Webinar: ESG in Practice
Monday, September 16, 2024
Virtual Session
(Limited in-person option available.)
12:30- 1:30 PM (CDT)
About the Presentation:
Hunt Companies' Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) vision drives the company to achieve continuous improvement and remain a leader in corporate responsibility in the sectors and businesses in which it operates, and endeavors to live up to our stakeholders’ expectations through resilience, transparency, value creation, and giving back to our communities.
Hunt’s dedication to institutionalizing an ESG (Environmental Social Governance) program at the corporate level is a mission-driven effort led by evolving corporate polices, inclusive governance structures, and historical performance. Hunt’s mission is to analyze, integrate, and implement an enterprise-wide ESG program focused on and adapted to an evolving business footprint and risk profile.
The program is founded on four key priorities which are:
Speakers:
Matt Hunt is Senior Vice President, Sustainability Officer, and Managing Partner of Hunt Holdings LP for Hunt Companies, Inc.
In these roles, Mr. Hunt is responsible for implementing an enterprise-wide environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program for Hunt.
He also manages Hunt Holdings LP, which acts as an incubator for new business opportunities that complement and advance the Company’s real estate and infrastructure businesses. Since 2001, the Hunt portfolio has made commitments to over 45 VC funds and over 50 direct investments focusing on a range of markets and industries that include biotechnology, IT hardware, SAAS, healthcare tech, financial tech, education tech, energy technologies, and innovative materials. Over $100 million in capital has been deployed towards this portfolio, and exits have come through M&A and IPOs. Hunt plans to continue making investments in early-stage companies and funds.
Hunt has a deep interest in sustainable development, renewable energy, and resource conservation. Hunt is on the board and treasurer of Western Resource Advocates, an environmental advocacy non-profit, and on the board of Aspen Pitkin County Employee Housing, Inc., an affordable housing non-profit. He is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and Urban Land Institute. He is also active with the Nature Conservancy, National Outdoor Leadership School, Roaring Fork Conservancy, and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.
About Hunt:
Based in El Paso, Texas, Hunt Companies is a diversified, family-owned holding company that invests in operating businesses, real estate assets, and infrastructure assets. Since our founding in 1947, Hunt’s size and scope have grown substantially while gaining considerable expertise across multiple real asset sectors. Hunt provides development, investment, management and finance services to support the entire real estate lifecycle. Hunt and our affiliates’ activities range from managing and financing multifamily and affordable housing projects, to developing commercial real estate and master planned communities, as well as leading social infrastructure and construction projects and investing in future-facing technologies.
