Oct
22

Careers in ESG Panel

Tuesday October 22, 2024
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM EDT

Virtual

Event Organizer - The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School

esg-i@wharton.upenn.edu

Join us for a lunchtime panel with Wharton alumni Madeleine Evans (W'09), Michael Lentskevich (W'24), and Wilson Tong (WG'18), who will discuss careers in ESG. MBA students and undergraduates will have the opportunity to hear about paths to careers across Environmental, Social, and Governance sectors, and ask questions during Q&A. This event is co-presented by MBA Career Management, Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity, and the Wharton MBA Impact Communities, and will be moderated by Jennifer Savoie, Senior Associate Director of MBA Career Management.

Madeleine Evans joined Generation Investment Management in 2022 as a member of the Growth Equity and Private Equity strategies. Previously, Madeleine was Head of Responsible Investment and ESG Advisory at Wallbrook following a career in private equity and mission-driven businesses. Madeleine received dual bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research on impact investing received the UN Principles on Responsible Investment-Le Monde prize for responsible investment research and was published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment in 2013.

Michael Lentskevich joined Bank of America's 2-year rotational management analyst program in 2024, and currently serves as a Community Relations Manager for the Greater Washington, DC area. He helps manage the Bank's social commitments to community, like developing an affordable housing complex that works with a local food bank and the American Heart and Diabetes Associations to deliver healthy meals for its residents at no cost. While an undergraduate at Wharton, Michael did an internship at Bank of America with the Global Environmental Group helping to develop the Bank’s methodology for calculating its financed emissions from the steel, transportation, and coal sectors. Additionally, he did comparative analysis on the Bank's incorporation of transition and physical risk, analyzed developing European regulations, helped prepare the Bank’s annual TCFD report, and the comments to the proposed SEC Climate Disclosure regulations. In the long term, he hopes to become an attorney and practice environmental law.

Wilson Tong is a Director at Inverness Graham, a Philadelphia based private investment firm, where he manages the firm’s fundraising and investor relations activities and leads the firm’s sustainability initiatives. Prior to joining Inverness Graham, Wilson was an Operating Partner at Common Sense Growth, a mission-driven incubation and investment company, as well as the Chief of Staff at its national non-for-profit parent Common Sense Media. He previously worked at KKR and Hutchin Hill Capital, focused on capital raising and investor relations for private equity and hedge funds. He began his career at Lazard in private capital advisory. Wilson currently serves on the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian American & Pacific Islander Affairs and has served on the board of The Academy for Teachers and as a Fellow with the Council of Urban Professionals. He is a graduate of The Wharton School (MBA, BS) and College of Arts & Sciences (BA) at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA) at Harvard University.

Jennifer Savoie advises MBA students as a Senior Associate Director in MBA Career Management at the Wharton School. Her focus areas include entrepreneurship, startups, as well as all areas within social impact. 

Virtual

Event Organizer - The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School

esg-i@wharton.upenn.edu