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ALO
ADVISORS®
SUSTAIN
DIFFERENTLY
At ALO Advisors, we think about sustainability leadership differently, believing that when the economics work, the environmental and social benefits will last
We are management consultants with an implementation mindset. We
differentiate ourselves by solving the most complex sustainability challenges,
regardless of geography or market. Through our global network and program
management expertise, we leverage the most knowledgeable subject matter
experts – from initial design and collaboration through execution to ensure the
ESG benefits will last.
OUR
STORY
OUR LEADERS
ALO ADVISORSJohn Platko
Becky Wisniewski
Peter Penning
Tristan Steichen
Peter Baty
OUR TEAM IN LATIN AMERICA
ALO ADVISORSKathia Elizondo
José Rodríguez
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Business Impacts
• Greater Profitability • Revenue Growth
• Higher Corporate Valuation
Social Impacts
• Workforce Protection
• Customer/Consumer Preference • Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Sustainability Program
Purposeful Organizations Efficiency & Improved Performance Innovation For Competitive Advantage
ALO
ADVISORS
Environmental Impacts
• Risk & Compliance Management • Footprint Reduction
• Supply Chain Optimization
ALO
ADVISORS• Complex Challenges
• Implementation Focused
• Global Network
ALO ADVISORSOUR
APPROACH
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• Effective Collective Action
• More Sustainable Decisions
• Forming & Deploying Strategies
• Applied Innovation
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WORK
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COLLECTIVE ACTION DESIGN, FACILITATION
& IMPLEMENTATION
• There exist large and complex risks that are greater than any
one organization can address
− Water security, climate change, ocean plastics, etc.
• Solutions require engagement of multiple stakeholders
− Businesses from multiple and varying supply chains
− Communities, academia and NGOs
− Governments and municipalities
ALO SOLUTION
Creating, implementing and managing effective collective action initiatives that establish process, accountability and leverage subject matter expertise to create value for participants
DRIVING MORE SUSTAINABLE
BUSINESS DECISIONS
• Sustainability initiatives are often a reaction to market pressures from
shareholders, customers and other stakeholders
− ‘The right thing to do’
− ‘Social license to operate’
− ‘Avoid green washing’
• Companies should look beyond these pressures and identify which
investments will deliver tangible value because when the economics
work the social and environmental benefits will last
ALO SOLUTION
Defining and monetizing these seemingly intangibles using
methodologies, tools and training can transform sustainability into a
FORMULATING & DEPLOYING
SUSTAINABILITY INTEGRATION
STRATEGIES
• Effective sustainability and EHS strategies, plans and programs
should create value for the enterprise
• Best in class organizations achieve results comprehensively
− In their facilities
− In the communities where they operate
− Across their value chains
− With customers and consumers
ALO SOLUTION
We work with clients on practical, proven ways to integrate these concepts directly into their organizational structures, relevant processes
EFFECTING SUSTAINABILITY-DRIVEN
INNOVATION
• Progressive organizations are pursuing sustainability as a new
competitive frontier, one that can be the basis for effective product,
service or business model innovation
• Whether these innovations are digital, circular, regenerative or
transformative, they will face practical challenges and must navigate
potential pitfalls before broad adoption
ALO SOLUTION
We work closely with clients to identify, understand and address these obstacles early in the process, enabling quicker market adoption and
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EDUCATION
• MS – Environmental Science, Florida Institute of Technology • BS – Aquatic Environments,
Allegheny College
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
• BEAC Certified Professional • Environmental Auditor
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Co-Founder, Driving Sustainable Decisions Working Group • Participant, Circular Economy
100, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Managing Partner
JOHN R. PLATKO, II
John Platko has more than 30 years of business, sustainability, environmental, health and safety leadership experience. His client engagements involve the development and
implementation of strategies, plans and programs that emphasize simultaneous creation of business, environmental and social value for private sector clients, NGOs and multilateral organizations operating domestically and internationally.
John has led projects in more than 40 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. He has been a practice leader on topics such as sustainability, innovation and commercial digital technology. John also specializes in collective action initiatives related to water security/water stewardship, climate change resiliency and formalization of waste management systems in emerging economies. Additionally, John cochairs the Driving Sustainable Decisions Working Group, which enables better, more sustainable decisions through development and deployment of investment case and business decision support tools.
Prior to consulting, John served on the corporate environmental staff for Scott Paper Company and Bristol-Myers Squibb and was a facility-level environmental engineer and safety director for a multi-site manufacturing operation. His current clients include Global 1000 organizations in the food/beverage, consumer products and various business-to-business sectors.
