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Jen Stark

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Jen is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice.

She is a strategy development and implementation expert at complex health and humanitarian organizations with 20+ years of experience. She launched the Center in 2022 alongside Jarrid Green to illuminate a path for companies to shift from performative to transformational actions with a focus on public policy engagement and influence. 

Prior to joining BSR, she directed investments at the Tara Health Foundation to advance meaningful change among private sector employers on gender and racial equity, including historic progress on paid family and medical leave, reproductive health, and other workplace protections. Before working in philanthropy, she founded the corporate relations program at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to unlock advocacy, grantmaking and employee support to preserve access to reproductive healthcare nationwide. She also managed the disaster fundraising team at the American Red Cross, coordinating large scale efforts to responsibly raise and deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. She is frequently cited in business press on flashpoint topics and is an advisor to Gauge.ai, the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute, and GoFundMe’s Compassion Leadership Network. 

Jen holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Washington, DC with her family, where she also plays cello in a community orchestra.   

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Samone Nigam

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Samone works with BSR member companies in human rights and technology, with a focus on the impact of technologies on marginalized communities.

Prior to joining BSR, Samone conducted research for a variety of agencies including the World Wide Web Foundation, UN Women, and the Office of the NYC Public Advocate. Her research takes a social justice focus informed by her experience in the nonprofit sector working directly with underrepresented populations like the LGBTQI+ community, immigrants and asylum seekers, sex workers, survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and people seeking safe abortion.

Samone holds a master’s degree in human rights from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in community studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Claudio Formisano

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Claudio leads BSR’s portfolio on addressing modern slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor. He develops guidance for companies seeking to prevent and mitigate human trafficking and forced labor risks and advances policies to scale impact through BSR’s collaborative initiatives like Tech Against Trafficking, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and Building Responsibly.

He brings 15 years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs on criminal justice, human rights, and security in multilateral settings. Prior to joining BSR, he worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), establishing and leading the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT). As a senior advisor to the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he oversaw country needs assessments in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

Claudio holds a MA in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and an Executive Certificate from Harvard JFK School of Government in building and leading diverse organizations. He speaks English, French, and Italian.

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Mollie Ring

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Mollie is BSR’s Social Media and Digital Manager and is based out of the San Francisco office. In this role, Mollie leads the development and execution of BSR’s social media and digital strategy and supports the strategic planning of targeted marketing campaigns.

Prior to joining BSR, Mollie led her own strategic communications firm helping nonprofits and social enterprises to more effectively tell their story and scale their impact. Her areas of expertise range from entrepreneurship and social innovation to clean energy and human trafficking.

Mollie holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a BA from Vassar College in Political Science.

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Nomuna Altankhuyag

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As part of the Finance team, Nomuna is responsible for supporting all accounting-related tasks, including Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables. Nomuna focuses on continuous system implementations and process improvements.    

Before joining BSR, Nomuna worked in accounting at a security surveillance company that designed, manufactured, and marketed security, surveillance camera, and video surveillance systems. There, she oversaw general accounting tasks.

Nomuna holds a BA in Accounting from Mongol Institute and an AA with an emphasis in Business Economy from Wilbur Wright College.

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Sarah Cornelles

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Sarah works with BSR member companies across industries on sustainability management by helping them build positive and impactful strategies.

Prior to becoming an associate, Sarah worked at BSR as an intern and as an external consultant. She supported the climate change and the supply chain teams. She also interned at Siemens in Germany and at the Canadian engineering school Ecole de technologies supérieures, where she focused on waste management.

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Université Paul Sabatier and a double master’s degree in sustainability management from University of Sherbrooke, Canada and environmental engineering from Université technologique de Troyes. She also went on an academic exchange program at the Estonian Life Sciences Faculty, where she studied nature conservation, environmental impact assessment, and life cycle analysis.  

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Vera Solveig

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Vera works with the Finance team and is responsible for payroll coordination, focusing on process efficiency and accuracy.

Prior to joining BSR, Vera worked in healthcare and non-profit university settings.

Vera is currently working on a BS degree in Data Science, Business Administration at Arizona State University.

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Anna Quinn

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Anna is BSR’s Campaign Strategy and Editorial Manager and is based out of the Paris office. In this role, Anna leads the development and execution of BSR’s global editorial strategy and supports the strategic planning of targeted marketing campaigns.

Prior to joining BSR, Anna managed the global communications and PR strategy at Efma, a member-based nonprofit for the financial services industry. She has broad experience in B2B communications across sectors, including tourism, agriculture, health, and beauty.

Anna holds a Master's degree in Bilingual Communications, Culture and Media from Paris Diderot University and a BA from the University of Leeds in Music and English Literature. An international-minded sustainable advocate, Anna is fluent in both French and English.

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May Wu

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May applies her strategic consulting and business development experience to BSR's global operations team to support the administrative and operational needs of BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives (CIs) portfolio, as well as global operations more broadly.

Before BSR, May worked as a Director of Business Development and Management Consultant at LBL Strategies, helping with designing, selling, and facilitating various strategic consulting projects and training programs. She also worked as a project consultant, representing Georgetown University in a global consulting project to provide innovative recommendations to improve operating performance while pursuing her MBA degree. Besides that, she also helped entrepreneurs design a business model and prepared a pitch deck for their startup projects. Meanwhile, she was one of the co-founders of a social media application. May speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

May has a MBA from McDonough School of Business, focusing on non-market strategy, and two BS degrees from Binghamton University, majoring in Financial Economics and Actuarial Science.

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Constance Flachaire

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Constance works with BSR member companies across various industries and areas of expertise with a focus on sustainability management and financial services.

Prior to joining BSR, Constance was an associate at Green Soluce, an entrepreneurial sustainability consulting firm based in Paris. In this role, she advised real estate and private equity investment managers on their ESG policies and impact rating tools, and she led a range of events, workshops, and trainings on sustainable investment. In addition to consulting, Constance was also an auditor for the newly launched French Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) label for real estate funds. This role consisted of analyzing responsible investment policy and its implementation at the fund level against the label's specifications.

Constance holds a Master’s in Business Management from EDHEC Business School and a Certificate in Science, Technology, Business and Society Challenges of Sustainability from Copenhagen Business School.