Serial entrepreneur and CSR, Sustainability, and Environmental and Social Risk Expert passionate about driving companies to reach their full potential.
Anne is the Managing Director of The Umbrella Institute, a UAE based ESG & Sustainability advisory.
The Umbrella Institute is specialized in business behaviour and triple bottom line transformation, ESG & Sustainability reporting, and program development.
Anne’s passion lies in empowering leaders taking action their organizational triple bottom line impact - And advocating the effects of the change to other business leaders. According to Anne, ESG represents a pivot in the way corporate communication is handled: ESG is disclosing intentions with ethical and moral implications, and as such introducing greater transparency and opening the company up to a new set of investors and stakeholders with a responsibility focused portfolio.
She is a serial entrepreneur who has worked in the area of sustainability and corporate responsibility for more than a decade. She has been involved in business transformation at the operational level, as the GM in a Middle Eastern construction company and owner of a green storage facility in Denmark.
Her work is based on the firm knowledge that companies who share openly and act responsibly, drives greater engagement and ultimately have a more loyal customer base and sustainable income for the long-term.
The 17 SDGS (Sustainable Development Goals) are amazing business realization tools, that benefits any company of any industry and size.
The session is focusing on making sustainable transformation a business opportunity, rather than focusing on it as a business risk.
Successful entrepreneur, business manager, coach and mentor with a long track record of leading and developing companies through organic growth, mergers, acquisition and sales.
Chartered Accountant and Senior Partner with 30+ years of experience in Compliance, Finance, Taxation and Audit
C-Suite Executive with 20+ years of leadership experience across strategy, sales, account management, business development and product management roles.
Colombian Gamification Designer, Creator of the BEM framework, 2 times GamiCon Throwdown Award winner and Gamification Researcher
Influential Speaker with 22+ years of experience in the field of accounting and finance, and is the head of ACCA Middle east.