Lina Lemessiou is Founder and Managing Director of NEWinsight™. She previously worked at EFRAG on European sustainability reporting initiatives, and has held senior roles in international accountancy networks and professional bodies. Her work focuses on sustainability reporting and assurance, governance, quality management, and professional capability development.

Teddie Buffolino is the Head of Communications, Marketing, and Brand and worked at PwC, where she spent nearly 13 years leading communications and change management for the 4,000+ US and Mexico partners. She also served as a trusted advisor to PwC’s senior leaders and managed various communications and marketing campaigns for the COO, CCO, CFO, CAO/General Counsel, and the Board of Partners and Principals. 

Before PwC, Teddie held several senior communications roles at Deloitte, supporting Global Integrated Market Offerings, Global Services, Global Innovation, and the Americas Region. Earlier in her career, Teddie led large-scale transformation projects for financial services and life sciences clients while at Deloitte, Stromberg, KPMG, and Arthur Andersen. 

She holds a Bachelor’s from Cornell University and a Master’s from Columbia University. 

Dan Worsley is responsible to lead the delivery and measurement of the Strategic Plan, working closely with our membership organizations, the Board, CEO and senior leadership team. He joins us from the Met Police where he was Chief Finance Officer. Dan is a Fellow at CIPFA, and has spent time as CIPFA’s COO, leading on business planning, commercial growth and corporate services. He has also spent time as an auditor and management consultant within the Big Four and a Senior Civil Servant in the UK. Dan also serves as a non-executive director within the NHS, and an independent member of GB Aquatics’ Audit Committee.

Atsushi Tomono is a Partner at KPMG AZSA LLC in Tokyo and brings more than twenty years of professional experience in auditing, including PCAOB audit engagements for major financial institutions. Within KPMG AZSA, Mr. Tomono leads a dedicated function that supports engagement teams in complying with independence requirements under the ethics code and contributes to strengthening the firm’s overall system of quality management.

In addition to his responsibilities at the firm, Mr. Tomono is a member of the JICPA Ethics standards Committee including its working group, where he is involved in responding to the consultations on ethics matters from JICPA members and activities related to the drafting of the Code of Ethics.

Mr. Tomono holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hitotsubashi University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Japan) and a CFA charterholder.