IMA Local Chapter Session on ESG Details

Topic: Nonfinancial Corporate Reporting and Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Disclosures

Session Summary: Participants will learn about the nonfinancial corporate reporting landscape and be stepped through the timeline from Corporate Social Responsibility of the 1950s to the ESG Disclosures of today.  They will also be briefed on the various organizations, frameworks, and standards that exist in the space. 

Speaker Biography:

Linette A. Rayeski, CMA is an Assistant Technical Professor of Accounting at King’s College and doctoral candidate in the Doctorate of Business Administration program with a concentration in Accounting at the University of Scranton.  She has amassed over 20 years of professional experience in global Fortune 500 companies including Ingersoll-Rand Company, Revlon Inc., and ANN Inc. and held positions with progressively expanded areas of responsibility to the level of Vice President.  Her experience spanned corporate finance, strategy, operations, internal audit, business intelligence, and mergers and acquisitions.  Linette’s time crafting investor messaging, key performance indicators, and supply chain accountability and reporting in practice led to her current work and research in nonfinancial corporate reporting and Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Disclosures.  Based on her corporate experience and prior to her shift into academia, she has also held finance leadership roles at start-up environments in well-known private equity portfolios and venture accelerator programs, and currently provides broad advisory offerings as a part of a local economic development business incubator.  Linette holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Accounting from King’s College.