Keila Hand is the Managing Director and Head of ESG, for Quantum Energy Partners. Before joining Quantum in 2020, she served as Director of Global Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Crown Holdings. Prior to Crown Holdings, she was Director of Environmental Sustainability, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa for PepsiCo. She also led corporate sustainability partnerships at the World Wildlife Fund and was part of environmental science projects at NASA. Keila is a sustainability professional with over 15 years of experience and passion for environmental and social sustainability.
Today on the podcast we have Keila Hand, who grew up in Brazil, close to nature, as her grandparents were farmers with land bordering the Rainforest. Keila experienced humble beginnings with a true farm to table lifestyle. She takes us back to life in Brazil and the curiosity it created within her, to expand her horizons past the farm. She was determined to find a way to achieve a high level of education and be the first in her family to speak english.
Keila takes us back to the turn of events that happened following up to her first job with Nasa at the age of 18, as part of their Earth Science research. This was the start of her mission to become bigger then where she was from and continue to grow her career and education. She developed a love for Environmental Science and went on to finish her Masters in both Business and Environmental Engineering. She talks about the process she went through to receive an exchange student scholarship, called Fulbright, that would give her the opportunity to move to the US and eventually make her way to Duke University.
Keila made a name for herself quickly, her career took her to notable companies from PepsiCO to the World Wildlife fund. She talks about how she was working within “sustainability” functions before it became what it is today. She was able to translate the company's environmental goals into actual operational actions. We ask Keila what her impression was of the oil and gas industry before she joined Quantum Energy Partners and her thoughts on how well the industry is doing in E-S-G.
We end on Keila’s exciting news as she is due in September with her first child. She tells us how she feels about becoming a mother later in life and the support her entire team has given her through this new transition.
Keila's story is the true American Dream, coming from a small farm town in Brazil to now the Managing Director and Head of the leading global provider of private capital to the energy industry - this is a must listen too!
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