HPE
CEF Lead Executives
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MONICA BATCHELDER
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Chief Sustainability Officer
Monica directs a global team that sets the ESG vision, strategy, and implementation plan HPE. This includes guiding the development and management of strategic programs and collaborating with senior leaders across the organization and the Board to ensure the integration of ESG into the company’s business strategy. Previously, Monica was HPE’s Director of ESG Strategy and Operations leading ESG strategy which includes HPE advocacy on ESG topics, shareholder and stakeholder outreach, setting the agenda of the Living Progress Strategy Council while also continuing to develop HPE's ESG narrative and reporting. Prior to HPE, Monica led the client services function at a sustainability consultancy in Sydney, Australia, where she shaped programs for diverse organizations such as Unilever, WWF, and the National Australia Bank. Monica received her M.A. in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Sydney and a B.A. from Boston College.
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JOHN FREYList Item 1
Chief Technologist, Sustainable Transformation
Dr. John Frey developed and leads HPE’s practice for customer collaboration on sustainability and IT efficiency. He partners with HPE’s largest customers, stakeholders, and governments to develop low-carbon solutions to business challenges, share best practices, and drive new business opportunities. Dr. Frey frequently shares his expertise at international conferences and events, as well as in books, technical whitepapers, and certification programs. He is widely quoted in broadcast, online, and print media. Dr. Frey is a member of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Steering Council at Texas A&M University, and Sustainable Brands’ Advisory Board.
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AMY BOWDISH
Manager, Circular Economy
Amy Bowdish drives HPE’s circular economy initiative, setting the roadmap for the circular economy strategy. She also supports the deployment of go-to-market programs and initiatives. Amy leads the Living Progress speakers bureau, identifying, evaluating and executing opportunities to activate sustainability messaging at key events, including creating opportunities for executive placement and customer engagements. She serves as primary creative manager for sustainability driven outputs including videos, reports, digital media and other publishing assets and also oversees sustainability awards submissions.
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LIAM GRIFFITHS
Director, Climate and Environment
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TIFFANI JARNIGAN
CEF Leadership Program Winner (2019)
Manager, ESG Process and Innovation
Tiffani drives oversight and responsibility for all ESG targets throughout the value chain. Tiffani also works with product teams across the business to drive innovation into HPE solutions, to better demonstrate leadership and alignment transitioning the business into the low-carbon economy. Since joining HPE, Tiffani has spearheaded the expansion of the company’s sustainability sales enablement team, which has generated millions in new revenue for the company, and has earned HPE industry-leading performance on ESG ratings including DJSI, MSCI and EcoVadis. Tiffani brings a diverse background in environmental development and business intelligence reporting, including two years serving in the Dominican Republic where she specialized in rural water infrastructure projects. Tiffani holds an M.A. in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute of Int’l Studies and a B.A. from Rutgers University.
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FRED TAN
Social Impact Strategy
Fred leads a team responsible for the strategic development, implementation, and management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s social sustainability, philanthropic, and corporate social responsibility programs. Before joining HPE, Fred was most recently at Village Capital, where he led the organization’s global impact partnerships and strategic growth. In a career that also spans time in government and consulting, Fred has rolled up his sleeves to scale social impact and build community partnerships, strengthen the impact investing ecosystem, and develop new integrated solutions to help enterprises manage corporate responsibility and sustainable development issues. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Brigham Young University and a Master in International Security – Global Economic Policy; China and East Asian Studies from Sciences Po – Paris School of International Affairs.
Sustainability Goals
Goals through 2040
2025 Sustainability Goals
- Increase the energy performance of product portfolio 30X (2015 baseline)
- Reduce operational GHG emissions by 55% (2016 baseline)
- Source 50% of total electricity consumption in operations from renewables
- Reduce absolute manufacturing-related GHG emissions in the supply chain by 15% (2016 baseline)
- Enable 80% of production suppliers (by spend) to set science-based targets
2030 Sustainability Goals
- Reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 70% (2020 baseline)
- Reduce Scope 3 emissions by 42% (2020 baseline)
2040 Sustainability Goals
- Achieve net zero across its entire value chain (Scopes 1–3)
- Reduce its entire global footprint by 90%
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(June 2023)
Highlights
- In 2022, accelerated company’s net-zero commitment from 2050 to 2040;
- HPE’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions decreased 21% (2020 baseline).
- Sourced 52% renewable energy in 2022, surpassing 2025 target of sourcing 50%.
