Marian Macindoe, New Head of ESG Stewardship at Parnassus Investments.

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Marian Macindoe, the new Head of ESG Stewardship at Parnassus Investments, an investment firm based in SF with over $45 billion in AUM. She is responsible for oversight of the firm’s proxy voting, ESG engagements and stockholder proposal strategy. Prior to joining Parnassus in 2022, Marian was the Head of ESG Strategy and Engagement at Uber Technologies. She acted as the Director of Investment Stewardship at Charles Schwab and prior to that as an Analyst and Advisor for Chevron on ESG issues. Marian was also the first Director of ESG Research at Glass, Lewis & Company. In this podcast, we talk about ESG and its evolution over the past decade or so. We also discuss ESG activism, Silicon Valley’s approach to ESG, the renewed criticisms and politicization of ESG, and the new proposed SEC climate disclosure regime. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com