From the Backroom to the Boardroom: Integrating IR into the Sustainability Value Chain

SUSTAINABILITY

Sometimes you have to look back to look ahead. For example, let’s take a look at IR’s journey from the backroom to the boardroom over the past five years, starting with an excerpt from a 2014 presentation. Then let’s fast forward to the 2019 Spring Seminar and Trade Show where Tate Duncan, Sr. Sustainable Solutions Analyst, Cox Communications, Inc. describes how he and his IR team have elevated their roles to an executive-level advisory group.

In 2014, Julia Urlaub was a featured speaker at the Spring Seminar & Trade Show that year. The following is an excerpt from her presentation on how the role investment recovery plays in corporate sustainability.

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