- In FY22, Scope 3 emissions remained constant year-over-year despite a 2.6% increase in net revenue.
- In June 2022, 96 HPE systems made the Green 500 list of the world’s most energy efficient supercomputers.
- Last year HPE Technology Renewal Centers processed roughly 3.6 million IT assets in 2022, remarketing 82% for a second life.
- Diverted 90% of non-hazardous waste from landfill
- Increased representation of women by 0.31% and ethnically diverse talent by 1.27%.
- 39% of HPE’s top suppliers, by spend, have set Scope 1 and 2 science-based targets within their operations.
- In 2022, HPE launched three new supply chain responsibility targets to strengthen human rights protections. These protections include monitoring programs that reached 235,533 workers in the HPE supply chain in the last fiscal year.
Recent News
2024
CORPORATE KNIGHTS — Released its 20th annual Global 100 List, ranking the world’s most sustainable companies along 25 indicators, out of 6,000 public companies with revenues of over $1 billion. In 2024, top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% last year, and compared to just 17% of investments of publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue. The top ranked company was Sims Ltd, an Australian waste management company that moved up from #14 in 2023. CEF Members in the Global 100 include: Schneider Electric (#7), Trane Technologies (#23), Cisco (#64), HP Inc. (#67), Apple (#71), Unilever (#76), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (#81), and Prologis (#87). (Jan 2024)
2023
CORPORATE KNIGHTS — Released its 2023 Global 100 List, ranking the world’s most sustainable companies along 25 indicators, out of 6,000 public companies with revenues of over $1 billion. The top list has outperformed the MSCI All Country World Index on an annual basis for seven of the past 11 years. The top spot went to Schnitzer Steel Industries, a steel recycler that increased energy productivity by 74%, water productivity by 69%, and carbon productivity by 55% in 2021. CEF Members in the Global 100 include: Schneider Electric (#7), Alphabet (#26), Ecolab (#30), Unilever (#38), HP (#39), Cisco (#48), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (#67), and Apple (#73). (Jan 2023)
JUST CAPITAL — Released its JUST 100 list for 2023 in collaboration with CNBC. Of 951 large public companies, 100 were scored for their just business behaviors, such as paying a fair living wage, protecting workers’ health, and minimizing pollution (based on the polling of 3,002 Americans). Of the top 10, five were CEF members, including Bank of America (#1), Microsoft (#3), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (#7), Apple (#8), and JPMorgan Chase (#10). In total, 23 CEF member companies were included in the 2023 JUST 100 list. (Jan 2023)
2022
NEWSWEEK / STATISTA — Released its “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023” list, which ranks 500 of the U.S. largest public companies based on their ESG performance. The top 50 include CEF members: HP (#1), Qualcomm (#13), Microsoft (#17), Cisco (#19), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (#34), Walt Disney (#39), Mastercard (#40), and Ecolab (#46). (Dec 2022)
ACTION DECLARATION ON CLIMATE POLICY ENGAGEMENT — More than 50 global companies, with almost $900 billion in annual revenues, committed to ensuring that their climate policy engagement, and that of their industry associations, helps address climate change, rather than stall it. The declaration also includes the monitoring and disclosing of climate policy alignment for signatory companies and their major industry and trade associations. CEF member signatories include: Ecolab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Schneider Electric, Trane Technologies, and Unilever. (Nov 2022)
Accelerated its commitment to net zero across its entire value chain (Scopes 1–3) by 2040, ten years ahead of its original commitment. The goal is backed by SBTi-approved 2030 targets to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 70% and Scope 3 emissions by 42% (2020 baseline for both targets). By 2040 the company also plans to reduce its entire global footprint by 90%. HPE has introduced two new initiatives that will drive progress toward these targets and commitments at the leadership level (June 2022):
- In 2022, all company leaders at the VP level and higher will complete a mandatory climate training program, which the company hopes will empower them to create action/impact plans within their respective purviews.
- A new compensation metric for the company’s Executive Committee that ties a portion of variable pay to HPE’s management of carbon emissions across its value chain.