Managing Partner
BECKY WISNIEWSKI
Becky is a senior consultant and professional engineer with more than 20 years of
experience providing global environmental, health and safety, and sustainability services. Becky has worked extensively with both private multinational and public sector clients in the development and implementation of corporate environmental safety and
sustainability management systems, strategies, and programs for compliance and risk management. Becky has served as practice leader for audit, due diligence, and SEM (Strategic Environmental Management). In her SEM Practice, Becky worked with teams to bring cutting edge approaches to organizational diagnosis, root cause analysis, process facilitation and problem solving aimed at assisting client organizations in improving and optimizing EHS performance. Becky started her career as a design engineer for Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation in Boston before accepting an environmental
engineering role in the industrial environmental group for Charles T. Main, Inc. in
Charlotte, North Carolina. Becky then joined Delta Environmental Consultants to head up an environmental engineering department for their new Charlotte office.
Becky holds a BS in Civil Engineering and a BS in Environmental Engineering, both from The Pennsylvania State University and an MS in Environmental Engineering from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Registered Professional Engineer in multiple states.
EDUCATION
• MS – Environmental Engineering, The University of North Carolina • BS – Civil Engineering, The
Pennsylvania State University • BS – Environmental Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
• Registered Professional Engineer, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business – 2019 Practice Forum • Duke University Fuqua School of
Business – Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment - 2019 Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference
Managing Partner
PETER PENNING
With more than 30 years of international experience in sustainability, environmental, health and safety management, Peter Penning is uniquely qualified to address the sustainability needs of multinational clients. Peter is the architect of successful water stewardship and sustainability initiatives in more than 50 countries. He led the development of several large companies’ global water stewardship programs and managed the implementation of these programs across Europe, Africa, Latin-America and Asia-Pacific.
His client engagements involve the development and implementation of strategies, plans
and programs that emphasize simultaneous creation of business, environmental and social value for private sector clients, NGOs and multilateral organizations. Peter Penning is a highly skilled facilitator and trainer. His personal background – he lived and worked in 5 countries – makes him excel in assignments requiring cross-cultural communication strategies.
Between 2005 and 2012, Peter served as President and CEO of Inogen® Environmental Alliance, Inc., a global network of independent environment, health and safety management businesses.
Before embarking on his consulting career, Peter was a process and project engineer at ICI Chemicals & Polymers Ltd., plant manager at ICI Holland BV and QESH and General Manager at MECO Metal Finishing Sdn. Bhd. From his industrial experience he has gained a thorough background in corporate EHS&S, the application of cleaner industrial production and operational EHS compliance.
His current clients include Global 1000 organizations in the food/beverage, consumer products and financial sectors, as well as several non-governmental organizations.
EDUCATION
• MSC – Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Treasurer and Board Member, Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA) – non-governmental organization, Lisbon, Portugal
• Advisory Board Member Het Portaal (sustainability communications), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Partner
TRISTAN STEICHEN
Tristan Steichen has more than 25 years of experience providing consulting services, from global to small and mid-sized organizations. Tristan engages with customers to develop solutions that drive sustainability across the entire value chain, building fit-for-purpose solutions that make business sense for a broad range of industries.
Over the past several years, Tristan has been exploring circular economy principles and developing a deep understanding of the sustainability-related challenges manufacturing companies face around reuse, recycling and remanufacturing. This has allowed him to actively participate in thought-leading partnerships and coalitions including: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 Program, the REMADE Institute, the United Nations Environmental Program’s Industry Response Panel, and the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC).
Tristan has co-authored several circular economy-related publications, including:
“Modularity in ICT” (October 2016) and “Water and the Circular Economy” (October 2018); and has presented and facilitated multiple circular economy-related topics and working groups. Currently, he serves as the Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Committee and Governance Board for REMADE.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Chairman, Strategic Advisory Committee, REMADE Institute • Chairman, Governance Board,
REMADE Institute
• Participant, Circular Economy 100, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
EDUCATION
• BS – Environmental Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
EDUCATION
• MS – Environmental Management, University of San Francisco • BS – Civil/Environmental
Engineering, University of Vermont
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Engineer-In-Training (# 017-0002310)
• 40-Hour OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
• Registered Environmental Property Assessor (REPA # 136952)
• Lean Six Sigma, Yellow Belt
Partner
PETER BATY
Peter Baty is an environmental engineer with over 25 years of consulting experience
consisting primarily of environmental due diligence and liability assessment; environmental, health & safety (EHS) compliance assurance and risk management; renewable energy development; and sustainability/environmental, social, governance (ESG)/corporate social responsibility (CSR) advisory services.
