More than 50,000 companies, including many non-European entities that do business in the EU, will be profoundly affected by the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and its comprehensive ESG reporting obligations, which are perceived by many as overwhelmingly complex and excessively costly. We propose instead to “flip the CSRD script”. This webinar will address key ingredients needed to turn this new regulation into a powerful catalyst, not only to embed sustainability into a company’s business model, but also to fuel its long-term success.
CFA, RIPC, SASB-FSA Credential holder
Chief ESG Innovation Officer at Novisto Inc.
Marie-Josée is responsible for ESG Innovation at Novisto Inc., a next generation sustainability management platform empowering companies to better manage and create value from their ESG data, reporting, and strategy. Marie-Josee draws on nearly 30 years of experience in capital markets, namely as a sell-side Financial Analyst and Head of research, as Director of Investor Relations for a publicly listed company, and as ESG Advisor to companies and investors.
Marie-Josée is a member of the Enterprise Data Management Council’s ESG Working Group and the Capitals Coalition’s Digitalization of Sustainability Data (DSD)-Lab workshop, and leader of the Quebec–SASB FSA Credential Group. She also participates in the CCLI’s Canadian Climate Governance Experts Initiative.
Marie-Josée holds a B.Com. in finance from McGill University and a certificate in Applied Communications from Université de Montréal. She is a CFA charterholder and holds the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), as well as the CFA Institute’s Certificate in ESG Investing and the Responsible Investment Professional Certification (RIPC) designation from the Canadian Responsible Investment Association. She has also successfully completed the Advanced Responsible Investment Analysis course from the UN Principles for Responsible Investment’s PRI Academy.
Partner, Sustain It Right
Marc Escande is a Partner at Sustain It Right. After starting his career as an internal auditor in a large
chemical company, he held operational and senior leadership roles in Supply Chain Management
and Procurement in the pharmaceuticals, construction, mining, and oil & gas industries. He
spearheaded the design and deployment of an innovative, award-winning global / local procurement
framework fostering local supplier and workforce development. Marc also possesses an in-depth
expertise in managing global compliance and excellence programs across complex organizations
where “one-size-does-not-fit-all”.
The core mission of Sustain It Right is to help companies harness the intrinsic complexity of the
CSRD compliance journey, to eventually become a sustainability leader, at the lowest possible cost.
Built on an innovative 3D model, its “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) platform enables corporations to
globally orchestrate their CSRD journey while accounting for local specificities in each organizational
unit (e.g., materiality, data availability and quality, skills adequacy, etc.). CSRD compliance gaps are
easily revealed throughout the organization, resources required to fill them automatically
consolidated, and 3D analytics set the stage for straightforward assurance as well as a solid
foundation for optimizing sustainability strategies.
Partner, Reinhart Marville Torre
Laurent founded in 1994 Reinhart Marville Torre, a French firm with more than 80 lawyers ranking among the very best independent French firms.
Laurent features among the lawyers cited every year in the specialist rankings relating to
Business Law and Mergers and Acquisitions. His practice is essentially focused on mergers and acquisitions and commercial law.
He basically specializes in the fields of pharmaceutical, ech and start up with an interest
in pharmaceutical and food industries and developed specific expertise in data protection and ESG.
Laurent started his career as a cultural attaché in West Africa. Practicing as a lawyer since
1989, he started in London in the firm Stephenson & Harwood before joining the firm in 1994.