SPF WORLD 2022 - Speaker Bios

David is the CEO of Verdantix and co-founded the firm in 2008. Based on his 20 years of experience in technology strategy and research roles he provides guidance on digital strategies to C-level executives at technology providers, partners at private equity firms and function heads at large corporations. His current focus is on helping clients understand their market opportunity tied to ESG investment trends and their impact on corporate sustainability strategies. During his 12 years running Verdantix – including 4 leading the New York office – he has helped dozens of clients grow their businesses through fund raising, acquisitions and international growth. David was previously SVP Research at Forrester and Head of Analysis & Forecasting at BT. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and also worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School

Chris Mendez is a Solutions Architect at Sasol, a global chemicals and energy company based in South Africa, where he maximizes the potential of digital solutions to meet the ever-evolving challenges in the EHS&S landscape. Working collaboratively with stakeholders, Chris co-creates sustainable business processes to align with effective technology solutions to support regulatory compliance and corporate EHS&S objectives.

Frédéric Munger is manager at Hydro-Québec of a team in charge of IT systems and performance in Environment, Health and Safety. With a bachelor's degree in geography and a master's degree in environmental science, he began his career at Hydro-Québec in 2001 as a specialist in ISO 14001 certification (implementation, implementation and audit). With the growth of expectations in terms of reporting and monitoring of requirements, he quickly specialized in the implementation of management mechanisms aimed at the deployment of computer applications. Today, his expertise is as much in the field of environment, health and safety as in programming and database management.

Kevin McKee is the Enablon Platform Lead within WSP Golder’s Digital Solutions group and has over 11 years of experience across the full life-cycle of EHS & ESG software implementations. Kevin has been working within the Enablon software platform since 2013, helping clients across several industries and geographies implement the majority of Enablon-offered applications and modules, particularly the Environmental & Sustainability suite. Kevin also serves as WSP Golder’s Global ESG Solutions lead, working with the global Digital Solutions team to maintain and continuously improve its implementation strategy for Enablon’s Metrics, Greenhouse Gas, and ESG offerings.

Elizabeth is currently a Senior Advisor of Operational Risk Applications and Technology at Suncor Energy. In this role she works with stakeholders from across the enterprise to support and enhance the Enablon platform. Enablon is used by 13,000 users at Suncor to support Incident Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Audits and Corrective Actions. The organization is currently implementing the Enablon Inspections module, Management of Change module and the Permit-to-Work module. She has worked for 15 years within Sustainability, Environment, Health and Safety roles in across a variety of industries.

She has a Masters degree in Accounting specializing in Sustainability Reporting and experience in the areas of data management, business process improvement, sustainability & stewardship reporting, and technology implementation projects.

Six years in the EHS/ESG consultancy sector, as a Senior Expert Services Manager, Elaine leads projects on EHS compliance and supports corporate ESG programs. Elaine has extensive experience with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations in the US, China, and Singapore. She obtained her J.D. from George Washington Law School and is licensed to practice law in D.C.

Sarah K. Young is a Senior Staff Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) Engineer with over 19 years of professional ESH experience. For the past five years, Sarah has worked in Lockheed Martin’s corporate Environment, Safety, Health and Sustainability (ESHS) organization where she implements and maintains the enterprise wide ESH Management Information System and other applications to support the corporation’s digital transformation. She is proficient in Enablon’s Air Quality, Chemical, Compliance, and Waste applications. Prior to her role at corporate, Sarah worked at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company as an internal auditor and as an Air Quality subject matter expert. She has a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Haley Mathies joined the Digital EHS&S team at Arcadis earlier this year as a Senior Management Consultant based out of Denver. She grew up in Colorado and graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a Bachelor’s in Business Management as well as from the University of Denver with a Master’s in Environmental Policy: Energy and Sustainability.

For the past 10 years she has been a system administrator for several clients, managing Enablon solutions from both IT and operational perspectives. She is an expert in streamlining business processes, software development, and enterprise implementations. The advancement of technology combined with environmental awareness and good business practices have been key drivers throughout her career.

Vasuki Pydipalli joined the Digital EHS&S team at Arcadis a little over 3 years ago as a Senior Technical Consultant based out of Denver. He was born and brought up in India, currently based out of Denver, Colorado and graduated from the PSG College of Technology with a Bachelor’s in Information Technology as well as from the Northern Illinois University of Dekalb, IL with a Master’s in Management Information Systems.

He started his Enablon journey as a Sustainment analyst at Enablon and then pursued a role in Risk Management consulting at Standard Model Partners implementing several Risk and Enablon suite implementations. He is an expert in providing technical and architectural solutions in implementing a full array of applications from the Enablon suite. A solid technical background with an exposure to managing the information systems are his key assets in helping clients achieve their sustainability goals through Enablon.

For the past 20 years, Stephen Fahey has held global sales leadership positions at both large and small software companies. Most recently, Stephen was the VP of Sales – Global Industries with Iron Mountain, where he led multiple sales teams to a 176% increase in revenue in 2021. Prior to that role, he served as Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing at NuoDB, and held senior executive roles at various companies, including Oracle, Impress Software and BroadVision.

