Todd Arthur Bridges, Ph.D.

ESG Book is a global leader in technology and data. The company offers a range of product solutions that are used by the world’s leading investors and companies. The product portfolio includes data, ratings, benchmarking analytics, and reporting platform. The products cover the full spectrum of sustainability including ESG, climate, net-zero transition, regulatory, and impact. The company is backed by Energy Impact Partners, Meridiam, Accenture,  and Allianz X. ESG Book is headquartered in London.

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CEO and Board of Directors to develop long-term strategic vision, establish business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and build global product roadmap to help clients meet climate, sustainability, and reporting challenges.    

• Product Development - built innovative products (data, analytics, technology platform) that solve for client requirements for sustainability performance, GHG data, climate transition, and reporting.

• Team Leadership - built and led high-performing global research and product management team across four verticals (sustainability, climate science, artificial intelligence, regulations & standards), and collaborated with engineering, sales, and marketing on GTM product release.  

• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements with global clients on data, analytics, decarbonization, climate transition, climate scenarios, and reporting solutions.  

• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).

State Street Global Advisors serves the world’s governments, institutions, and financial advisors. With a rigorous, risk-aware approach built on research, analysis and market-tested experience, they build from a breadth of index and active strategies to create cost-effective solutions. As pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, they are always inventing new ways to invest. As a result, SSGA has become the world’s fourth-largest asset manager with US $4.72 trillion AUM. SSGA is headquartered in Boston. 

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CIOs to develop long-term strategic vision, establish business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and build global product roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainability challenges.  

• Product Development - built innovative products (investment strategies, client solutions, reporting tools) that solve for client requirements for sustainable investing and climate decarbonization, and collaborated with engineering, sales, and marketing on GTM product release. 

• Team Leadership - built and managed global research team and collaborated with strategists, product, and engineering on the integration of sustainability across asset class — including beta, smart beta, active quant, fixed income, active fundamental, and asset stewardship engagements.

• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements with investors on climate data, climate risk, ESG investment solutions, climate investment solutions, and reporting & regulations.

• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).

Ethic is the technology platform for sustainable and impact investing. The company empowers wealth advisors and institutional investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals. The Ethic offering is available to advisors and institutions at Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Morgan Stanley. The company is backed by investors including State Street Global Advisors, Jordan Park, UBS, Fidelity, and Oak HC/FT. Ethic is headquartered in New York City.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CEO to develop long-term strategic vision, establish business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and build product roadmap to help clients meet climate and sustainability challenges.

• Product Development - built innovative product that integrates proprietary investment model and best practice from modern portfolio theory - tracking error, risk premia, and sustainability. 

• Research Leadership - led due diligence on data, climate decarbonization, reporting solutions, values-alignment, and negotiated data licensing contracts - MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP, S&P, SASB. 

• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements on ESG data, climate data, sustainable investing, climate transition, technology solutions, and climate reporting & regulations.

Cornell University is a privately endowed research university, and as the federal land-grant institution in New York State, it has a responsibility--unique within the Ivy League--to make contributions in all fields of knowledge in a manner that prioritizes public engagement to help improve the quality of life in our state, the nation, and the world. 

Trusted Responsibilities: 
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with Faculty Director and Board of Directors to develop organizational strategy, secured grant funding for programs, and managed research institute.

• Research Leadership - led programs and research to empirically model how to build sustainable economic growth and long term value creation - via entrepreneurs, technology, and finance.

• Education & Advocacy - produced data-driven reports and presented findings on the impact of capital markets and government in building innovation hubs and technology ecosystems.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense." NSF is vital because they support basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Program Management - secured grant funding and built program to model the role of technology, finance, and entrepreneurship in building sustainable capital markets.

• Research Leadership - developed research and data analysis to answer key strategic questions focused on entrepreneurs, economics, venture capital, and sustainable markets.

• Education & Advocacy - presented research findings to scientists and industry leaders in the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, and Russia.

The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The currently 83 Max Planck Institutes and facilities conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

Trusted Responsibilities:
• Program Management - secured grant funding and built program for research on corporate governance, networks, and financial regulation across global capital and financial markets.

• Research Leadership - produced data-driven research reports on the changing structure of financial markets and the new governance structures in the alternative investment industry--hedge funds and private equity. 

• Corporate Engagement - built strategic relationships with hedge fund managers, private equity, CIOs, and entrepreneurs - conducted 100+ qualitative interviews and surveys.

• Education & Advocacy - presented research findings to scientists and industry leaders in the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Advancement of Science.

Doctorate with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods

Doctoral fellow with specialization in Law, Economics, and Socio-Legal Governance 

Doctoral fellow with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods 

Masters with specialization in Organizational Behavior, Social Science, Research Methods