2021
CDP “A LIST” — 272 out of nearly 12,000 companies scored by CDP made CDP’s 2021 “A List,” which includes a climate change A List (200 companies), a water security A List (118 companies), and a forests A List (24 companies). The lists recognize companies for their “environmental leadership,” all of which are reducing their value chain emissions and have verified Scope 1 and 2 emissions, SBTi-approved emission-reduction targets, evidence of targets that cover their Scope 3 emissions, “robust governance and oversight of climate issues,” and “rigorous risk management processes.” A record 14 companies received Triple A scores for their work across all three themes, including: Danone, Firmenich, Fuji Oil Holdings, CEF member HP, International Flavors & Fragrances, KAO Corporation, Klabin, Lenzing, L’Oréal, Metsä Board Corporation, Mondi, Philip Morris International, Syrmise, and CEF member Unilever. Additional CEF members on the A Lists include: Ecolab (water security), Ford (climate change, water security), General Motors (water security), HPE (water security), Microsoft (climate change, water security), PepsiCo (forests), Samsung (water security), Schneider Electric (climate change), Visa (climate change). (Dec 2021)
NEWSWEEK / STATISTA — Released its “America's Most Responsible Companies 2022” list, which ranks 500 public companies based on their ESG performance (up from 400 companies previously). The top 20 includes CEF members HP (#1), HPE (#7), Cisco (#13), and Ecolab (#18). (Dec 2021)
TERRA CARTA SEAL RECIPIENTS —
HRH The Prince of Wales’ initiative and Corporate Knights
awarded their inaugural “Terra Carta Seal” to 45 companies
that are putting “Nature, People and Planet at the heart of” economic value creation.
All recipients have aligned with the
Terra Carta charter, committed to achieving net zero by 2050 or halving GHG emissions by 2035, and committed to standardizing their reporting metrics. Recipients include CEF members
Amazon, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., PepsiCo, Trane Technologies,
and Unilever.
(Nov 2021)
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Over 600 companies representing more than $2.5 trillion in revenue
wrote an
open letter urging G20 nations to end support for coal power and “go all-in” on a commitment to halve global emissions by 2030.
They called for an
immediate end to new coal-power financing and development, as well as a
phase-out of coal-fired power generation for advanced economies by 2030 and for other countries by 2040. The letter was published through the
We Mean Business coalition, and signatories include CEF members
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, PepsiCo, Schneider Electric,
and Unilever.
(Oct 2021)
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise /
Intel / Microsoft —
Launching a
virtual tech conference this month for all Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the U.S, which the companies say is the first conference of its kind. Students can learn tech skills, access online learning programs, and participate in a “Bot A Thon,” whose finalists will have the opportunity to interview for internships with HP and Microsoft. (Sept 2021)
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Shareholder advocacy group
As You Sow
released an updated “Racial Justice Scorecard” for the S&P 500, using 26 key performance indicators on racial justice, including four new indicators on “environmental racism.” CEF members
Alphabet, General Motors, HPE,
and
Microsoft
are among the list’s
top 10 best-performing companies. The NGO plans to
initiate conversations with poor scorers and file shareholder proposals at those companies’ annual meetings in 2022. (Aug 2021)
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Nearly 100 leaders of companies, associations, and organizations—including CEF members
Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon, Alphabet, General Motors, Mastercard, HP Inc., Cisco,
and
TPG Capital—sent a letter urging Congress to pass legislation to create a pathway to citizenship for the “Dreamers”—who would benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The leaders were organized by the
Coalition for the American Dream. (Aug 2021)
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RE100
— The RE100 companies, which are committed to 100% renewable electricity, now have an electricity demand greater than that of the U.K. or Italy and are on track to save CO2 emissions equal to burning over 118 million tons of coal per year. RE100 members include
CEF Members:
3M, Apple, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Dell Technologies, Ecolab, Facebook, General Motors, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mastercard, McKinsey & Co., Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Siemens AG, TD Bank Group, Trane Technologies, Unilever,
and Visa.
(July 2021)
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Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders
— Formed in 2014 to catalyze bold corporate climate actions,
70 members of the alliance—including CEOs from BASF, HPE, PepsiCo, Siemens, and Unilever—published an open letter to all world leaders ahead of the G7 Summit demanding transformative policy change to enable a net-zero world. Signatories also
encouraged governments to work together with the private sector to deliver on shared ambitions “within a clearer and more ambitious policy framework.” (June 2021)
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Low-Carbon Patent Pledge
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An HPE-led initiative in collaboration with Facebook and Microsoft, pledging to make over 400 patents applicable to the development, storage, and distribution of low-carbon energy technology royalty-free to the public.
