance QualityScore (GQS) Index family, designed to help investors identify large and mid-cap companies with strong board structure and shareholder rights as well as those […]