Marie-Josee Privyk, CFA, RIPC, IFRS FSA Credential

FinComm provides companies with ESG reporting information and advisory services that meet their specific needs and circumstances so that they can take action with clarity and confidence. With FinComm, companies produce comparable and reliable ESG disclosures that meet investors’ and other stakeholders’ information needs. They reduce their risk of greenwashing and improve their reputation by better aligning their words with their actions.

Profile:
I have built a career in capital markets – from sell-side analyst and head of research to director of investor relations and sustainable development for a publicly listed company, to ESG and sustainability reporting consultant and ESG data management practitioner – which uniquely positions me at the nexus of companies and investors.

Hugessen

Hugessen Consulting helps Boards make the right decisions on executive compensation and its governance, within an environment of heightened complexity and scrutiny. We enable boards to make independent decisions to: Align pay with corporate strategy and business plans; review compensation policies, pay levels, and plan design; evaluate CEO pay and performance and goal-setting; and conduct independent assessments of corporate performance.

Coro Strandberg

Coro Strandberg is a thought leader and advisor on embedding sustainability into the marketplace. She specializes in corporate sustainability, sustainability governance, social finance, banking and insurance and socially responsible investment. She has 25-years experience in this work from her days as director and Chair of Vancity Credit Union, which created the first SRI fund in Canada shortly before Coro joined the Board. She was a founding trustee of Ethical Funds Inc., Canada’s most comprehensive family of socially responsible mutual funds.

Clients hire Coro for advice on sustainable and impact investment strategies and social finance and social insurance business models. Community Foundations of Canada, for example, hired Coro to help them launch their responsible investment education and engagement program for community foundations. She authored much of the original Canadian research on impact investing, socially responsible investment, and sustainability governance which she posts on her website along with her other social finance publications.

Coro was a member of Canada’s National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. Currently she is an advisory panel member to the Office of the Auditor General’s Sustainable Development Commissioner and on the board of BC Lotteries Corporation.

Coro was recognized as the top CSR consultant by Canada’s Clean50 in 2015 for her impact.