About Us

Unlock Value Through Sustainability™

Malk Sustainability Partners (MSP) is a specialty management consultancy that guides investors and businesses in developing profitable corporate sustainability strategies. Our work in responsible investing and sustainable business practices helps firms reduce exposure to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, cut resource-driven operating expenses, enhance brand value, and attract new investors.

Our broad portfolio of relationships across the sustainability community includes the UN Principals for Responsible Investment (PRI), US Private Equity Growth Capital Council (USPEGCC), Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), World Resource Institute (WRI), and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which ensures our clients effectively engage with industry organizations at the heart of the sustainability dialog in their sector.

Our deep expertise and seasoned technical team position us as a trusted advisor to numerous investment institutions and businesses, providing them with the tools necessary to design, implement, and communicate effective sustainability strategies.

Simply stated, we Unlock Value Through Sustainability™.

Why Focus on Sustainability

Managing environmental, social, and governance issues, often broadly categorized as sustainability, is an added dimension of competitive advantage our clients leverage across the private equity, IT & software, banking, consumer goods, and real estate sectors. Collectively, MSP’s team has:

• Reviewed portfolio companies for resource-driven (energy, waste, water) cost out                   opportunities and developed ESG leadership training tools for a PEI Top 100 private equity firm
• Designed an ESG strategy for a PEI Top 50 private equity firm
• Audited facilities and standard operating procedures for resource-driven (energy, waste, water) cost out opportunities in a public holding company’s portfolio
• Driven $2.8 million in annualized savings from recycling electronic waste, optimizing packaging, and reducing office and network energy spend for a telecommunications operator. In addition to lowering costs, our strategy enabled this client to differentiate its brand by engaging customers and regulators on sustainability
• Designed a bank’s sustainability strategy that included a green lending program to capitalize on the $1 trillion energy efficiency and $135 billion green building markets
• Organized the ICT for Green Asia conference that brought together leading telecom companies to explore the $1 trillion IT enablement opportunity to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint

How MSP Can Help Your Company

With client experience across multiple industries, MSP can help your company design a sustainability strategy that will drive corporate performance. Specifically, we can help you:

• Identify and systematically target operational cost savings in your facilities, logistics, production, and packaging processes by reducing spend on energy, waste, and water;
  
• Understand and exceed your customers’ expectations for environmental and social responsibility, enhancing your brand and supporting your sales efforts;
• Manage sustainability risks related to regulation, increasing commodity                               prices, water/energy/carbon volatility in your operations, supply chain, and due diligence; and
• Communicate sustainability success to position your company and products as leaders in the green innovation economy amongst customers, investors, regulators, and employees.

More information on our sector-specific practices and experience is available on the industries page of our website.