GCBR Expert

Mark W. McDivitt

OrganisationContext Labs BV

GCBR role:

Member, GCBR Expert Network

Job title:

Chief Sustainability Officer & Capital Markets Professional

Organisation:

Context Labs BV

Based in:

France

Geographic focus:

North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Global

Languages: English, Japanese, French

PROFESSIONAL Context Labs, BV - Cambridge, MA Strategic Advisory Board Member 2020 – Present Feb 2025 – Present • Facilitating ‘Impact’ Investor capital introductions in support of Series C capital raise • Making strategic partnership introductions to include new product structuring opportunities with large public and private companies • Mentoring employees sharing expertise in Sustainability and global environmental commodity markets Chief Sustainability Officer, Head of Climate Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 • Launched Sustainability initiative and developed strategy to reflect the company's commitment to ‘walking the talk’ on climate and other ESG issues. • Initiated foundational programs associated with the firm's strategy that included the formation of a cross-company sustainability committee and the conducting of a Materiality Assessment to gather input from global stakeholders on the most relevant material issues for the business. • Measured the carbon footprint and built a portfolio of environmental attributes to include Carbon and RECs to offset the company’s Scope II and partial Scope III footprint. • Led global build out of offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge-MA, and Houston-TX. Chief Operating Officer Sept 2020 - Mar 2024 • Managed the day-to-day operations of a climate tech software company responsible for scaling the business that has grown from 17 to 120 employees over the past forty-eight months. • Spearheaded a Series B1 strategic capital raise on $28M led by BP Energy Partners, Equinor Ventures, KPMG and i(x) NetZero. • Contributed to turning a profit in the second quarter of 2022 post-raise driven principally by securing a five-year enterprise agreement with a large mid-stream energy company to support their energy transition strategy through the quantification of the carbon intensity of liquid natural gas and compressor stations across 700 facilities in the United States. State Street Corporation - Boston, MA 2010 - 2020 Managing Director, Global Head of ESG Oct 2016 - Sept 2020 • Built a cross-division, multi-discipline ESG business to drive new sources of revenue and help to foster a “One State Street” ESG products & services offering to our $34 trillion global custody client base. Deliverables included: o Analytics – Built out an ESG analytics and reporting tool called ESGX® to incorporate into Charles River F2B and TruViewTM risk offering. Standardized reports included ESG, SASB, SDG & TCFD. o Trading – Initiated the launch of an Environmental Attribute trading desk to service global institutional investors in meeting their transition to net zero sustainability objectives related to carbon, water & plastics neutrality. • Selected as an Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow class of 2017 for Intrapreneurship in achieving business growth while contributing to positive social and environmental change within State Street. Managing Director, Head of US Alternatives Jul 2010 - Oct 2016 • Producer and manager of US foreign exchange sales team covering hedge funds and asset owners trading spot and options in G-20 and emerging market currencies. • Member of State Street’s Executive Corporate Responsibility Committee responsible for constructing and executing Environmental Attribute portfolios to include Carbon, Renewable Energy and Plastic Credits to meet State Street’s annual carbon and plastic neutral sustainability objectives. • Asset Management and Advisory Firm active in the global Environmental Attribute (Carbon Credit & Renewable Energy Certificate-REC) trading markets servicing renewable energy infrastructure companies focused on solar and landfill gas facilities to meet state-wide Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) Regulation. AIG Financial Products – Wilton, CT 2003 - 2008 Vice President, Fund Derivative and Carbon Credit Transaction Origination • Responsible for originating and executing AIG’s first transaction in the Global Carbon Credit market involving the issuance of a Letter of Credit to cover the default risk of global corporations purchasing Environmental Attributes to meet Kyoto Protocol commitments on behalf of The World Bank. • Marketed AIG‘s balance sheet capabilities to hedge funds and real money accounts offering leverage and liquidity solutions to include Capital Principal Protected Instruments, FX spot, forward, exotic options, DJ-AIG Commodity Index, precious metals cash and derivatives. Credit Suisse First Boston – New York, NY 2002 - 2003 Director, Hedge Fund Sales • Top-three-producer responsible for marketing FX, FX Prime Brokerage, and capital introduction to hedge fund start-ups. Deutsche Bank 1996 - 2002 Director – Head of FX Sales – Singapore, London, UK and New York, NY • Producer and manager of multi-product and culture sales team covering global hedge funds, The Middle East, and Japanese clients in English, Japanese and French. Morgan Stanley 1989 - 1996 Vice President – Head of Hedge Fund Sale - Tokyo, Japan and Singapore Jan 1991 – Jun 1996 • Responsible for setting up Foreign Exchange sales trading desk to cover the financial arm of the Government of Singapore along with Antipodean clients. Junior Vice President – Interest Rate and Currency Swaps Trader – Tokyo, Japan Jan 1989 – Jan 1991 • Responsible for daily mark-to-market of the Swaps portfolio during APAC hours along with hedging of the FX exposure of the book. Fuji Bank – Tokyo, Japan 1987 - 1988 Interest Rate and Currency Swaps Trader • Responsible for executing swap transactions between English speaking brokers and Japanese speaking colleagues EDUCATION St. Lawrence University – Canton, NY BA Economics, French Minor, Cum Laude ICU – Tokyo, Japan Japanese language study and History of the city of Tokyo and Japan ADVISORY BOARDS & AFFILIATIONS 1983 – 1987 1985 - 1986 • Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program-First Mover Fellow • Self Help Africa - Board Member • SASB Alliance Member • NICSA NOVA - Industry Innovation Award in Technology for ESGX® QUALIFICATIONS Jun 2017 - Present Jun 2016 - Present 2014 – 2020 2019 • Series 7 and Series 63 • Conversational French and Japanese PERSONAL • Captain, US Army Reserves (17 years-retired) • Mission work at Children’s orphanage in suburb of Nairobi Kenya Africa • First US citizen to race in 11-day Australian off-road motorcycle safari from Sydney to Darwin

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