About Us

Kanchan is the Executive Director at Sustainometric. She has over 16 years of experience combining responsible investment research across various ESG strategies, project management, and advisory support to ESG raters and fund managers on ESG integration.

Kanchan has covered multiple sectors and themes such as key commodity supply chains (palm oil, soy, meat), financials, and human rights.

She has also extensive experience in responsible investing policy and strategy development. Leveraging her years of experience in responsible investing research, she founded Sustainometric in 2017. Prior to Sustainometric, she has worked with various companies such as Profundo, Robeco, and Evalueserve in varied roles around responsible investment research and advice. Kanchan holds a Master in Business Management in Finance.

Rajani leads the ESG Research and operations at Sustainometric. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing all the ESG projects, service delivery, and client satisfaction.

She has more than 13 years of experience working in various management roles. She specialises in themes such as animal farming, gender diversity, and green revenues. In her current role, Rajani is also responsible for analysts upskilling, training, and resource planning. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Rajani was managing the sales team a local electronic company and was responsible for achieving sales targets. Earlier, Rajani was managing a team of 25 people and was responsible for productivity and delivery at Hutchison Essar (now Vodafone). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Allahabad University.”

Nitesh leads the Impact Research team at Sustainometric. Overall he has more than 7 years of experience in investment research. As an Head of Impact Research, he manages the team focussing on impact research related projects.

Nitesh has a keen interest in Sustainability and Climate Change. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Nitesh was working as business analyst at EL Dynamics. Earlier, Nitesh was managing a PAN India project for an international client (in a third party set-up) and was responsible for product promotion & development. He holds a Master’s degree in Management with a specialisation in Finance and Marketing.

Rajeev is a Research Lead at Sustainometric heading its diversity practice. His core skills include project management, team management, research process transformations, productivity and quality management. He joined Sustainometric in January 2019. Overall he has 8 years of experience in managing teams with high quality output. Prior to joining Sustainometric, Rajeev was working with Matrix Cellular International and was leading a team for tracking unbilled usage. He also worked for Kotak Mahindra Bank as a Manager leading sales team for retail banking. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science from Magadh University.

Shalini is a Research Lead at Sustainometric and leads its Social indicators team. She has worked on and managed various projects focused on children’s rights, gender diversity, and workforce disclosure. She holds a master’s degree in Economics with a specialization in econometrics from Bananas Hindu University.

Sanchaya is a Research Lead at Sustainometric and heads its key commodities practice. In her role she ensures end-to-end project delivery of commodities research projects. She has managed and delivered projects on palm oil, soy, rubber, and timber and pulp. She holds a master degree in business administration with a specialization in finance and human resource from Abdul Kalam Technical University.

Sarfaraz is Head of ESG Technology and Service Expansion at Sustainometric. He is responsible for the amalgamation of technology in our research processes and keeps a close eye on the technology side of developments in the sustainability research and reporting area. He has spent about 16 years in financial research. His experience varies from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. In 2010 he was bitten by an entrepreneurial bug and promoted a company to serve the XBRL reporting needs of small reporting companies in the US.

Prior to that, he worked with companies ranging from sub-consulting to Investment Banking in a variety of Finance and Banking Services including Escorts Securities, Evalueserve, and HSBC. He has an MBA in Finance and IT from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. When he is not working, he loves to spend time with his family and read books.

She collaborates with various heads for resourse planning and is responsible for recruitment, on-boarding and orientation, organizing people engagement activities, idea generation to influence and motivate employees for work life balance.

Additionally, she prepares management dashboard for resource utilization, project profitability etc. She strongly believe in sustainability as a concept and encourage companies and investors to take the signals seriously.

Prior to joining Sustainometric, she was Program manager for student exchange programs GOTA, organising and managing exchange programs.She holds a Master’s degree in Management with a specialisation in Finance and Marketing.

Kanchan is the Executive Director at Sustainometric. She has over 16 years of experience combining responsible investment research across various ESG strategies, project management, and advisory support to ESG raters and fund managers on ESG integration.

Kanchan has covered multiple sectors and themes such as key commodity supply chains (palm oil, soy, meat), financials, and human rights.

She has also extensive experience in responsible investing policy and strategy development. Leveraging her years of experience in responsible investing research, she founded Sustainometric in 2017. Prior to Sustainometric, she has worked with various companies such as Profundo, Robeco, and Evalueserve in varied roles around responsible investment research and advice. Kanchan holds a Master in Business Management in Finance.

