Helle Bank Jorgensen – CEO and Founder, Competent Boards Inc.

Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO and founder of Competent Boards, offering online ESG, Climate and Biodiversity programs that draw on the experience of more than 150 renowned board members, business leaders, and investors. Hundreds of directors and senior executives have enrolled in these programs to transform their careers and their companies. Helle is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She works with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors. Helle is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards. Helle serves on:

• Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence’s Sustainability & ESG Insights Council
• World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals
• His Royal Highness Prince of Wales A4S (Accounting for Sustainability) Global Expert Panel
• The Non-financial Digitization Working Group of the Impact Management Project (IMP)
• Canadian Climate Governance Experts –- a Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative
• Advisory Committee Chair, ESG Exchange, Good Governance Academy

Nura Taef – Partner, Leader ESG Reporting Advisory, Deloitte

Nura is the leader of the ESG Reporting Advisory practice and advises clients on assessing, quantifying, and communicating climate and broader sustainability risks and metrics in corporate reporting. She is a member of Deloitte’s Global Expert Advisory Panel on Sustainability Reporting, a forum for knowledge sharing and collaboration among jurisdictions globally to evolve financial and non-financial disclosure and stewardship to meet stakeholder needs now and in the future.

Nura has worked with clients throughout North America and the U.K. to help them understand the linkage between their climate and sustainability business strategies and disclosure, and guide them through the associated financial statement complexities. She has over 12 years of combined experience in financial statement audit and complex and technical accounting, supporting both private and public companies of all sizes and across industries and sectors.

Christian Jeffrey – Director, ESG Reporting Advisory, Deloitte

Christian is a Director in Deloitte's BC Audit & Assurance practice who leads the ESG Reporting Advisory group in Western Canada. Christian helps client’s raise their game on sustainability reporting and readiness for upcoming ESG reporting regulatory changes as well as providing assurance over ESG metrics.

Prior to this role, Christian led some of the Deloitte UK's largest mining audits and spent over a year working in the Group Finance team at a FTSE 100 global company.

Jessica Carello – Assistant Manager, ESG Reporting Advisory

Jessica leads and supports the delivery of projects for clients with a focus on sustainability-related assurance procedures, ESG risk and opportunity analysis, analysis of ESG impacts to financial reporting, and disclosures in accordance with approved ESG reporting standards and frameworks.

Previously, Jessica gained experience working for Deloitte in an external audit capacity playing a significant role in the execution of integrated audits for global companies. Through this role, she has developed a strong understanding of the process required to support effective financial reporting, document financial processes, perform specified procedures, and test the design implementation and effectiveness of internal controls.