Notes from the Desk

Dan Romito


Dan Romito is a consulting partner at Pickering Energy Partners, where he focuses on quantitative ESG strategy and implementation. Over the course of his career, Dan has advised several hundred private companies, public issuers, and asset managers on how to optimize capital deployment strategies and employ ESG-related directives. A substantial portion of his experience has centered on helping the Energy, Industrial, Materials, and Utility sectors navigate ESG-focused data providers, frameworks, disclosures, and the corresponding investor landscape. His experience and research on ESG, Index/ETF Ownership, and Shareholder Activism has been featured in a variety of global periodicals, including Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, CNBC, Bloomberg, Global Investor magazine, and IR Magazine. Prior to Pickering, Dan spent several years at Nasdaq, where he specialized in investor analytics, issuer technology solutions, and ESG implementation. During his tenure at Nasdaq as the Global Head of Investor Analytics, he developed several key technology solutions and services under Nasdaq’s Corporate Platform’s repertoire, including their investor behavioral analytics platform, the ESG Advisory Service, the Insight360 Analytics module, the Activist Diagnostic, Capital Deployment Scenario Analysis, and the Small Cap Investor Targeting Service. Dan received his B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and his MBA in Finance from DePaul University. He is a board member on the Energy ESG Council and is a professor at Marquette University, where he teaches ESG implementation, strategy, and certification.