VIDEO: Kline Hill COO says firms must stick to their word on ESG

Lou Sciarretta talks with senior editor Toby Mitchenall about walking the ESG walk, the increasing need for liquidity, succession planning and more.

With LP liquidity needs on the rise, secondaries investor Kline Hill Partners is busy. Chief operating officer Lou Sciarretta says the firm is doing a deal a week. In this video with sister publication Private Funds CFO, Sciarretta talks about what increased regulatory scrutiny means for ESG policies – even for minority investors such as Kline Hill – as well as creating a culture of professional improvement as part of a firm’s succession planning strategy. “We need to be better mentors in this industry,” Sciarretta tells senior editor Toby Mitchenall.