WEBINAR | Eradicating Slavery in the Supply Chain

Patsy Doerr is responsible for overseeing the company’s corporate social responsibility, diversity & inclusion and sustainability functions. Patsy has over 20 years of experience in talent, learning, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, employee recognition and customer engagement mainly in investment banking. She has held a number of global leadership roles at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, in New York, London and most recently, Hong Kong. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Patsy was responsible for talent and learning, employee recognition, alumni relations and the global centers of excellence development effort at Credit Suisse in Asia Pacific. She was based in Hong Kong, but her responsibilities spanned 14 countries across the region. She has extensive experience with panel moderation, facilitation, communications and presentation. She was the key interviewer for CSTV in APAC and in that role, had the opportunity to work with Roger Federer and Tony Fernandes, CEO of Air Asia. She is a frequent guest speaker at various organizations, universities and schools, and is certified in a number of personality profiling and team building tools. She is passionate about supporting a diverse, global environment to support business goals. She was recently awarded with the Tri-State Diversity Council – Most Powerful & Influential Woman award and the Promoting Workforce Diversity & Gender Equality award for the Banking, Financial and Insurance industry sector by City State Reports. Patsy sits on the Board of Trustees for Marymount School for Girls, where she is also the President of the Alumni Association. She is also a member of the YMCA Leadership Committee, the 30% Club Steering Committee, the Business Advisory Board for PFLAG and a member of the Steering Committee for All in Together. Patsy has a BS in Biology (pre-medicine) from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA and a Master of Science (summa cum laude) in Adult Learning and Organizational Development from Fordham University in New York, NY. Patsy is an avid runner, focusing on half marathons and marathons all over the world, including Cambodia, Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, New York City, and most recently, London. She has two children (a 13 year old son, Nicholas and 10 year old daughter, Ella) and lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Jack currently manages two roles at Nestlé Purina PetCare. As the Head of Sustainability at Purina, Jack leads Purina’s sustainability efforts helping to connect different areas of the business with the right resources to act more sustainable while also growing Purina’s internal sustainability culture. Additionally, Jack holds the position of Head of Contract Manufacturing. In this role, Jack leads the company’s efforts to strategically source manufacturing capacity and capabilities both domestically and internationally. This includes managing Nestle Purina’s contract manufacturers in Thailand where we took action to eliminate labor and human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain. Poor labor conditions has been identified as one of the issues within the fish and seafood supply chain, particularly in Thailand’s fishing industry. Jack, along with others within Nestlé partnered with several key stakeholders to investigate, understand, and develop an action plan to address issues found. As part of this work, it was decided that openly sharing the results of their research to bring awareness and understanding of the endemic issues within the Thailand seafood industry were vital to encouraging other entities to take action. As a result, in November 2015, Nestlé commissioned Verité to publicly release this report, and coinciding with this release, Nestlé publicly released its action plan. One year into the program, over 99 percent of the seafood ingredients that Nestlé sources from its seafood supply chain in Thailand are now traceable back to farms and catch vessels. Jack thanks Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship for giving him this opportunity to share more and is looking forward to an open and transparent dialogue.