“We have walked away from deals that would’ve been big moneymakers because we thought that they could do real damage to the stakeholders and communities they operated in,” said Genie Cesar-Fabian, Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) & Sustainability, Palladium Equity Partners. “We are looking at ESG data not only as a great negative screen, but also as potential avenues of value creation, which is really fantastic.”

Watch the video to hear Cesar-Fabian speak about Palladium’s ESG infrastructure, and its process of standardizing data collection, measurement, and reporting in order to make achievements in ESG. This interview was conducted by Mary Kathleen Flynn, Editor-in-chief, Mergers & Acquisitions, for our PE Innovators in ESG Speak virtual event.

For more, read Mergers & Acquisitions Introduces the 2021 PE Innovators in ESG, and Palladium Named to 2021 PE Innovators in ESG.