Additional patent owners may join. (April 2021)
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More than 300 businesses representing over $3 trillion in annual revenue and employing nearly 6 million US workers signed an open letter calling upon President Biden to adopt a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 50% by 2030 (2005 baseline). Organized by the We Mean Business coalition and Ceres, signatories of the letter included: Apple, Dell Technologies, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Siemens, Trane Technologies, Unilever, and VF Corporation. (April 2021)
A coalition of companies, environmentalists, and energy trade groups—including Google, HPE, and Trane Technologies—sent President Biden a letter and memo urging adoption of “higher-impact carbon-free federal electricity procurement.” (April 2021)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) plans to build a $35 million supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research to improve the predictability of natural events, including hurricanes, wildfires, and solar storms. (March 2021)
Ethisphere released its 2021 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. CEF members recognized include (March 2021):
- 3M
- ADM
- Aptiv
- CBRE
- Dell Technologies
- Ecolab
- General Motors
- HanesBrands
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Honeywell
- HP
- International Paper
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kimberly-Clark
- Mastercard
- Microsoft
- PepsiCo
- VF Corporation
- Visa
- Waste Management
A major new coalition, “America is All In,” launched to mobilize bold climate ambitions nationally and uphold the federal government’s commitment to climate action—specifically to cut U.S. emissions in half or more by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Co-led by UN Special Climate Envoy Michael Bloomberg, the coalition effectively merges We Are Still In and America’s Pledge and is the most expansive effort ever assembled to support climate action in the U.S., involving U.S. businesses, cities, states, tribal nations, schools, and faith groups, health care organizations, and cultural institutions. Large companies involved include: 3M, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, ADM, Autodesk, BASF, Best Buy, Cargill, Carrier Corporation, The Clorox Company, Coca-Cola, Danone N.A., Dell Technologies, Dow Inc., DSM N.A., DuPont, eBay, Edison International, Facebook, Gap, General Mills, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Inc., IKEA U.S., Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Kellogg Company, LafargeHolcim, Levi Strauss & Co., L’Oréal, Mars Incorporated, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Mondelez International, National Grid, Nestle, NIKE, Novozymes, PG&E Corporation, PepsiCo, Salesforce, Siemens, Sony Corporation of America, Starbucks, Steelcase, Target, Tiffany & Co., Trane Technologies, Verizon, VF Corporation, Walmart, and Waste Management. (February 2021)
S&P Global released their 2021 Sustainability Yearbook, an annual assessment to distinguish the top-performing companies in corporate sustainability. The Yearbook covers a record 7,032 companies across 40 countries and 61 industries. CEF members Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Unilever, and Waste Management earned the highest “Gold Class” status by achieving an S&P Global ESG Score within 1% of their industry's top-performing company's score. (February 2021)
Corporate Knights released the 2021 Global 100 Index, which ranks the world’s most sustainable companies based on environmental and financial indicators. CEF members honored include Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Trane Technologies, Siemens, and Unilever. (January 2021)
2020
HPE was among the highest rated in the “2020 Information and Communications Technology Sector Benchmark” (KnowTheChain, June 2020), which scored the 49 largest companies in the Information and Communications Technology sector based on their actions to mitigate forced labor in the supply chain.
HPE joined a group of 155 companies that jointly signed a statement calling on government leaders around the world to ensure their economic recovery packages are aligned with the latest climate science. The statement was organized by joint press release by the Science Based Targets initiative, the UN Global Compact, and the We Mean Business coalition. (May 2020)
HPE donated $50 million in secure connectivity kits to provision pop-up clinics, testing sites, and temporary hospital facilities in the U.S. and Europe. (March 2020)
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Included on Ethisphere's 2020 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. (March 2020)
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Included on CDP's “Climate Change A List,” which recognizes companies for demonstrating leadership on climate risk management in 2019. (Jan 2020)
2019
Joined a group of 28 companies that commit "to more ambitious climate targets aligned with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and reaching net-zero emissions by no later than 2050.” The group of participating companies has a combined market capitalization of $1.3 trillion. (July 2019)
Included on Ethisphere's 2019 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. (March 2019)
Recognized as one of 120 companies — out of more than 5,500 companies analyzed — on CDP’s Supplier Engagement leaderboard (“Global Supply Chain Report 2019”) for their work with suppliers to reduce emissions and lower environmental risks in the supply chain. (Feb 2019)
Included on CDP's “2018 A List” for demonstrating leadership on climate change. (Jan 2019)