ESG Oversight Continuous Learning Cohort

Sandra Beach Lin Director American Electric Power Co Inc, Trinseo SA, Avient Corp, Interface Biologics Inc, Ripple Therapeutics Sandra Beach Lin is a board member of American Electric Power, a Fortune 200 electric utility; Avient Corp. (PolyOne Corp Prior to 07/2020); and Trinseo SA. Beach Lin also serves on the board of Interface Biologics, a privately held company developing transformative biomedical polymer technology for medical devices. She also serves on the board of privately held Ripple Therapeutics, a precision-engineered drug delivery developer. Beach Lin is the retired president, CEO, and board member of Calisolar Inc. (now Silicor Materials). She also served as corporate executive vice president at Celanese, as group vice president of Specialty Materials & Converting with Avery Dennison, and as president of Alcoa Closure Systems International. She also held roles with Honeywell and Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems. She began her career in sales and marketing leadership roles at Smith & Nephew, Crest Ultrasonics, and American Cyanamid. Beach Lin is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow, and she was named to the NACD Directorship 100 in 2013. She received the Dallas Business Journal’s Outstanding Directors Award in 2014.

Rebecca Henderson Professor Harvard University; Director, IDEXX Laboratories Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 university professors at Harvard. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy. Henderson sits on the boards of IDEXX Laboratories and of Ceres. Her most recent publication is Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (2020) which has just been short-listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award.

Blair Jones Managing Director Semler Brossy Blair Jones is a managing director with Semler Brossy. Jones has 30 years of experience in executive compensation consulting, primarily in advising public company boards but also in advising private and pre-IPO companies. She began her career at Bain & Company. Prior to joining Semler Brossy, Jones was practice leader in Leadership Performance and Rewards at Sibson Consulting. Jones regularly speaks at leading boards of directors and executive forums and is a prominent author in the executive compensation space. Her articles have been featured in many media outlets including NACD Directorship, Directors & Boards, Harvard Business Review, Workspan, Corporate Board Member, and Bloomberg. Jones was a many-year member of the Executive Rewards Advisory Council for WorldatWork and cofounded WorldatWork’s Women in Executive Compensation and Regional Executive Compensation Roundtables. Jones participates in broader governance dialogue at the steering committee of the US 30% Club and Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Roundtables.

Larry Taylor President and CEO NACD Pacific Southwest Chapter; Chair, The Creighton Group Inc Larry Taylor is the president and executive board member of the NACD Pacific Southwest Chapter and advisory board chair of the Creighton Group Inc. Additionally, he is a trustee of Claremont Graduate University (including the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management). He was the chief financial officer and board member of a small-cap public consumer-products firm and the CEO of an international management-consulting firm and held roles with EY, Deloitte & Touche, and General Motors. He was an adjunct professor of management at California State University and the Asian Institute of Technology. He is the author of three books and has published numerous articles on corporate governance in various periodicals, including NACD Directorship magazine.

Susan Gray Global Head of Corporate & Infrastructure Ratings S&P Global Ratings; Director, Lower East Side Tenement Museum Susan Gray is global head of Sustainable Finance Business and Innovation at S&P Global Ratings. Gray has held a number of leadership positions at S&P Global, including global head of the Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings practice, where she also led the analytical development of S&P Global Ratings’ ESG and Sustainable Finance Products. Gray’s diverse experience includes 20 years of investment banking focused on development of major infrastructure transactions at Macquarie Capital and four years as a senior policy advisor to the Australian Government. Gray has built businesses for Macquarie in Australia, Asia, and North America, most recently as head of Infrastructure Client Coverage for the Americas. She has lived in New York for the last 14 years. Gray has been an active nonprofit board director for almost 20 years and has been an NACD Board Leadership Fellow since 2012.

Karthik Krishnan CEO Britannica Group; NACD Certified Director Karthik Krishnan is the global CEO of Britannica Group (Britannica, Merriam-Webster, Britannica Knowledge Systems, and Melingo) and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Prior to Britannica, Krishnan spent over a decade at RELX. In his last role at RELX, as senior vice president and general manager for the Global Clinical Reference business, he launched products that won coveted industry recognition. Krishnan was recognized by former president Clinton for his leadership in launching the Urban Enterprise Initiative. An NACD certified board director, Krishnan serves on the boards of Britannica, Melingo, and Urban Upbound. He has been invited to the World Economic Forum Expert Network and is recognized as an expert on education, health care, and information media. He is also a Top 100 global influencer in education technology. He is an advisor to UNICEF and the Global Business Coalition for Education on Youth Skills and Education.

Tanuja Dehne President/CEO The Geraldine R Dodge Foundation; Director, Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc Tanuja Dehne is the president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and leads the Dodge Foundation’s Imagine a New Way initiative. While at NRG for 12 years, Dehne served in various roles including executive vice president, chief administrative officer, and chief of staff. Earlier, Dehne practiced corporate law as a member of Saul Ewing's business department. Dehne is a director of Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. (chair, nominating and corporate governance committee) and Climate Real Impact Solutions II Acquisition Corp.; a trustee of Lafayette College, New York Public Radio (vice chair), and the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund; and cochair of the advisory board of Drexel University’s Gupta Governance Institute. She is an NACD Board Advisory Services faculty member and an NACD Board Leadership Fellow. She has been named to the NACD Directorship 100 (2018) and was identified as a Director to Watch by Directors & Boards (2017).

Brian Tomlinson Director of Research CEO Investor Forum Brian Tomlinson serves as director of research at CECP’s CEO Investor Forum. He develops executive-ready research to enable issuers to reorient their disclosures toward the long term. His publications provide principles, frameworks, and management approaches for the practice of long-term disclosure and the integration of ESG issues. Tomlinson’s work on capital markets has been published by the Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, MIT Sloan Management Review, the World Economic Forum, IR Magazine, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Tomlinson has a decade of experience as a corporate finance attorney.