Sunil (Sunny) A. Misser is the Chief Executive Officer of AccountAbility.
Prior to joining AccountAbility, Mr. Misser was the Global Managing Partner of the Sustainability Advisory Business at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Before that, he was Global Strategy Leader for PwC’s Assurance and Business Advisory Services — the firm’s accounting, risk management, and consulting operation. He also served as the New York Metro leader for the Governance, Risk, and Compliance practice. During his career, Mr. Misser has been a strategic business advisor to CEO’s, Boards, and senior executives at Fortune 500 companies and multi-lateral organizations (MLOs).
Mr. Misser has extensive experience working with global clients, developing and implementing solutions in the areas of strategy, structure, process, people, and systems; improving the efficiency and effectiveness of global value chains; designing and implementing enterprise-wide performance improvement solutions; and managing complex business transformations. His clients have included: Abbott Laboratories, Merck, Pfizer, Bayer, Nestle, Anheuser Busch, UBS, Citigroup, ING, National Commercial Bank (NCB), Saudi Investment Bank, Credit Suisse, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, ConocoPhillips, Cinergy Duke, Saudi Aramco, Kodak, Seagram, Microsoft, Mobily, Walmart, Zain, National Institute of Standards and Technology, King Khalid Foundation, World Economic Forum, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the United Nations.
Previously, Mr. Misser worked in industry, in operations and advanced manufacturing, with Mars, Inc. and Honeywell. He holds a Master of Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management (Sloan Fellows Program), with a concentration in International Business and Technology. He also has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from M.S. University.
Mr. Misser serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of Lehigh University’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. Mr. Misser served on the advisory board of E-Business @ MIT and the advisory board for Innovation and Corporate Responsibility at MIT/Sloan. In addition, he has served as an advisor on the strategy and consulting track at the MIT/Sloan School of Management. Mr. Misser also served on the advisory board of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University.
During his career at PwC, Mr. Misser led a team that published a book: Corporate Responsibility – Strategy, Management, and Value. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is often quoted in media such as Fortune, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, New York Stock Exchange Quarterly, Forbes, Dow Jones Interactive, Capital Finance International (CFI.co), Global Finance, and Internal Auditor’s Magazine.
Mr. Misser was honored as the 2017 Distinguished Alumni for Excellence in Industry by Lehigh University, ISE. He was appointed, in 2020, to serve on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Lehigh University.