Measurabl Adds Real Estate Finance Veteran To Lead ESG Capital Markets Division
Sara Anzinger will help real estate owners leverage ESG data in borrowing, capital raises.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sara Anzinger has joined Measurabl, the world's most widely adopted ESG software platform for commercial real estate, to lead its Capital Markets division, which will help its customers leverage ESG data to obtain superior financing terms, better manage ESG-driven credit risk, and identify sustainable investment opportunities.
The move comes as investors, lenders, and other financial stakeholders clamor for rigorous disclosure of ESG (environmental, social, governance) performance and are increasingly willing to reward those who demonstrate superior performance while penalizing those who fail to disclose, or perform poorly.
Anzinger was most recently Director of Sustainable Finance at credit ratings agency, Fitch, and previously Managing Director of Real Estate Debt & Fixed Income at GRESB, a real estate benchmarking organization.
Measurabl operates the world's most widely adopted software platform to measure, benchmark, and disclose the ESG performance of commercial real estate. The company is working with leading real estate owners, lenders, and ratings agencies to create a more accurate and convenient way to track, benchmark, and share ESG data so it can be applied to lending and investment underwriting and due diligence at scale.
"Organizations are doing incredible work on ESG, but are unable to unlock that value because they can't easily share timely, accurate ESG data with their lending and investment partners," said Measurabl's CEO and Founder, Matt Ellis. "On the reverse side, lenders and other financial services providers don't have a scalable way to integrate ESG into loan underwriting and deal monitoring over time. Sara's sustainable finance expertise paired with our platform's global scale and data quality assurance processes uniquely position her to solve this challenge."
Sara drove the development and implementation of Fitch's sustainable finance initiative in the Americas, resulting in a first-of-its-kind transparency enhancement (ESG Relevance Scores) that shows how ESG issues impact individual credit ratings. Before her work with Fitch, Sara started GRESB's Debt Assessment, which sought to understand the ESG performance of lenders and how ESG data could be applied to lending decision-making.
"The market wants to integrate ESG data into both debt and equity underwriting to make more objective and informed decisions about capital allocation," said Anzinger. "I look forward to helping our customers and their capital partners add value through ESG consideration."
The move comes just as the Business Roundtable, the leading consortium of major American companies, has redefined the purpose of business to serve stakeholders beyond shareholders alone. ESG criteria will be the yardstick for how well businesses are performing on this expanded mandate.
Measurabl will base its ESG Capital Markets operations out of a new office in Amsterdam, complementing existing satellites in New York and London.
About Measurabl
Measurabl is the world's most widely adopted ESG software for commercial real estate. In excess of 8 billion square feet of commercial property valued over USD $2 trillion across 70 countries use Measurabl to measure, manage, and disclose environmental, social and governance performance. ESG data is used to improve building operations, comply with government regulation, and access capital markets. Learn more at http://www.measurabl.com.
SOURCE Measurabl, Inc.
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