Rob Davis has over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence industries and has held senior leadership positions in product management, engineering, consulting, support, and customer success at Business Objects, SAP, Tableau, and MicroStrategy. Rob is passionate about helping organizations glean value from their data by identifying use cases that help teams and individuals improve their performance. Rob is also very interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence and applications of these technologies in Enterprise Performance Management. Rob holds a Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Outside of work, Rob is a father of four, an avid solo long distance hiker and camper, and plays saxophone with a cover band in Paris known as “The Doodads”.

David leads the Product teams for Engineering & Operations, which cover key products such as Control of Work, Barrier Management, Field Operations and the BowTie Suite. Dave has a background in Oil & Gas and has significant experience in building and deploying software systems as well as operational experience in front line operations in hazardous industries.

Océane Rabillon is a group product manager responsible for ESG & GRC products. Passionate about sustainability and innovation, she loves working at Enablon for three reasons:

1) Creating a more sustainable world
2) Facing new challenges every day
3) Helping Customers get more value from Enablon.

Daphné is the product owner for Risk & Control products. She has an audit, internal control & risk management background. She is passionate about collaborating with customers and various stakeholder to identify and deliver the right product evolutions. She is also eager to promote and expand Enablon's software solutions to contribute shaping a sustainable society.

Karina Zizumbo is a Senior Product Manager at Enablon. She has a product background with a focus on Compliance Management. Today she is responsible for the direction of the Compliance scope of products which includes: Audit, Inspections and Compliance. Karina is passionate about creating a sustainable world and building top quality products.

Sheila manages Enablon’s ESG application and has been working in sustainability data strategy for 12 years. Her background includes implementing greenhouse gas management solutions for clients in a diverse set of industries and extends to managing inventories, voluntary reporting, strategizing goals and reduction opportunities, and carbon offset origination. She’s excited to utilize innovative technologies that unlock business process optimization that help customers make meaningful ESG impacts.

Myriam has been an avid proponent of the User-Centered Design framework for 10 years. She deploys methodologies to optimize products and services for high user-adoption, and engagement.

At Enablon, she partners with Product Team members on problem discovery to deliver the right product at the right time, hence ensuring end-user satisfaction. She also leads the Customer Centricity initiative to develop even closer exchanges between the Product Team and Customers to collect insights, refine problems and build the roadmap.

Renée is a Senior Product Manager at Enablon, responsible for the direction of the Environmental and Waste applications, and has worked in the environmental space, primarily in the areas of air quality and greenhouse gas emissions, for the last twenty years. Starting as a consultant working on permitting has given her deep domain expertise which she has brought to the digital realm, helping a several companies implement software solutions to help meet their environmental compliance obligations. Renée is passionate about having a positive impact on the world, and loves to help other individuals and companies along this path.

Shweta is leading the portfolio strategy for all the data related services from enablon reporting to building the next generation of analytics and data integrations services.

Jean-Grégoire Manoukian is Content Thought Leader at Wolters Kluwer Enablon. He is responsible for thought leadership, content creation, as well as the management of the Enablon blog and social media activities. He also provides subject matter expertise to the global marketing team. Jean-Grégoire started at Enablon in 2014 as Content Marketing Manager, and has more than 20 years of professional experience, including many years as a product manager for chemical management and product stewardship solutions. He also worked in the telecommunications industry as a product marketing manager.

Didier Tisseyre is a Senior Product Experience Director with over a decade of successful experience leading teams to create unique experiences for end-user at Enablon.

Didier specializes in product adoption and regularly mentors new technics and tools for product managers and designers to develop, with data, empathy for the end-user. Teams implementing Didier's vision and mentorship find more success in delivering products people want.

A firm believer in the power of positive thinking in the workplace, Didier is proud to contribute to embedding the end-user in the product delivery cycle company-wide.

Didier has greatly benefited from implementing empathy techniques in his life, including dancing semi-professionally and raising his two kids.

Geert is responsible for the Value Sales team and apply his expertise across 20 industries with special experience in Mining, Aviation and O&G. he facilitates the implementation of complex risk management solutions and supports customers in adding Barrier based risk management to their work processes and in the organization. he manages many key accounts across the different industries from ‘prospect’ to ‘customer’ and ‘retention’.

As an advisor he is also involved in the development of the software solutions e.g. BowTieXP and BowTieXP Enterprise. In particular by translating market needs and providing insights relevant to future development objectives.

Laurie Moore is the Vice President of Business Operations & Customer Success for Wolters Kluwer Enablon and a member of the business’ Executive Leadership Team.

Laurie has more than 25 years of experience in leadership, including project management, systems design, consulting, change management, and process improvement. Her expertise is in optimizing operational efficiencies and organizational capabilities while increasing revenue, profit, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

Laurie is passionate about mentoring her team members and further developing their skills, as well as providing an exceptional customer experience. She is currently based in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Leo Bernardes began his career working offshore and then worked his way up the HSE ranks, eventually moving into a Corporate position for a Major Drilling Contractor. Leo Bernardes has been part of Control of Work since 2011 and the Subject Matter of Transitioning from paper to Digital Solution in a global project. He holds Graduate Certificate in Safety Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering.