Speakers
Brittany Mancuso Schmidt
Partner
PwC
Mahima Achuthan
ESRM, Reputation Risk and ESG lead
Wells Fargo
Cyril Shmatov
Managing Director, Head of Enterprise Stress Testing
Citi
Cyril Shmatov leads the Methodology and Applications team within the Enterprise Risk Management organization at Citigroup, responsible for internal stress testing exercises at the Enterprise level, as well as review and analysis of stress testing results. Prior to joining Risk Management in 2014, Cyril had held a variety of roles within Citi Global Markets, including those in Citi Principal Strategies, Markets Quantitative Analysis and Credit Derivatives Trading Strategy. His previous experience also includes a Research Analyst position with Millennium Partners.
Cyril holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University in The City of New York, where he is now also an adjunct professor within the Financial Engineering program.
Ashley McKeon
Director, Global Regenerative Agriculture
Cargill
Ashley McKeon is the Director of Regenerative Agriculture at Cargill in the company’s Global Impact group. In this role she leads Cargill’s global strategy to scale regenerative agriculture and deliver on Cargill’s sustainability commitments within our supply chains. Prior to this role, she led Cargill’s sustainability and climate policy and advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, and has nearly fifteen years of U.S. federal government experience in Congress and the Executive Branch leading on agriculture, climate change, and conservation policy issues. During her career, Ashley led efforts to increase investments in soil health and climate change in the 2018 Farm Bill and improve conservation public-private partnership programs. Ashley earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from the University of Portland in Oregon.
Christina Skonberg
Head, Sustainability & Mission
Simple Mills
As the Director of Sustainability & Mission at Simple Mills, Skonberg leads the company’s strategy to advance human and planetary health through intentional product design and ingredient sourcing partnerships. She brings to the product innovation process a keen eye toward ecosystem health and economic resilience in farming communities, connecting consumer insights with farmer insights to design products that benefit all nodes of the supply system. Prior to Simple Mills, Skonberg held multiple roles at General Mills, including leading sustainability for Annie’s, Cascadian Farm, and Muir Glen, and managing company-wide regenerative agriculture impact reporting initiatives. While at SCS Global Services, she coordinated the Starbucks responsible coffee sourcing verification program in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. As Director of Operations at the Good Food Foundation, she led production for the Good Food Awards, a national recognition program for leading-edge food businesses committed to positive social and environmental impact. Skonberg holds degrees in Agricultural Science and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, and a MS in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
Paul McMahon
Managing Director
SLM Partners
Anastasia Volkova
Co-Founder & CEO
Regrow Ag
Anastasia Volkova, PhD, is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and engineer committed to developing technology that empowers the agriculture industry to help solve the global climate crisis. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Regrow Ag, an award-winning SaaS provider that enables organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their agricultural supply chains and build climate change resilience by incentivizing the adoption of regenerative farming practices.
Since Regrow’s launch in early 2021, Dr. Volkova and her team have raised $55M in Series A and B funding, and have nurtured Regrow into a global company trusted by some of the world’s leading CPGs, food companies, and ecosystem market developers, including General Mills, Cargill, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and South Pole. Regrow delivers environmental data that makes it possible for organizations to analyze scope 3 sourcing regions, report emissions, and plan sustainability investments, and supports the execution of producer incentive programs that reduce on-field emissions. It pioneered the development of digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) software for agriculture, bringing transparency and credibility to agriculture-based carbon reductions and removals. Regrow’s best-in-class MRV was honored as a Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Idea.
A 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and Forbes Technology Council member, Dr. Volkova is a respected thought leader and innovator in regenerative agriculture and sustainable food sourcing. She has been recognized as one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators, MIT’s “35 Under 35” Innovators (2020), and BBC’s “Top 100 Women” (2020).
Varun Mehta
Executive Director, Head of ESG Data and Technology Product Management
Morgan Stanley
Jeffrey Weaver
Executive Vice President & Chief Qualitative Officer, Emerging Risk, Climate Risk Management
Key Bank