Summary
Omar Malik is a Managing Director and software-savvy ESG strategist with nine years of experience building data-driven sustainability and compliance solutions from the lab to the boardroom. He combines engineering chops from enterprise genomics and SaaS integrations with deep climate and environmental policy experience at NOAA, Yale, UNDP and NGOs to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical reporting systems. At Vertelligence he launched a practice and developed IP to accelerate climate disclosure analysis for emerging laws like California’s Climate Data and Climate Financial Risk Acts. Previously he drove data process improvements and assurance work at Activision Blizzard and modernized clinical platforms and AI/ML pipelines at GeneDx, cutting analysis time and cost. Based in San Diego, he bridges science, software, and stakeholder engagement and is quietly focused on making sustainability reporting auditable and software-first. An early entrepreneur and academic collaborator, he often brings interdisciplinary research methods into product workflows to solve tricky data quality and traceability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology, BA Biology at University of California, Berkeley
Master's Environmental Management, Master's Environmental Management at Yale School of the Environment
Spanish, French