SIGNAL Climate Analytics Team
Tim Nixon
Co-Founder & CEO
Tim Nixon is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Signal Climate Analytics and previously Co-Founded Constellation Research & Technology. He is an ongoing contributor to Reuters Sustainable Business. He is the Founder of the Sustainability thought-leadership platform at Thomson Reuters. He is a member of the CEO Investor Forum advisory board and is a Founder and Steering Committee member to the United Nations Science, Business & Policy Forum. Tim is a lawyer by training and has spent most of his career building change-leading initiatives.
Christopher Mangieri
Co-Founder & COO
Chris Mangieri is a Co-Founder and the COO of Signal Climate Analytics and previously Co-Founded Constellation Research & Technology. He is an entrepreneur and a co-author of multiple climate-related reports, including an upcoming United Nations Environment Programme GEO for Business report on future-proofing infrastructure for climate resilience. Chris is an expert in climate data analytics, data integration, and sector-based decarbonization. He spent time as an environmental engineer at Langan Engineering where he worked on the Hudson Yards redevelopment project in NYC. He completed his M.S. in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Finance from Columbia University and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont.
Advisors
Dr. David Lubin
Senior Advisor
David Lubin has more than 25 years of experience successfully founding and managing technology and consulting firms that have become world leaders in the field of corporate performance management, business analytics, and new media. David Lubin previously Co-Founded Constellation Research & Technology and served as it’s Managing Director.
Dr. Lubin served as Chairman of the Sustainability Innovators Working Group, a research consortium established by David Lubin and Professor Daniel C Esty of Yale University. In that role, Dr. Lubin directed a large-scale research effort in which world-leading firms such as IBM, Unilever, Federal Express, Microsoft, and many others worked collaboratively on new models for developing and executing corporate sustainability strategy. In addition, Dr. Lubin directed a research study for the IFC / World Bank entitled, Assessing and Unlocking the Value of Emerging Market Sustainability Indices.
Dr. Lubin served as Chairman of the Board of Palladium Group, a firm he founded with David Norton (the Balanced Scorecard) in 2005, whose mission is advancing applications of business analytics to improve corporate performance. Prior to Palladium, he co-founded Renaissance Solutions, Inc. in 1991. Renaissance went public in 1995 and grew to become a global IT and management consulting firm employing over 6000 people. Prior to Renaissance, Dr. Lubin was Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Spectrum Interactive, Inc. Spectrum launch in 1981, was a leading pioneer in the field of multi-media hardware, software, and applications in online learning and electronic merchandising. Spectrum was venture capital financed and ultimately successfully acquired in 1989.
Before beginning his career in business, Dr. Lubin was a member of the faculties at both Tufts and Harvard University. David Lubin received his Doctorate at Harvard University in Human Development in 1977. He continues to advise venture and private equity funds, as well as non-profit organizations. He is a frequent speaker and writer, including a seminal article in Harvard Business Review entitled, The Sustainability Imperative (David Lubin and Dan Esty, HBR, May 2010) and Bridging the Sustainability Gap, MIT Sloan Review, 2014. He was also the Principal Contributor to the UN PRI and UN Global Compact report entitled the Value Driver Model.
Robert Jenkins
Senior Advisor
Bob has over 25 years experience in the Financial Services and Asset Management industries having served in numerous executive and investment management roles at Fidelity Investments in addition to time spent as a strategy consultant in the Asset Management/FIG practice of McKinsey & Company. As the Global Head of Research and Mutual Funds at Refinitiv, Bob oversees the Lipper fund analytics business propositions and investment research functions. Bob also serves on the Investment Committee of Refinitiv overseeing the firm’s global defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans.
Bob earned an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Over his career he has held FINRA Series 4, 7, 8, 9/10, 24 and 63 General Securities licenses and has served as a General Securities Principal and as a Senior Registered Options Principal. In addition to numerous speaking events and financial media appearances, he has authored several white papers on topics such as Retirement Investing, Investment Policy and Portfolio Manager Selection.