SEC Climate Rule Webcast Part 2: The Impact on Companies’ Enterprise Strategy and Climate Agenda

Maura is an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office. She has nearly 15 years of experience providing financial statement audit, audit of internal control, performance improvement advisory, and related assurance services to clients. In 2010, Maura supported the creation of KPMG’s Sustainability Services practice in the U.S. In that role, she developed the KPMG U.S. approach to sustainability assurance and has led the Firm’s largest ESG engagements, which include assurance of use of proceeds of green bonds, social impact of private equity funds, standalone greenhouse gas emissions reports, and full corporate responsibility reports. She currently leads the Firm’s national efforts around ESG measurement, reporting and assurance. Maura serves as KPMG’s liaison to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). She contributes to KPMG’s views with respect to SASB and the AICPA Sustainability Task Force and supports KPMG International member firms with ESG assurance of U.S. components. In addition, Maura is a leader in KPMG’s venture-capital backed company audit practice, working with life sciences and biotech portfolio companies of venture capital firms preparing for their initial public offerings. Through this role, she engages with VC partners, analysts and CEOs that are thinking about impact at the portfolio company level. Maura champions inclusion and diversity with a focus on retaining and elevating women in business. She actively mentors working mothers through KPMG’s Network of Women and regularly speaks at internal events about her experiences. In addition, she is a partner champion of Breaking 7%, a network of women in venture capital with the goal of elevating more women to the partner level at VC firms. As a licensed CPA, Maura is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). She was named a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2017 and an MSCPA Woman to Watch Emerging Leader in 2018. She holds a Master's degree in Accounting and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.

Mark is a New York-based Principal in our US Strategy practice. Mark has over 15 years of M&A-focused strategy consulting experience and has delivered growth strategy, M&A strategy development, both commercial and operational due diligence advice, and post-close value delivery to a wide array of corporate and private equity clients. His segment specialties include B2B media, information businesses and business service providers. He focuses on supporting client development and execution of value-creating M&A strategies, including diligence, integration and pricing. Mark has his MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University.

Katherine has 17 years of environmental management consulting experience centered around climate change & sustainability as well as in the industrial air quality regulatory compliance space. She advises organizations on developing and implementing climate change strategies, managing compliance with US EPA greenhouse gas (GHG) regulatory requirements, and developing corporate and product carbon footprints. She is a member of the US Climate Change & Sustainability team which provides consulting services for carbon management and development of sustainability/corporate social responsibility strategies. Her expertise is climate change, having consulted in the US since 2001 exclusively in the carbon services field and also having led a carbon practice at an environmental consulting firm. Katherine has provided climate change and sustainability consulting services to a variety of industrial sector clients including clients in the power/utilities, upstream and downstream oil and gas, consumer products, pulp and paper, and wood products, landfill gas to energy, cement/lime, rubber tire manufacturing, and chemical products sectors. She has Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina.