Sammy Lakshmanan has over 20 years of helping companies shape their ESG and sustainability strategies leveraging technology and data to operationalize sustainability. He has developed digital ESG roadmaps and business cases; designed and deployed technology platforms to collect, aggregate and analyze data; implemented governance and controls to ensure ESG data is of high quality and verifiable; and harnessed real-time analytics to embed ESG into day-to-day decision making Sammy is also co-chair of the Open Footprint Forum—an industry group developing a global data standard for GHG and sustainability data.