Our Responsibility
Committed to Investing Responsibly
At TJC, we believe thoughtful consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors makes good business sense and offers us the opportunity to improve the overall performance and impact of our portfolio companies. We focus on building long-term value at the companies we own and consider their employees and communities among our key stakeholders.
ESG at TJC
We’re happy to share our annual ESG report publicly and we hope it offers insight into the hard work we are putting in to creating a world-class ESG program.
“Rather than looking for “ESG investments,” we look for businesses that have ESG opportunities and need our help to get better, or we find businesses with strong, untold ESG stories. This is central to our investment philosophy of looking for assets we can potentially enhance over time.”
Chairman and Chief Executive Partner
Our ESG Process
We seek to integrate ESG into each phase of our investment process. Our materiality-based approach helps us focus on the subset of ESG issues most relevant to the business models we see in prospective and existing investments.
Pre-Investment
Due Diligence
Investment Committee
Ownership
Monitoring
Value Creation
Exit
Disclosure
Lasting Impact
While TJC seeks to integrate certain ESG factors into its investment process and firm operations, there is no guarantee that TJC’s ESG strategy will be successfully implemented or that any investments or operations will have a positive ESG impact. Applying ESG factors to investment decisions involves qualitative and subjective decisions and there is no guarantee the criteria used by TJC to formulate decisions regarding ESG, or TJC’s judgment regarding the same, will be reflected in the beliefs or values of any particular client or investor. There are significant differences in interpretation of what constitutes positive ESG impact and those interpretations are rapidly changing. The description of ESG integration herein is provided to illustrate TJC’s intended approach to investing and firm operations.
TJC’s ESG Committee
The committee provides oversight and governance to our ESG initiatives. Our interdisciplinary committee members help drive implementation and provide feedback for enhancing our ESG platform. We include TJC team members from across several groups and experience levels to capture diverse ideas and perspectives on how ESG impacts, and can improve, our complete investment lifecycle.
“We strive for our team members, both at TJC and at our portfolio partners, to make ESG a part of the calculus in everyday decisions. We want to take advantage of the opportunity to make positive changes for our employees, our business partners, our communities, and others with whom we engage.”
Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of OMG
“We strive for our team members, both at TJC and at our portfolio partners, to make ESG a part of the calculus in everyday decisions. We want to take advantage of the opportunity to make positive changes for our employees, our business partners, our communities, and others with whom we engage.”
Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of OMG
Supporting Our Portfolio
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Workforce
Well-being & Safety
Climate Change
Cybersecurity
TJC’s DEI Committee
The DEI Committee spearheads DEI initiatives at TJC under the leadership of Eion Hu, a senior partner on TJC’s investment team. Representing various disciplines and staff levels at the Firm, the DEI Committee plays a key role in identifying strategies for engaging TJC employees on DEI training and education. As our Firm becomes more diverse, we seek to continuously move our culture forward to promote inclusivity and equitable opportunities for our teammates.
“Embracing DEI has made us a more talented, more creative, and much stronger team. We are all unique, which is key to our success.”
Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of Technology and Infrastructure
“Embracing DEI has made us a more talented, more creative, and much stronger team. We are all unique, which is key to our success.”
Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of Technology and Infrastructure
Industry partnerships
ESG
“One of the reasons why I love working on this topic at TJC is that we are aligned from the leadership of my firm all the way to down through our newest team members that ESG should be authentic, it should be tied to value creation, and that fundamentally these are the right things to do, and we care about working with people and companies that do the right thing.”
