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FACILITATOR

Pamela Cone

CEO

Amity Advisory

Pamela Cone consults with leaders at professional services firms and their global networks to uncover, understand, explore and embrace their unique, strategic ESG practices, programs and positioning. 

Given her entire career in professional services firms and her graduate education, experience, and expertise in ESG, she is uniquely qualified to advise and counsel firms to move their efforts from "transactional" toward achieving greater "transformational" outcomes. Stakeholders expect nothing less.

FACULTY

GUEST SPEAKER

Patrick Linighan

Chief Sustainability Officer

Clyde & Co

Paddy Linighan is an experienced and skilled operations and finance professional, with over 35 years’ experience of operational and financial control, defining strategy and managing major business transformation programmes for large global organisations in the Legal Services sector. As Chief Operating Officer at Clyde & Co LLP, he has focussed upon business development and change initiatives, concentrating on the integration of technology, culture, and processes to leverage, improve and grow operations. 

Over the course of the last 20 years, he has also been actively involved in a volunteering capacity in trustee roles, supporting wildlife and conservation charities, together with LawWorks, the Solicitors Pro Bono Group. 

Since 2020 he has led the development of Clyde & Co’s Environmental Social & Governance Strategy which has seen their strategic positioning leapfrog from being an approach which was precautionary to one which is ambitious and market leading. In addition to being a member of the ICAEW, he is an alumnus of Oxford Said Business School’s Scenarios Programme, an IEMA Associate and is recognised as an ESG Ambassador.

GUEST SPEAKER

Aragon St-Charles

Global ESG Officer

Dentons

As the firm's first ever Global ESG Officer, Aragon is responsible for the design, implementation and leadership of the firm’s global ESG strategy. Aragon will work closely and collaboratively with the Dentons’ global leadership team and Global Board, to bring together critically important efforts across the Firm, while coordinating with the Firm’s Global ESG Steering Committee, responsible for developing market-leading ESG products and services for Dentons’ clients. A champion for ESG, Aragon ensures stakeholder engagement, and promotes key issues and considerations at all levels.



Aragon is an experienced ESG, Sustainability, and Business Operations leader with a demonstrable record of driving performance targets whilst delivering operational improvements & efficiencies, and transformational change within the legal and professional services industries. He is highly skilled in all aspects of general management, including Operations, HR, Financial Control, Business Development, Client Relationship Management, and Risk Management, and has a proven ability to translate strategic goals into tactical implementation.

Prior to Dentons, Aragon served as Hogan Lovells' first Head of Sustainability, alongside his role as Head of Operations for the Asia Pacific Region. In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the Responsible Business Committee in Hogan Lovells’ Tokyo office, where he led the firm’s community investment programs within Japan, as well as championing the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion and LGBTI initiatives. Prior to Hogan Lovells, Aragon has spent over a decade in senior operations and human resources and recruiting roles across professional services firms in Japan.