About Us
We are committed to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles. Our mission is to create a positive impact by promoting sustainable practices, fostering social responsibility, and upholding strong corporate governance.
Sustainability catalyst
At ESG Advisory Services, we are the sustainability catalyst to drive businesses, business leaders, financial sector stakeholders towards a sustainable future. A team that is passionate and tenacious, design thinkers and solution oriented. Our research teams are typically composed of students and early professionals who come from the background of law, sustainability, finance, MBA and social work. They constantly feed our work and practices with latest developments ranging from geo-political, law and policy and other industry and market developments.
Since, sustainability of business is specific to industry/ sector and regulatory environment in which company operates, we create a specific team with the subject matter experts (SMEs) for a specific project. We engage with these SMEs who are the influencers, leaders and innovators of their own domains.
Ability and Capability
In our view, this is our differentiator, our ability and capability to leverage the multi-disciplinary expertise and experience of our researchers, our SMEs and our advisory group. ESG practice itself demands and requires professionals who can weave together different expertise, understand diverse fields, reconcile competing and opposing stakeholder interests and convey a simple, coherent and powerful action plan.
Umang Pathak, Founder
Umang Pathak is an accomplished lawyer and a corporate sustainability catalyst. In her two decades of professional experience, of which 17 years as a corporate lawyer at three of India’s finest law firms, Umang has advised various Indian and multinational companies, investment community and their leadership on various matters at the intersection of business, law and sustainability. She has assisted a range of clients including Indian companies (publicly listed and private), MNCs and investment community including venture capital and private equity funds, MSMEs, startups, impact funds and ESG Funds etc.
The breadth of her academic qualifications and professional experience has empowered her to understand the nuances of a business and take complete 360-degree view regarding applicability of law and sustainability in context of wider industry and regulatory trends and developments.
Umang is National President, Legal Awareness Council (NLAC) and member of Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI), which seeks to strengthen women’s entrepreneurship and boosts businesses through greater engagement with government, institutions, and global trade. NLAC focuses on collaborating and engaging with corporations, government and other stakeholders to ensure representation of women in leadership and governance and ensuring access to justice by removing institutional bias and strengthening the rule of law.
In furtherance, of her commitment towards sustainable leadership, Umang is a mentor for ESG Board Certification Program to be conducted by Divershefy Club (an organization focused on bringing women on boards and C-suite) in September 2023.
Brad Lienhart, CFO
Lienhart grew up in Illinois, got a BS in Business and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University, and an MBA in International Marketing and Economics from University of Missouri.
Brad’s next stop was a 28- year global career with The Dow Chemical Company, including marketing, supply chain management, M&A, and P&L responsibilities within the Industrial Chemical Business and finally as Global Leader of the Dow Chlorine Chemistry Business and founder of the Chlorine Chemistry Counsel with focus on environmental stewardship and stakeholder capitalism. Brad’s management assignments were in Dow USA, Dow Canada, and Dow Europe.
After Dow the next 30 years have focused on serial entrepreneurship, starting or participating at a C Level in another 40 companies; as investor, CEO, Chairman, CFO, or Chief Strategy Officer. In addition, Brad has coached another 500 entrepreneurs who wanted to start their own small business. The last 6 businesses Brad is active in are (REH LLC, inspirational products; Divershefy Inc, placement of highly qualified woman on midsize company boards; Wiser Systems, patented hardware to track assets; Emspire Group Corp, creator of the emstory video communications platform; Sollitto Adventure Tours, a tour management company focused on holly land destinations; and ESG Advisory Services, a consulting business focused on ESG and Supply Chain assessment, measurement, and compliance.
Brad brings his years of experience and connections to each of these diversified ventures, and as a stockholder and stakeholder makes sure they each are using the best practices to meet their product and environmental stewardship responsibilities and are using all the tools he has worked with including ESG initiatives, and in many cases improved, to assure stakeholder capitalism is maximized.
When asked what Brad likes to do for fun, his wife Jess of 56 years, says “he like to help people start new businesses, he likes to walk the dogs, he loves to read, and we like to travel. Our health is good and we enjoy life and our children and grandchildren”. You can learn more about Brad and his thoughts on Leadership, Planning, Stewardship, and Communications at www.bradlienhart.com or his uTube channel Lienhart leadership Consulting.
Swapna Gopinathan, CHR
Human Resource Professional with Hands-on understanding of nuances of various sectors including Telecom, Commercial, ITES and Life Sciences environment .
Swapna has over 20+ years of experience with her last 3 roles as the Human Resources Leader for the organization. Swapna brings with her expertise in managing HR transitions and her strength lies in establishing strategy and structure on HR Processes including Talent Management, Employee engagement and a roadmap for future.
Swapna has led & stabilized HR interventions in established workplaces as well as start-up environments with demonstrated competence in supporting complex People challenges with organizations like Tata Teleservices, Danaher, Capgemini, Genpact.
Ramisha Jain, Council
Ramisha is a young and enigmatic litigating lawyer specialising in criminal, electricity, projects, and infrastructure disputes.
Besides litigation, she has been handling currency, energy, climate change, carbon capture, and ESG transactions, and advising national and multi-national clients including startups.
She has also assisted in the drafting of model carbon capture agreements to be used in the African Continent.
Presently, she is also a Member of the Legal Aid Committee, Bar Council of Delhi.
