In early 2023, a mid-sized engineering firm in Singapore encountered an unexpected challenge. After years of excelling in its core operations, it was now expected to produce its first ESG report. With no prior experience in environmental or social disclosures, the firm’s leadership knew that getting it wrong could impact its credibility and partnerships. What followed was not just the creation of a report, but a guided transformation. With support from Rimm Sustainability, the firm navigated unfamiliar terrain, developed its ESG assessment from scratch, and ultimately received an industry award for transparency.
Founded in 2020, Rimm Sustainability is an ESG and sustainability intelligence provider that blends regulatory expertise, technology, and practical insights to make sustainability actionable. The company’s original focus on supporting SMEs has evolved into a broader mandate, serving both mid-sized businesses and global enterprises through modular digital tools and customized frameworks. “Our goal is to give firms a structured way to measure ESG value, reduce risk, and capture opportunity, so sustainability becomes not a sideline conversation, but a driver of strategy”, says Ravi Chidambaram, CEO, Rimm Sustainability. Across Asia and beyond, it enables firms to operationalize ESG for compliance and financial and reputational outcomes.
Designing for Relevance
At the center of Rimm’s offering is myCSO, its flagship sustainability platform that delivers reporting, benchmarking, and planning tools in one integrated environment. The platform is designed to make ESG execution manageable and measurable for clients navigating complex expectations from regulators, investors, and global supply chains.
Furthermore, the company has deliberately expanded its solutions to address real and emerging pain points. TruView, for example, analyzes media sentiment on ESG topics, giving firms real-time visibility into how their ESG posture is perceived across stakeholders. TR360, short for Transition Risk 360, assesses a company’s exposure to transition risk as the market moves towards a low-carbon economy along specific pathways, using a scenario-based approach.
This solution is particularly relevant to insurers and financial institutions that must forecast exposure to climate-related financial risks.
Most recently, Rimm Sustainability launched its Impact Measurement and Monetization framework. Built by its sustainability team, this service helps firms measure and track positive environmental and social outcomes, and use these to gain tangible business benefits such as green financing or improved supplier terms. The company’s focus here is to unlock economic value from positive sustainability performance, a capability that aligns with growing investor pressure to quantify returns on ESG.
Credibility and Cross-Border Expertise
The ability to flex between technical precision and consultative engagement stems from Rimm’s structure and leadership. With an in-house sustainability team and a CEO who is widely recognized as a thought leader in sustainable finance across Asia, it ensures that its insights are current and influence the wider discourse. Ravi actively shapes conversations on ESG investing, corporate governance, and regulatory trends. His involvement in platforms such as the Wealth Management Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy ensures that the company’s market relevance extends beyond clients to policymakers and educators.
To remain attuned to evolving ESG standards, it prioritizes internal knowledge-sharing and external collaboration. Team members regularly attend industry events, interact with financial institutions, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies. These exchanges allow the company to adapt its product roadmap in real time, ensuring that clients benefit from a solution set that is informed by market momentum.
Scaling Insight with Integrity
The launch of myCSO, the opening of offices in Tokyo and London, and the expansion of its ESG data repository to over 20,000 firms demonstrate a scale of ambition that is supported by substance. Recognition has followed: Rimm Sustainability was named an ESG FinTech100 company globally, featured among the UK’s Top 100 Sustainability Innovators by King Charles, and most recently, awarded at the Global Tech and AI Awards.
The ability to flex between technical precision and consultative engagement stems from Rimm Sustainability's structure and leadership
While the accolades matter, the company’s trajectory is ultimately defined by how well it can continue making ESG easier and more actionable. The company describes itself as a digital enabler, a role it fulfills through technology, its sensitivity to business context, and its willingness to co-create solutions. As new regulatory standards emerge, as capital becomes more attuned to ESG signals, and as companies seek to embed sustainability into operations rather than silo it in reporting, Rimm Sustainability is building the digital and advisory infrastructure to support them.
Ravi Chidambaram, CEO, Rimm Sustainability
A thought leader of sustainable finance in Asia, Ravi brings over 25 years of global finance and tech experience, including senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Bear Stearns. He is an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at Yale‑NUS College, where he teaches his acclaimed course ‘The Good Company’, and leads executive seminars at the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore. Ravi holds a BA summa cum laude from Duke University, an MBA/ MA from Wharton and Penn, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.
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