Education
MBA, Columbia Business School
BA, Princeton University
Professional Biography
Byron is a strategic leader with over 15 years of experience in corporate sustainability, ESG, philanthropy, and global health equity. He has a proven ability to design and implement high-impact sustainability and social impact programs that help future-proof business strategy, strengthen stakeholder partnerships, and deliver measurable outcomes. He is skilled in designing and integrating sustainability strategies as well as designing and executing programs centered around community engagement, grantmaking, impact measurement, and executive communications.
Most recently, Byron ledcorporate responsibility and environmental, social and governance (ESG) management at Organon, a pharma company focused on the health of women. He was responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the company’s ESG and sustainability strategy while also overseeing global philanthropy and health equity.
Prior to Organon, Byron led ESG communications at Teva Pharmaceuticals, where he also had responsibility for the company's corporate social responsibility efforts in the United States and Canada while supporting the company's global health and access strategy around the world. Before joining Teva, Byron led the healthcare practice at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a global business network and consultancy focused on building the capacity of large companies to become more sustainable and socially responsible. At BSR, he advised over 25 companies in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industry on their ESG and sustainability strategies. Prior to BSR, Byron managed and developed global health partnerships at Johnson & Johnson, where he engaged a variety of stakeholders in the fields of NCDs, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and digital health.
Byron began his career in global health at an HIV/AIDS NGO based in South Africa called mothers2mothers International and later served as a management consultant at Rabin Martin in New York City.
Byron earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and his BA from Princeton University.