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Ebban Clause
Smruti Naik-Jones
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Ebban Clause

Title: Chief Sustainability & Strategy Officer Company: Caterpillar Inc. Industry: Manufacturing
Ebban is Caterpillar’ s Chief Sustainability and Strategy Officer and a Senior Vice President, leading the company’ s enterprise strategy and sustainability efforts. A Caterpillar veteran of more than 20 years, she has held senior commercial, technology, sales, marketing and services roles across North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, bringing a global, customer-focused perspective.

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Smruti Naik-Jones

Title: Chief Sustainability Officer, EMEA Company: Deloitte Industry: Consulting
As Deloitte’ s first Chief Sustainability Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Smruti leads the professional services firm’ s WorldClimate strategy and advances the firm’ s net zero and sustainability agenda. Smruti’ s role covers 80 countries and 132,000 people. Smruti has led strategy and transformation programmes over the past 17 years.
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