Peter advises clients on a wide range of transaction types, encompassing mergers,
acquisitions and divestitures, which commonly require the financial quantification of risks and liabilities associated with site contamination, operational issues, and ESG-related risks and opportunities.
Throughout the United States and globally, Peter has provided a broad spectrum of
consulting services to multinational clients in a wide variety of sectors including banking & finance, manufacturing, renewable energy, defense, chemicals, utilities, oil & gas,
pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and transportation.
Peter has also provided a variety of consulting and engineering services associated with the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects (solar PV in particular) from site identification, feasibility assessment, and permitting; through design and construction support services.
Currently based in Boston, Peter has lived/worked in several states and abroad and has completed projects in over 40 different countries.
Associate
KATHIA ELIZONDO
Kathia Elizondo is a Sustainable Development Engineer with experience on water efficiency in manufacturing plants, water availability and high-water risk areas, environmental compliance, water treatment technologies, sanitation, culture transformation and training, and
environmental, health and safety governance. She has studied on environmental policy instruments and risk assessments for soil and water pollution at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
Kathia has worked in international organizations in the private and public sectors, started her career on water and sanitation projects with FEMSA Foundation and later won a national competition among 600+ participants to work with the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth Office for the United Nations in New York City Headquarters where she led a project on youth tracking data for the SDG on 193 Member States.
For the past years she has been an active leader on water efficiency usage and wastewater treatment for 40 snacks facilities in 14 Latin American countries providing process support, audits, and tailor-made solutions for production lines, optimizing true efficiency and reducing food waste from agriculture to packaging and the impact it has on resource intensity and
environmental impact, all sustained by a holistic cultural and educational campaign that aims to shift the way collaborators work and think about the relationship manufacturer: environment. Working on integrating all edges of sustainability in projects through assessments on the impacts and needs to thrive meeting international regulations based on numerous standards.
CONTACT DETAILS Email Kathia.Elizondo@aloadvisors.com Phone +52 81 1070 4578 EDUCATION • BS – Sustainable Development, Tecnológico de Monterrey
EDUCATION
• BS – Sustainable Development Engineering,
ITESM University, Monterrey, México CONTACT DETAILS Email Jose.Rodriguez@aloadvisors.com Phone +52 81 8095 1693
Associate
JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ
José Rodríguez is a professional engineer with relevant experience in manufacturing and wastewater treatment plants process efficiency, project management, regulatory compliance and environmental, health & safety management systems. José has served as project
manager and environmental, health and safety leader in the private sector for the food and beverage industry across America.
José started his professional career as an environmental sustainability engineer at PepsiCo México where he got to develop and execute the strategy for water and energy consumption reduction, renewable energy supply, environmental compliance and operational excellence of the 11 wastewater treatment plants in the country. As project leader he got to lead several projects with cross-functional teams aiming to reduce the environmental impacts through process strategies, management systems and breakthrough technology. He also led the R&D business unit transformation across Latin America by implementing a global
environmental, health and safety management system. José is an objective-driven
professional looking forward to solving complex problems through analytical thinking and strategic planning.
José is certified as ISO 14:001 and OSHAS 18:001 internal auditor and as Kaizen Leader. In addition, to strengthen his skills, he achieved a certification of Project Management Skills based on the PMI and IPMA standards from ITESM University.
Associate
LINA SERRANO
Lina Serrano is a versatile consultant with deep expertise on water security-related topics. Her experience ranges from hydrogeological theory, prospecting, environmental impact
assessments, to practical implementation of water security projects. She is a creative, agile, and adaptive person that quickly learns and applies the acquired knowledge to get results.
She is an experienced manager, having led multi-functional teams, both in academia and the corporate world. She has managed the implementation of water funds in Latin America – taking the organization from the feasibility stage to the operational stage.
Lina has implemented an effective and replicable methodology for informed decision-making and integrated water resource management in Latin America. Her past experience and skillset are key to linking academic research with consulting pragmatism to resolve clients’ problems. Additionally, her cultural exposure over the years – having worked and lived on three
continents – greatly helps with stakeholder engagement. CONTACT DETAILS
Email Lina.Serrano@aloadvisors.com Phone +57 32 1998 9443
EDUCATION
• PHD in Earth Sciences,
Geochemistry University of Padua • MSC in Earth Sciences,
Tectonics Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• BSC in Geology,
EAFIT University, Medellín Colombia
