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Rivian Hires Anisa Kamadoli Costa as First Chief Sustainability Officer
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rivian Automotive, Inc. (“Rivian”) today announced the hiring of Anisa Kamadoli Costa as the company’s Chief Sustainability
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[{"type":"text","content":" IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nRivian Automotive, Inc. (“Rivian”) today announced the hiring of Anisa Kamadoli Costa as the company’s Chief Sustainability Officer, effective April 18, 2022. Anisa most recently held the position of Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. and Chairman and President of the Tiffany & Co. Foundation. At Rivian, she will be responsible for the company’s sustainability roadmap for both the business and its products, and will help lead Forever, the foundation that Rivian established at its initial public offering with 1% of equity – 8.3 million shares. Anisa is the company’s first Chief Sustainability Officer and will report directly to Rivian’s Chief Executive Officer, RJ Scaringe.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220414005340/en/Anisa Kamadoli Costa (Photo: Business Wire)\nDuring her nearly two decades at Tiffany & Co., Anisa developed and led the company’s industry-leading, metrics-driven environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda, and strategically aligned the company’s philanthropy with its sustainability priorities centered on responsible mining, the oceans, and land conservation. Under Anisa’s leadership, Tiffany & Co. consistently earned top sustainability ratings and was ranked #4 on Barron’s “Most Sustainable Companies” list in 2020, when the company was publicly traded. Anisa holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, and completed Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development.\n\n\"We could not be more thrilled to welcome Anisa to our leadership team,” says Rivian Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe. “Across the organization, she will help us integrate environmental and social impact into our decisions. The sustainability strategies we set today will have lasting influence on our company and our world, and Anisa's mindset positions her extremely well to lead and drive these critical activities.\"\n\nRivian has committed to carbon neutrality by 2028 in its own operations – referred to as Scope 1 and 2 emissions by Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the world’s most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards – and by 2032 for Scope 3 categories along Rivian’s full value chain, from suppliers to owner vehicle chargi...