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ESG: Leveraging Advanced Technology to Enhance Transparency & Returns

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Meet the Panelists

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Jeff Cohen
Director of Capital Markets Integration
SASB: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

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Jeff Cohen is the Director of Capital Markets Integration at SASB and the Head of Private Investments Initiatives. In his role, Mr. Cohen works with institutional investors and asset owners, facilitating dialogue on financially material ESG issues for implementation into investment decisions across private markets strategies.

Prior to joining SASB, Mr. Cohen was Head of Business Development at Sonen Capital, an ESG & Impact dedicated OCIO and fund manager. Prior to Sonen, he was a Director of Investment Opportunities at Venovate where he led due diligence on private and alternative investment strategies ranging from timber, real estate, hedge funds, and secondary strategies. Mr. Cohen has spent his career working with sophisticated investors at organizations such as Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Gerson Lehrman Group.

He holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BBA from the University of Michigan. Mr. Cohen is a CAIA Charter Holder and FSA Credential Holder.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an independent nonprofit organization that sets standards to guide disclosure of financially material sustainability information by companies to their investors.

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Dr. Heiko Bailer
Head of ESG Quant Investments
RepRisk

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Dr. Heiko Bailer joined RepRisk in 2019 and is responsible for building RepRisk’s quantitative investment business. As a former hedge fund manager, he is an expert in quantitative trading strategies.

Prior to joining RepRisk, Heiko co-founded the Swiss Fintech SmartStamp AG, as well as traded long/short US equities at GLAM, Goldcorp Land Asset Manager. Subsequent to that, Heiko was CIO at Swiss Trust Advisors AG and Plenum Investments.

Other previous appointments include: Head of Quantitative Solutions and Asset Allocation at Credit Suisse, Deputy CRO at Harcourt Investment Consulting, Director at Delta One Trading ABN AMRO London, and desk rotations at Deutsche Bank Global Markets in New York, Tokyo, and London.

Heiko received his Master of Science from Ludwig Maximilian University, in Munich, and his PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Maria Mähl
Partner, Head of Nordics
Arabesque Partners

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Maria Mähl is Partner of Arabesque Group, a global group of financial technology companies offering sustainable investment, advisory, and data services through advanced ESG and AI capabilities. Maria has worked with global leaders in the private, public and civil society sectors on policy development, investments strategies, operational excellence, program development and business development across industries in European, Asian, African, and American markets. Prior to joining Arabesque, Maria held senior positions at Volvo, Capgemini, the UN, and the Clinton Global Initiative. A native of Sweden, Maria has been awarded as one of Sweden's most powerful women in business world by Veckan's Affärer as well as was one of the leading sustainability leaders. Maria attended Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University in Sweden and holds a B.Sc. in Political Science and a M.Sc. in Business and Economics. She resides in New York with her family.

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Moderator:
Svetla Marinova

Partner Development Manager
Amazon Web Services

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Svetla is an experienced FinTech innovation strategist with expertise in the use of unstructured, ESG, and alternative data to enable investment decisions through Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. She currently manages Technology Partnerships for Financial Services at Amazon Web Services where she is responsible for expanding Amazon's Partner Network to include and grow fintechs of strategic value, with a focus on ESG and sustainable investing solutions.
 
She started her career in FinTech as a founding member and primary business analyst of the S&P Global Innovation Lab. She then led the Innovation Lab of APG Asset Management in New York, and was most recently a part of Grant Thornton’s FinTech innovation solutioning initiative, where she developed Grant Thornton’s sustainable investing and digital transformation offering for the Asset Management vertical.
 
Svetla holds a BA in Economics from Adelphi University’s Honors College, a Master's in Climate and Society from Columbia University, where she was also a Research Fellow at the Earth Institute, and an Executive MBA from The Wharton School. She is also a Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Rise Up Academy alumna, a Standout35 on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist for 2019, on the list of 50 Inspiring Fintech Females by NYC Fintech Women for 2019, a published author, conference speaker, content curator, and advisor for Holt Fintech Accelerator. Her volunteer efforts focus on STEM initiatives and mentoring for not-for-profits such as FIRST Robotics, NFTE, Year Up, Girls in Tech, and Built by Girls.