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Kelly Gallo

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Kelly helps technology companies achieve their sustainability goals, with a focus on supporting high-growth companies in embedding resilient and inclusive practices that both support business strategy while addressing societal and environmental impacts. Through BSR’s Sustainability Management service offerings, Kelly works with members to prioritize material sustainability issues, develop issue-specific strategies, set ambitious yet realistic goals, and communicate sustainability initiatives to key stakeholders.

Prior to BSR, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients. She has also served as a Board Member for the US National Committee for UN Women, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and Spark, a non-profit that seeks to advance gender equality by engaging the next generation in accessible forms of philanthropy.

Kelly holds a MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Roberta Pinamonti

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With more than 14 years of experience in the field of sustainability, Roberta supports companies in translating social and human rights expectations into management practices. In particular, she focuses on supporting companies in the energy and utilities sectors in navigating regulatory trends as well as investor and other stakeholder expectations when it comes to human rights management. She is passionate about renewable energy and leads BSR's work in renewable energy and human rights.

She has experience with human rights due diligence and impact assessments, code of practice and policy development, sustainability strategy and integration, sustainability reporting, and materiality assessments.

Prior to joining BSR, Roberta spent six years with Enel, a multinational electric utilities company, as a CSR specialist. She managed projects across various countries, particularly in Latin America, focusing primarily on integrating sustainability into business operations and developing the company's human rights approach. 

Roberta holds a MA in Economics and CSR and a BA in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento in Italy. An Italian native speaker, Roberta also speaks English, Spanish, and French fluently.

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Matthew Charlesworth

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Matthew is responsible for creating and overseeing internal processes related to BSR member services.

In addition, he provides support to BSR’s Executive Committee and Operations Committee. Prior to moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Matthew was the office manager of BSR’s New York office. In this position, he was the primary liason between the finance, human resources, and IT teams, and he supported the Healthcare Working Group and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative. During his time in New York, Matthew also oversaw two office moves.

Before joining BSR, Matthew lived and worked in France as a translator and English teacher. He moved from Europe to San Diego in 2005 and worked there as an office manager.

Matthew holds an M.A. in French and Translation Studies from the University of Manchester.

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Lin Wang

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Lin leads BSR’s work in China, with a focus on women workers’ empowerment and supply chain sustainability issues.

She has extensive external and government relations connections and experience and is one of the leading thinkers on supply chain, economic development, and labor issues in China.

Lin started her sustainable business career at the ILO in Geneva, where she designed a project on human resources management and labor relations in China’s special economic zones. She returned to China in 2001 to serve as the project’s chief technical advisor. In 2005, IKEA recruited Lin as a sustainability manager, where she was responsible for the overall IKEA China supply chain sustainability scope, including social and environmental compliance and external relations, as well as for contributing to global sustainability strategy and action plans. 

Lin holds an M.P.S. in International Development Policy from Cornell University and a B.A. in Political Economics and Education from Shanghai Teacher’s College.

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Cherry Lin

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With more than 10 years' experience in sustainability, Cherry manages RISE, a global factory-based initiative focused on gender equality and well-being of women workers in supply chain factories, in China and other Asian countries. She handles overall implementation and works with the RISE global team to expand presence and amplify program impact around the world. She also leads the quality assurance workstream in RISE.

Cherry has worked with more than 40 international companies across industries. Prior to joining BSR, Cherry worked at the Guangdong Overseas Construction Co. Group, where she coordinated activities focused on improving the well-being of migrant workers based abroad between Chinese headquarters and overseas offices.

Cherry holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Chongqing University and a Master’s of Business Administration from Sun Yat-Sen University. Cherry speaks Chinese, English, and Cantonese.

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Beth Richmond

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Beth helps companies create a more just and sustainable world through cutting-edge sustainability management. Beth leads BSR’s strategy practice, helping companies understand performance, identify priorities, and design effective sustainability solutions that increase resilience and deliver value for business and society.

Beth is also an active member of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab and regularly advises companies on climate change. Beth has led engagements in all of BSR’s major industry groups, touching all of BSR’s focus areas.

Prior to joining BSR, Beth served as the director of sustainability for a packaging manufacturer, where she was responsible for corporate-wide sustainability strategy and implementation. Beth also worked as a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she developed benefit-cost analyses of proposed federal regulation and supported industry partnership development.

Beth holds a MEM from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Economics from Colby College.

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Alison Taylor

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Alison is Executive Director at Ethical Systems, a research collaboration on ethical culture, housed in New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business. Previously, Alison led BSR’s sustainability management practice and oversaw the supply chain practice and the Sustainable Futures Lab. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.

Alison has also worked as a senior managing director at Control Risks, where she helped companies operate with integrity, particularly in high-risk environments, and for Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture. She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business.

Alison holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University.

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Ryan Zhang

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Ryan works on RISE programming in China, specifically the successful delivery and coordination of capacity-strengthening efforts in workplaces. These include increased agency, confidence, and communication as well as increased access to and control over financial products, services, and resources, enhancement of the capabilities of unions and industry organizations to serve as gender champions, and implementation of policies at the workplace level, but also regional and national levels, that promote gender equality. 

Prior to joining BSR, Ryan worked at GN ReSound, where he focused on public relations, project management, training, and marketing, especially for Hearing the Future, a national hearing care prevention and treatment program and public-private partnership between the Chinese Ministry of Health, China Disabled Persons Federation, and GN ReSound. 

Ryan holds a Master’s in Strategy and Marketing from the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion et Commerce International (ESGCI) and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Tongji University. 

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Katrina Zhou

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Katrina is an Associate at RISE, where she provides training and manages projects aimed at supporting women workers in garment factories, as well as other women’s empowerment projects.

Prior to joining BSR, Katrina worked as a product manager and as a sales manager in multiple audiometric equipment and hearing aid companies, including Siemens and Otometrics. In these roles, she managed customer relationships, formulated sales plans, designed product training sessions, and provided these sessions to customers.

Katrina holds a bachelor’s degree in Interpretation between English and Mandarin from Shanghai Jiaotong University as well as an associate’s degree focusing on audiology technology from Fudan University. She is currently pursuing an MBA from Canberra University. Katrina speaks English and Mandarin.

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Sunhee Choi

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Sunhee develops the look and feel of the BSR Conference and major BSR events and creates designs for the BSR Report and other marquee reports, email marketing campaigns, infographics, website features, and more.

She is passionate about positive change and effective communications, and enjoys the process of improving a company's performance with visual storytelling and creative methods.

She brings a wealth of experience from working for a boutique design studio and as a design director for a marketing firm, helping financial professionals and nonprofits meet their strategic goals through email and direct mail marketing. More recently, she was a freelance designer, serving clients including small business owners, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to design brand identity and marketing materials. Sunhee is fluent in Korean.

Sunhee holds a B.A in English Language and Literature from Hannam University of South Korea and an MFA in Graphic Design from Boston University.