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Our people are our biggest asset. Meet the team behind RIFT, our holistic impact assessment solution.

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Sakis has extensive experience in ESG investing and research, having previously co-founded KKS Advisors, a leading advisory firm instructing 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 holds a PhD in material science and engineering from Imperial College London.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sandor has spent the past 20 years scaling high-growth, global technology companies, building products loved by millions of people every day. Before RGS, Sandor was the CTO of Profitero, the e-commerce analytics leader, and CTO at LogMeIn, expanding the company from 30 people to 3,500, and reaching $1B+ in revenues. Earlier in his career, he was a research scholar at Vanderbilt University, where he worked on one of the first adaptive learning systems, later adopted by MIT and Harvard. He is an active angel investor, startup mentor, and a venture partner at F-Prime Capital, where he focuses on enterprise technology and cybersecurity.

Chief Technology Officer

In addition, Peter is founder and managing partner of Richmond Global LLC (RG) and its various partnerships, including Richmond Global Ventures, a VC fund investing in disruptive technologies globally. He is co-founder of Endeavor Global, an NGO launched in 1997 to identify and cultivate the world&rsquo;s highest impacting entrepreneurs and established in 47 countries. He has invested and lived on five continents over 25 years. His exits include 5 unicorns where he led or participated in their seed, early, and/or growth stages. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, his JD from Yale Law School, and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He lectured on entrepreneurship for 13 years in Princeton&rsquo;s engineering department and underwrote the establishment of Princeton&rsquo;s E-lab for student entrepreneurship.

Co-founder and Director

Prior to joining the team, Julia worked with various financial instruments at Nordea Markets, and was a contributor at Altiorem, an online library dedicated to influencing the investment industry toward sustainable capital allocation. Her fields of research included ESG impact on credit and equity portfolio performance, as well as low-carbon investing. She holds a BSc in management and an MSc in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. She has complemented her academic qualifications with further studies in social and environmental sustainability, corporate reporting for climate change, and socially responsible investing at the University of New South Wales.

ESG Associate

In his practice as a data scientist, Niklas has a deep interest in sustainability and statistics. Prior to RGS, he gained experience working at KKS Advisors, helping to develop company ESG ratings; at the European Investment Bank, observing banking sector risk; and at the University of Bocconi, analyzing causes of discrimination. He holds an MSc in economics from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and a BSc in economics from Bonn University.

Head of ESG

Kanchan has over 15 years&rsquo; experience in responsible investment research across various strategies such as exclusions, best-in-class, screenings, impact investing and engagement. In 2017, she founded Sustainometric to offer research and advice to investors, ESG rating agencies and index providers. In the early phase of her career, she instituted and scaled many research operations for some of the most respected index providers. She also consulted and developed ESG methodologies for fund managers and ratings agencies. She holds a master&rsquo;s degree in business administration with a specialization in finance from&nbsp;Amity Business School.

ESG Data Expert

George is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and co-founder of KKS Advisors. He has been recognized by Barron&rsquo;s as one of the most influential leaders in ESG investing. He is a global authority on the integration and measurement of ESG issues in business decisions. His pioneering research on financial materiality has become the standard framework for analysis of ESG data. He earned his doctorate in business administration at Harvard Business School.

Co-founder

Don&aacute;t is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience in the tech industry with a strong focus on data-related products in the past five years. He has worked with and led teams at companies such as Cloudera, Ericsson and IBM. He is also an officer of the Apache Foundation. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and studied with scholarships at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Aquincum Institute of Technology. Don&aacute;t has also been a guest lecturer at BME teaching programming to computer engineering and electrical engineering students.

Lead Engineer

Before joining RGS, Sophocles was a data scientist at Capita, where he worked on numerous analytics projects, providing insights and recommendations to clients. He was then appointed to lead the analytics team of the Capita Procurement Function. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics where he focused on econometric methods and industrial economics, and he received his BSc in economics from Queen Mary University. Prior to his MSc, he completed an internship at Deloitte in financial advisory.

Data Scientist

Before joining RGS, Julia gained experience in green project financing, sovereign bond issuance, and credit risk assessment as a Corporate &amp; Investment Banking Analyst at Citibank, and in social venture capital financing as an Investment Manager at a pioneer CEE social impact fund, Impact Ventures. She holds a BSc in economics from University College London.

Before joining RGS, Roland spent seven years in finance in multiple areas (market risk analysis, controlling, treasury). He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics with a BSc in International Business and an MSc in Finance.&nbsp; At RGS, he combines his financial expertise with technical and quantitative skills.

Data Engineer

Saeed is an avid environmentalist with strong interests in green finance. He holds an MSci in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, specialising in Complexity Science and Environmental Physics. He is invested in applying his skillset towards the intersection of sustainability and commerce.

Quantitative ESG Analyst

Eric Pitt is an experienced capital markets and technology executive with a deep interest in addressing climate change. Eric is a consultant to the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, where he does policy and program work advocating for pro-growth, climate-aligned investment principles. He is an advisor to and investor in several companies and funds focused on climate solutions. Previously, Eric was a Managing Director in the fixed income markets at JP Morgan for 15 years, responsible for much of their US credit trading business. During the first decade of his career, Eric worked in software. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Physics and has an MBA from Columbia University.

Senior Advisor

Cristiano is an expert in financial risk management with over 20 years&rsquo; experience at banks, government agencies, data providers, universities and think tanks. Cristiano is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Volatility &amp; Risk Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches Sustainable Finance and Experiential Learning in the MBA program.
He also serves as a Senior Advisor to companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe on ESG integration into business models and financial risk measurement of private and public asset classes.
Cristiano is a former Managing Director of S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence, where he was the Global Head of Credit Analytics and EMEA Head of Credit Risk Solutions, in charge of a business line focused on the commercialization of a suite of statistical and judgmental credit models for public and private companies. He also served as an Executive sponsor of the group&rsquo;s Sustainable Finance (Environmental, Social and Governance) business, which cuts across four divisions: S&amp;P Ratings, S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence, and S&amp;P Platts.
Cristiano joined S&amp;P Global from MSCI-RiskMetrics where he was the Head of Market, Credit, Counterparty Risk and OTC Clearing Business for the EME Banking sector, and Global Head of Credit Advisory Business for Buy-side and Sell-side institutions. Previously, he was Managing Director in the Research &amp; Strategy Unit of Unicredit Group, Managing Director at Capitalia Banking Group, and General Manager of the Italian Association of Banking and Finance (ASSONEBB). Cristiano also served as a financial economist at the Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi (the Italian equivalent of the US FDIC), where he was the Head of the Research Department.
&nbsp;He is well published in various journals of financial economics, such as Journal of Credit Risk, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking Regulation, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Financial Stability, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research in Banking and Finance.
Cristiano received a BSc in Economics &amp; Business and a MSc in Banking from the University &ldquo;La Sapienza&rdquo; of Rome, and a PhD in Management (with specialization in Finance) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL).

Our people are our biggest asset.
Combining strong academic backgrounds with extensive experience across technology, data science, finance and sustainability, each individual brings a unique set of talents to the team. We all share an entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to create a mission-driven company.