Sammy Lakshmanan has over 20 years of helping companies shape their ESG and sustainability strategy leveraging technology and data to operationalize sustainability. He is a Partner with PwC's ESG Consulting practice, based in Houston, focused on the intersection of Digital and ESG. He has developed digital ESG roadmaps and business cases; designed and deployed technology platforms to collect, aggregate and analyze data; implemented governance and controls to ensure ESG data is of high quality and verifiable; and harnessed real-time analytics to embed ESG into day-to-day decision making. He has supported organizations in multiple sectors (food & beverage, retail, oil & gas, utilities, mining, aerospace & defense) in over 100 countries. Sammy is also co-chair of the Open Footprint(™) Forum - an industry group developing a global data standard for GHG and sustainability data