WHEN AND WHERE
DATE: Wednesday, July 10
TIME:
5:30 – 6:00 PM: Check-in & Networking
6:00 – 7:30 PM: Presentation
7:30 – 8:00 PM: Networking & Close of Program
LOCATION: CohnReznick 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019
COST: $10.00
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
In today’s volatile world, headlines about infrastructure failures, pandemics, labor challenges, climate change, and data breaches remind us of the critical need for robust business preparedness, risk management and disaster recovery planning. These disruptions can threaten the ability of companies to deliver services, goods, and profits, reshaping how we view and act on corporate resilience.
Join us for an insightful panel discussion on the intersection of corporate Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) strategies. We’ll explore how leading enterprises are moving beyond siloed approaches to create cohesive, resilient programs, leveraging data and partnerships, to avoid common pitfalls.
MODERATOR
Heather Loebner
Managing Director/Co-Founder
Hallo!Impact
Heather Loebner, Founder and Managing Director, Hallo!Impact is a corporate responsibility / sustainability leader with three decades of experience. During her tenure at Fortune 50 and blue-chip brands, such as ArcelorMittal, HSBC, and PwC, she stood up first-ever functions and global strategies. Recognized for her accomplishments in facilitating transformational change, creating big-picture strategy that delivers on-the-ground results, and creating influential, game-changing collaboratives, Loebner has scaled environmental solutions and social impact, turned-around corporate reputation, and addressed hard-to-abate challenges through a strong stakeholder relationship orientation, systems-driven and collaborative approach.
As VP, Sustainability, CircleIT, Loebner conveyed substantial ESG value, fulfilling the company’s exit strategy. Loebner stood up the Corporate Responsibility function, Americas, ArcelorMittal and developed a metals and mining sustainability strategy which reduced risk for a 310,000-employee enterprise. She delivered global water and emissions reductions, safety improvements, and defined human rights, responsible sourcing, supply chain, materiality and reporting protocols. Loebner’s record of climate solutions includes five consecutive U.S. Energy Star Partner of the Year awards. She conceived multiple public-private partnerships, such as the award-winning Sustain Our Great Lakes, which has endured to deliver more than $350 million of on-the ground conservation results. As an advisor to the energy, transportation, and food and agriculture sectors, and private philanthropy, she has aligned diverse stakeholders and catalyzed adoption of climate practices that reduced emissions and increased natural resource and biodiversity resilience.
Loebner serves on the Corporate Advisory Board, Shiki Wrap; Treasurer, LES Ecology Center; and Chair, Education, Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC) NYC. A frequent speaker on ESG topics, Loebner has her MS, Political Science, University of Illinois and BA, Business, St. Louis University. A life learner, she earned a CSRD certificate in 2024 and a DEI in the Workplace Certificate, University of South Florida in 2021.
PANEL
Marie Clara Buellingen
Head of Sustainable Finance for the Americas
Societe Generale
Marie Clara Buellingen is the Head of Sustainable Finance for the Americas for Societe Generale. She has more than 15 years of cross-sector sustainability experience helping advance the bank’s clients ESG strategies, programs and financing needs. Her work focuses on the linkages of ESG strategy to capital allocation and sustainable value creation in line with investor expectations, regulatory requirements and best practices such as TCFD, SASB, CDP, UNPRI, UNSDGs and GRI.
Prior to joining the bank, Marie Clara advised corporates as well as large institutional investors on the development of sustainable business practices and investment stewardship strategies. Early in her career, Marie Clara worked in the public policy space with diplomatic postings to Washington, D.C., and Tokyo.
She holds a MSc in Global Business and Finance from Georgetown University as well as a Master of Law from the University of Vienna.
Chloe Demrovsky
Executive in Residence
International Business and Economy
New York University SPS Center for Global Affairs,
President
Edgewood Insights
Chloe Demrovsky is an award-winning, purpose-driven global leader advising Fortune 100 companies, startups, consortia and the public sector in risk, resilience, and sustainability. She brings the future forward by understanding the market fundamentals of the present and driving transformation. She is the inaugural Executive in Residence in International Business and Economy at NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs, is the Founder and CEO of Edgewood Insights, an advisory firm at the nexus of risk, resilience and sustainability, and a Senior Advisor with The Sustainability Board. From 2017-2024, she served as the youngest and first female President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International, the leading professional training company helping organizations to prepare for and recover from disasters and that serves 20,000+ certified operational and cyber resilience professionals in 110+ countries and at 95% of Fortune 100 companies. She is a senior Forbes contributor, has appeared on CBS News, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, and Sky News, and has served as a source for The Associated Press, BBC, USA Today, The Financial Times, ABC News, and others. She has presented at 150+ events across five continents and briefed government bodies including the US Congress, the European Commission, the UN and is a member of the FEMA National Advisory Council. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Crain’s New York 2023 Notable Leader in Sustainability, a US-Japan Foundation Scott M. Johnson Fellow, a French-American Foundation 2019-22 Young Leader, a British-American Project Fellow, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) ARISE-US Founding Vice-Chair and Global Board Member 2020-23, and a Board Director for Bard College at Simon’s Rock Board (Vice-Chair), the French-American Foundation and OPmobility (EPA: POM). She speaks four languages, has traveled to 50+ countries and lives in New York with her husband and son.
Hervé Duteil
Chief Sustainability Officer, Americas
BNP Paribas
Hervé Duteil created the first position of Chief Sustainability Officer for BNP Paribas in 2014, in the Americas. In this role, he works with all relevant stakeholders in the definition and implementation of the Bank’s regional ESG strategy.
In 2018, Euromoney selected him as one of the 10 “champions of global impact banking”. On the opening day of Climate Week NYC 2022, he was honored by Insider as one of the 30 “top global leaders working toward climate solutions” in their inaugural Climate Action 30, along with Francia Márquez, Vice President of Colombia, and Ed Markey, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Hervé has spent most of his career with BNP Paribas in New York. He specialized in trading derivatives and managing capital market activities, spanning across commodity, currency, fixed income and electronic markets. More recently, he led BNP Paribas’ efforts to close its first two Social Impact Bonds, including one for the benefit of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Hervé served as a member on the CFTC’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of the Market Risk Advisory Committee, WBCSD’s Sustainable Finance Policy and SIFMA Sustainable Finance task forces. He currently sits on the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance Advisory Board as well as Insider’s One Planet Advisory Council.
Hervé holds a Master in Business Administration with distinction from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Physics from the Sorbonne University of Paris.
Deborah Nitka
Senior Manager, Cyber & Tech Risk
CohnReznick
Deborah Nitka leads privacy services for ’s Cybersecurity, Technology Risk and Privacy practice. For nearly two decades, she has been helping clients understand their data in an ever-evolving marketplace. Deborah advises organizations on how to navigate shifting regulations, consumer demands, and business strategies, while helping her clients build cybersecurity and privacy programs to protect revenue and drive value.
With expertise in the areas of large-scale transformations, program management, operations, data management, IT audit, cybersecurity strategy, and privacy program design and implementation, Deborah focuses on developing strong relationships with her clients across the lifecycle of business, from transaction M&A diligence to optimizing businesses at scale.
Deborah is adept at delivering highly complex programs that have a multitude of stakeholders; translating technical needs into viable business strategy; and presenting and articulating transformation goals, operational results, and strategic results to executive management. She has experience with various frameworks spanning cybersecurity, risk, third party compliance, health and wellness, and privacy.
Prior to joining CohnReznick, Deborah served in various capacities within organizations such as Moody’s, Neustar, MarketShare, and Accessory Exchange. Her clients included several of the current Forbes Top 50 public companies.