Scoring Points: What Investors Look for in ESG Scores

Zef Lokhandwalla

Energy Markets Specialist

Bloomberg

Zef Lokhandwalla is an Energy Markets Specialist at Bloomberg, New York. Zef worked for 20+ years as a Portfolio Manager and Analyst of Energy securities, trading relative value across asset classes - Equities, Commodities, Debt and Credit. Prior to joining Bloomberg earlier this year, Zef worked at BlueCrest Capital Management, Hess Energy Trading Co (now Hartree Partners), Exxon and NASA Johnson Space Center. Zef has extensive experience conducting oil & gas research, building econometric supply & demand models to forecast crude oil, products & natural gas balances, generating trade ideas and executing cross-asset class trading and hedging strategies. Zef has long standing relationships with oil & gas producers, traders, investors, money managers and has participated in numerous energy conferences as moderator, guest speaker and panelist.

Rob Du Boff

Senior ESG Analyst

Bloomberg Intelligence

Rob Du Boff is a senior analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research. He is a also a product manager for Bloomberg's recently released ESG Governance Scores.

He joined BI from JUST Capital, a non-profit that ranks the largest U.S. public companies on ESG priorities. Previously, he worked for over a decade on Wall Street as an equity research analyst, most recently as a senior oil & gas analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. He also worked at Millennium Partners and Merrill Lynch covering energy, basic resources, and retail.

Rob holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA in finance and accounting from NYU’s the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Aaron Vandeford

President

EnerCom

Aaron joined EnerCom in May 2008. He has more than 15 years of financial experience building quantitative models and analyzing capital markets. As President of EnerCom Inc., Aaron oversees the consulting team and all aspects of the firm’s service offerings. Over the past decade with EnerCom, Aaron has played key roles in the development, expansion and evolution of EnerCom’s proprietary operational and financial databases as well as the company’s predictive valuation models. He has worked with E&P, Oilfield Service and private equity clients large and small, public and private, to better understand valuation and refine marketing messages. Aaron has traveled to major investments hubs in the U.S. and Europe with clients introducing management teams to targeted institutional, family office and high-net-worth investors. Aaron received his B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Willamette University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Denver.

Jeff Nichols

Partner and Co-chair - Energy Practice Group

Haynes Boone

Licensed in Texas and New York, Jeff has more than 19 years of experience representing a variety of clients in the energy and finance industries with secured and unsecured credit facilities, project finance and other structured energy transactions. As the co-chair of the firm's Energy Practice Group, Jeff has broad experience in all facets of the energy business with a focus in the merchant energy industry particularly on working with ISDA, NAESB, EEI and other industry form agreements. He is also a member of the Haynes Boone Executive Committee. Jeff regularly speaks and writes on current topics in the energy industry.

Jennifer T. Wisinski

Haynes & Boone

Jennifer Wisinski is the chair of the Business Transactions Department and has more than 20 years of experience in a broad range of transactions, from capital markets transactions to private and public company mergers and acquisitions. In the capital markets area, Jennifer focuses on efficiently and successfully helping public company clients complete both equity offerings and debt refinancings involving the issuance of debt securities and the retirement of existing debt through tender offers. Jennifer has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions including negotiated cash and stock-for-stock mergers, going private transactions, as well as hostile tender offers and proxy contests. In addition, Jennifer counsels clients on activism and anti-takeover matters, general securities laws compliance, and corporate governance issues. Jennifer works with clients across a range of industries including energy, manufacturing, and financial services, among others. Jennifer also serves as the firm’s counsel on Hart-Scott-Rodino, a federal statue which requires notifying the FTC and DOJ of certain acquisitions and observing a “waiting period” before they are completed. Given the uptick in investigations and enforcement over the past several years, Jennifer works closely with the firm’s antitrust lawyers to resolve informal investigations by the FTC or the DOJ that are commenced in connection with an HSR filing.