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Janine Guillot

Board Member, ReFED

Former CEO, SASB Foundation and Special Advisor, ISSB

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Janine Guillot is an accomplished financial services leader with over 30 years experience in banking, asset management and pension fund management. She has a track record of managing complex organizations in the private, government, and non-profit sectors. She is recognized as a global thought leader on sustainable investing and is an expert on sustainability and climate-related financial disclosure.

Janine is adept at building agreement among people with diverse perspectives - global investors, regulators, companies, and civil society. Her core competencies span cross-functional leadership, planning & implementation, strategy, team building, enterprise risk management and change management. Translating vision into strategy and goals to enable execution, Janine leads across all business units/functions to build high performing teams and create a culture where people and organizations succeed.

CAREER HISTORY

Janine is the former CEO of the SASB Foundation (SASB) and the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) and served as Special Advisor to the Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). She is recognized for driving SASB and VRF to global recognition as the leaders in investor-focused corporate sustainability disclosure. Under her leadership, global investor support for the SASB Standards grew to over $70 trillion in assets, becoming the leading tool for integration of material sustainability factors into investment and stewardship processes. Over 2,500 companies began to use the SASB Standards to disclose sustainability performance to their investors.

To meet market needs for global sustainability standards, Janine became one of the leaders in the global effort to create the ISSB. She led two mergers in two years to consolidate SASB and the VRF into the ISSB and simplify the global sustainability disclosure landscape.

Prior to joining SASB, Janine led a distinguished career in financial services. She served as Chief Operating Investment Officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and as Chief Operating Officer for the European and Global Fixed Income businesses of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock). She held executive management roles at Bank of America, including chief financial officer and chief administrative officer for multiple consumer and commercial banking business units. Janine began her career as a technical accountant and auditor with Ernst & Young.

BOARD SERVICE, HONORS, SPECIAL SKILLS AND EDUCATION

Janine serves on Neuberger Berman’s Stewardship and Sustainable Investing Advisory Council and is a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. She is an experienced director, currently serving on the Boards of the Capitals Coalition, ReFED (a nonprofit catalyzing evidence-based solutions for food waste), San Francisco State University Foundation, and the Gardens of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Energy and Environment Alliance and Blockchain Coinvestors.

She previously served on the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee to the US Financial Stability Oversight Council and on the Boards of Equilibrium Capital and the Marin Agricultural Land Trust.

In recognition for leadership at the intersection of sustainability, accounting and finance, Janine was selected as a 2020 and 2021 NACD Directorship 100 Honoree and named to the 2020 Business Insider's 100 People Transforming Business list. Janine has a B.B.A. in Accounting from Southern Methodist University. She currently resides in San Francisco.