Cristiano is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Volatility & Risk Institute (VRI website) and also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business. He is an expert in financial risk management with over 20 years’ experience at banks, government agencies, service providers, universities and think tanks. Cristiano is a former Managing Director of S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he was the Global Head of Credit Analytics and EMEA Head of Credit Risk Solutions, and also served as an Executive sponsor of the group’s Sustainable Finance (Environmental, Social and Governance) business. Earlier in his career, Cristiano held positions at MSCI-RiskMetrics, where he was the Head of Market, Credit, Counterparty Risk, and OTC Clearing for the EMEA banking sector, and Global Head of Credit Advisory for Buy-side and Sell-side Institutions. His extensive experience also includes strategic roles as Managing Director in Unicredit Group’s Research & Strategy Unit, as well as Managing Director at Capitalia Banking Group, and General Manager at the Italian Association of Banking and Finance (ASSONEBB).

Kevin Bourne has served as a Managing Director and Head of Investment Research at S&P Global Sustainable1, prior to the merger he was the Head of Sustainable Finance with IHS Markit. His previous experience includes being Global Head of Sustainable Investment at LSEG/FTSE Russell where he was responsible for implementing their new ESG & Green revenues data models, systems, and indexes, makes him an ideal candidate for the job. Kevin also brings 25 years of equities trading experience, culminating as the Managing Director & Global Head of Electronic & Portfolio Trading at HSBC. As a founding member of the EMEA FIX committee at Salomon Brothers, he witnessed the significant impact standards can have on financial markets.

Peter van der Werf is Engagement Specialist, covering the Consumer Staples, Healthcare and Chemicals sectors. His areas of expertise include impact investing, labor rights, supply chain management, access to medicine and nutrition and social & environmental issues in the Food & Agri sector. He is an Advisory Committee member of a number of PRI working groups such as Agricultural Supply Chain, Sustainable Palm Oil and Deforestation.
Peter gained over four years of professional experience in business development in frontier markets before joining Robeco in 2011. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University.

Peter Mufut is ACIP’s Co-Founder and Managing Partner. With over 15 years of professional experience, he has successfully led and participated in innovative, developmental, and financially viable investments of over USD 100 million across emerging and frontier market economies. Peter represented ASER Capital’s business from The Netherlands as a Senior Investment Manager, managed the European Investor Relations, and mobilized private capital for private sector companies in Africa and Latin America. Prior to joining ASER Capital,

Peter was a Financial Consultant at Profundo, an economic sustainability consultancy firm in Amsterdam. He also worked for various impact investors in the Netherlands, such as the Dutch Development Bank (FMO), Goodwell Investments, Terraffina Microfinance-ICCO Corporation, and E+Co. Peter holds an MBA in Finance & Investments from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands) and a BA in Finance and Accounting from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands).

Sakis is a co-founder and the CEO of RGS. Sakis has extensive experience in developing ESG strategies for investors and companies, having previously co-founded KKS Advisors, a leading advisory firm helping clients on innovative solutions to more sustainable business models and communities. He has been a senior advisor on ESG integration to organizations around the world, having accrued significant experience in building new ESG datasets and developing measurement frameworks. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Dupont Sustainable Solutions. Sakis holds a PhD in material science and engineering from Imperial College London.

Rodrigo Amandi is co-founder and COO at 3rd-eyes Analytics, a fintech company that provides digital wealth management services. He has over 10 years of experience in asset management, investment products, indices, and sustainable investing. Prior to founding 3rd-eyes, Rodrigo was a co-founder and Managing Partner at Contrast Capital, a sustainability investing consultancy. Earlier, he was Head of Indexes at RobecoSAM (now a part of S&P), responsible for business operations, sales, marketing, product development and management of business partners. Rodrigo holds a PhD in Chemistry from University of Nottingham.

Matthew Kilgarriff retired as a Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Richemont, a leading Swiss public company and among the world’s largest luxury goods groups. During his 25 years at Richemont, he transformed sustainability governance and reporting.
In addition to his Richemont role, Matthew also served as Deputy Chair of United Nations Global Compact Network Switzerland and as an Officer of the Responsible Jewellery Council, a Member of the ISEAL Alliance. He continues to serve as a Network Ambassador for the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
He previously worked in public hospitals in England. Matthew is a Chartered Secretary, Chartered Public Finance Accountant and holds an MBA from Ashridge and an MSt from Cambridge.