Kim Yapchai
Senior Vice President, Chief ESG Officer, Tenneco
Kim Yapchai is Senior Vice President, Chief ESG Officer at Tenneco, a $15 billion automotive component manufacturer with around 74,000 employees and locations in more than 20 countries. She is an experienced, global, C-suite leader with a substantial track record of dealing successfully with complex issues in multi-national, public companies. She identified the need for an ESG strategy at Tenneco and successfully led the team that designed the 2030 goals and roadmap. She is known for her business acumen and ability to design pragmatic solutions to achieve strategic results. In addition to ESG, she also manages Tenneco's Legal Operations and an award-winning Global Compliance Program. In 2021, Compliance Week Magazine honored Tenneco with the “Compliance Program of the Year.”