Cliona Duffy
Cliona is the Head of Partnerships, at RSPCA Assured, the RSPCA’s welfare assurance scheme for farmed animals. Cliona leads engagement and collaboration with the retail and foodservice sectors, encouraging and supporting them to adopt higher welfare sourcing. Prior to RSPCA Assured, Cliona started her career in buying, before moving into managing commercial partnerships at a number of large UK charities, most recently leading the Retail Partnerships team at Fairtrade Foundation.
Koen Boone
Koen Boone is coordinator Sustainable Value Chains at Wageningen University and Research and is Director Europe of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC, www.sustainabilityconsortium.org). Koen has 20+ years of experience in developing sustainability assessment systems on all kind of levels (product, company, farm, sector). He worked on the Food Processing guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is a member of several advisory committees including an ecolabel (Foundation Earth) and an impact investment fund. Koen chairs the Dutch working group that is working on an Ecolabel for all food items sold in the Netherlands.
Vivenne Harris
Vivienne is from a livestock farming background in South Wales, graduating from Harper Adams in 2005 with a BSc Hons in Agri-food production with marketing and management and following that she completed an MSc in Meat Science at Bristol University in 2006. She has spent the last 17 years working in both the poultry and red meat sector with roles at PD Hook, 2 Sisters, Randall Parker Foods, ABP and most recently Map of Ag , before joining the Agriculture team at M&S at the end of August.
Ashley Gilman
Bobby Bean
Bobby Bean is a Managing Director at FORVIS. Prior to FORVIS, Bobby spent more than 30 years at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), most recently as the Deputy Director of the Division of Risk Management Supervision and head of the Capital Markets and Accounting Policy Branch. In this role, Bobby led the FDIC’s international and domestic policy development for regulatory capital, capital markets, and climate risk. He served as a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and as a member of the Network for Greening the Financial System. Bobbyestablished and led the FDIC’s international and domestic policy initiatives on climate-related financial risks, served as the chair for the FDIC’s interdivisional working group on climate-related financial risks, and representedthe FDIC at the Financial Stability Oversight Committee (FSOC) climate-related financial risk working group.
Mitch Carpen
Mitch Carpen has over 25 years of experience designing, leading and implementing a broad range of growth, realignment and startup initiatives in financial and governmental organizations.
He is the Climate Risk Executive at KeyBank and currently leading their Climate Risk Framework buildout.
In his previous role at the Green Climate Fund in South Korean he served as the head of the Office of Risk Management, Compliance and Sustainability where he built up a team and the due diligence framework to allow the Fund to significantly scale up its portfolio of climate change transactions in developing countries.
Before joining the Green Climate Fund, he worked with the State of New Jersey as an Executive Director to startup an infrastructure bank that focused on financing resilient energy assets after the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Before this he was an Assistant General Manager at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Singapore where he led the startup of the risk function for their newest regional headquarter. He also held senior positions with Societe Generale’s risk team in New York City, Instinet Corporation and Prudential Financial.
Mitch has a masters degree in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University in New York City, and a masters and bachelors degree in Economics and Information Science from Rutgers University in New Jersey.