Alex Bernhardt is Principal and Head of Responsible Investment (RI) for Mercer in the US. He is a noted expert in catastrophe, weather, and financial risk management with a track record of leading large, complex, and innovative multinational projects. In his role as US RI leader, Alex works with institutional investors to address ever-evolving sustainability challenges. Prior to joining Mercer, Alex was a senior vice president at Guy Carpenter where he founded and ran the firm's GC Micro Risk Solutions® division.

Jonathan Kochmer is co-founder and CIO of Synectify, a National University of Singapore incubated startup currently working on pandemic response supply chains and Green FinTech innovation. In his 40-year career he has been an Evolutionary Ecologist and Biostatistician (Yale, 1981-1989), Internet pioneer (NorthWestNet / National Science Foundation Network, 1989-1995), Information Architect (Amazon, 1996-2001), and professional musician (Two Loons for Tea, 2001-2009). He is proudest however of having been Director of Research and Development at Earth Economics (2011-2017), where he spearheaded fundraising for and creation of the Ecosystem Valuation Toolkit.

James Pittman is a whole systems designer and professional consultant with more than 30 years of experience helping business, industry, government, non-profit and community leaders to achieve extraordinary success. Design of enterprise systems is his area of specialization, to support regeneration of real value within and between economic, financial, human, social, environmental and related domains. He is currently focused on energy, information and food systems, and has served clients in a wide range of sectors including financial technology, investment finance, blockchain, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, communications, land management, healthcare, tourism, philanthropy, social enterprise and other markets.