SUSTAINOMETRIC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Founder
Kanchan is the Executive Director at Sustainometric. She has over 16 years of experience combining responsible investment research across various ESG strategies, project management, and advisory support to ESG raters and fund managers on ESG integration.
Kanchan has covered multiple sectors and themes such as key commodity supply chains (palm oil, soy, meat), financials, and human rights.
She has also extensive experience in responsible investing policy and strategy development. Leveraging her years of experience in responsible investing research, she founded Sustainometric in 2017. Prior to Sustainometric, she has worked with various companies such as Profundo, Robeco, and Evalueserve in varied roles around responsible investment research and advice. Kanchan holds a Master in Business Management in Finance.
Nitesh leads the Impact Research team at Sustainometric. Overall he has more than 7 years of experience in investment research. As an Head of Impact Research, he manages the team focussing on impact research related projects.
Nitesh has a keen interest in Sustainability and Climate Change. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Nitesh was working as business analyst at EL Dynamics. Earlier, Nitesh was managing a PAN India project for an international client (in a third party set-up) and was responsible for product promotion & development. He holds a Master's degree in Management with a specialisation in Finance and Marketing.
Job Titles:
- ACIP 's Co - Founder and Managing Partner
Peter Mufut is ACIP's Co-Founder and Managing Partner. With over 15 years of professional experience, he has successfully led and participated in innovative, developmental, and financially viable investments of over USD 100 million across emerging and frontier market economies. Peter represented ASER Capital's business from The Netherlands as a Senior Investment Manager, managed the European Investor Relations, and mobilized private capital for private sector companies in Africa and Latin America. Prior to joining ASER Capital,
Peter van der Werf is Engagement Specialist, covering the Consumer Staples, Healthcare and Chemicals sectors. His areas of expertise include impact investing, labor rights, supply chain management, access to medicine and nutrition and social & environmental issues in the Food & Agri sector. He is an Advisory Committee member of a number of PRI working groups such as Agricultural Supply Chain, Sustainable Palm Oil and Deforestation.
Peter gained over four years of professional experience in business development in frontier markets before joining Robeco in 2011. He holds a Master's in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University.
Rajani leads the ESG Research and operations at Sustainometric. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing all the ESG projects, service delivery, and client satisfaction.
She has more than 13 years of experience working in various management roles. She specialises in themes such as animal farming, gender diversity, and green revenues. In her current role, Rajani is also responsible for analysts upskilling, training, and resource planning. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Rajani was managing the sales team a local electronic company and was responsible for achieving sales targets. Earlier, Rajani was managing a team of 25 people and was responsible for productivity and delivery at Hutchison Essar (now Vodafone). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Allahabad University."
Rajeev is a Research Lead at Sustainometric heading its diversity practice. His core skills include project management, team management, research process transformations, productivity and quality management. He joined Sustainometric in January 2019. Overall he has 8 years of experience in managing teams with high quality output. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Rajeev was working with Matrix Cellular International and was leading a team for tracking unbilled usage. He also worked for Kotak Mahindra Bank as a Manager leading sales team for retail banking. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Science from Magadh University.
Sanchaya is a Research Lead at Sustainometric and heads its key commodities practice. In her role she ensures end-to-end project delivery of commodities research projects. She has managed and delivered projects on palm oil, soy, rubber, and timber and pulp. She holds a master degree in business administration with a specialization in finance and human resource from Abdul Kalam Technical University.
Job Titles:
- Head of ESG Technology and Service Expansion
Sarfaraz is Head of ESG Technology and Service Expansion at Sustainometric. He is responsible for the amalgamation of technology in our research processes and keeps a close eye on the technology side of developments in the sustainability research and reporting area. He has spent about 16 years in financial research. His experience varies from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. In 2010 he was bitten by an entrepreneurial bug and promoted a company to serve the XBRL reporting needs of small reporting companies in the US.
Prior to that, he worked with companies ranging from sub-consulting to Investment Banking in a variety of Finance and Banking Services including Escorts Securities, Evalueserve, and HSBC. He has an MBA in Finance and IT from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. When he is not working, he loves to spend time with his family and read books.
Shalini is a Research Lead at Sustainometric and leads its Social indicators team. She has worked on and managed various projects focused on children's rights, gender diversity, and workforce disclosure. She holds a master's degree in Economics with a specialization in econometrics from Bananas Hindu University.
She collaborates with various heads for resourse planning and is responsible for recruitment, on-boarding and orientation, organizing people engagement activities, idea generation to influence and motivate employees for work life balance.
Additionally, she prepares management dashboard for resource utilization, project profitability etc. She strongly believe in sustainability as a concept and encourage companies and investors to take the signals seriously.
Prior to joining Sustainometric, she was Program manager for student exchange programs GOTA, organising and managing exchange programs.She holds a Master's degree in Management with a specialisation in Finance and Marketing.