Our Commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Matters
We are committed to shaping the evolution of digital hospitality by aligning our products, resources, and employees to drive positive change and create a more sustainable future. We continuously strive to uphold our social responsibility to the communities where we live, work, and service, as well as reduce our impact on the environment. Our commitment to ESG led us to join Pledge 1%, whereby we pledged to donate 1% of our time, equity, and product to social responsibility initiatives. We also launched Olo for Good, which you can read more about in the “Community Involvement and Philanthropy” section below.
We believe that our platform positions us to meet the needs of, and benefit, not only the hospitality industry, but also the entire community ecosystem on which it depends: one composed of restaurant brands, partners, employees, and more. Our goal is to strengthen relationships via our technology and adapt to the evolving digital transformation underway in society.
Rising to these expectations means accounting for the impacts of our business operations on our stakeholders and greater society. Our employees play an instrumental role in advancing our progress and accountability in this domain. We are eager to advance ESG through sustainability, social impact, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (“DEIB”), enforced by strong corporate governance and ethics.
To formalize our commitment to ESG and identify our ESG priorities, we engaged an independent consultant to conduct our inaugural materiality assessment and develop our ESG framework, both of which we published on our ESG website in 2023 at www.olo.com/esg. We leveraged the results of the assessment to create our ESG strategy, inform future ESG-related disclosures, and guide the long-term sustainability of our business. We are committed to managing the risks and opportunities that arise from ESG issues and focusing on environmental stewardship and social impact throughout our value chain.
Key Areas of Focus for our ESG Strategy
Our nominating and corporate governance committee oversees ESG activities, programs, and public disclosures. The various committees of our board of directors, as well as our full board of directors, oversee ESG issues associated with their respective areas of responsibility. For example, oversight of a range of human capital management activities is the responsibility of our compensation committee, and oversight of our information technology risk and cybersecurity is the responsibility of our audit committee.
Our management team reports on general ESG matters to our nominating and corporate governance committee on a regular basis. We also intend to keep the public updated on our ESG efforts on our website and through our annual ESG report, the inaugural of which we published in 2023.
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of business conduct, ethics, and legal compliance. We characterize this commitment in a simple refrain: Use Good Judgment, Act with Integrity, Be Responsible. We expect all stakeholders to act ethically and honestly. This includes our employees, directors, officers, agents, partners, representatives, contractors, and consultants. We strive to ensure ethical compliance with legal requirements, and we work to embed our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics into our everyday activities and culture. Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, last approved by our board of directors in 2023, details all aspects and expectations for ethical business conduct. For more information, please refer to the above section titled “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance — Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.”
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
We are committed to maintaining a healthy, safe, and inclusive workplace for our employees and are taking steps to increase diversity and equity across our workforce. A diverse and motivated workforce is essential to our success, innovation, and competitive advantage.
In 2024, we updated our DEIB strategy to focus on four key pillars: building teams that are deeply engaged and invested in our mission and values, attracting high performing talent that reflects the diversity of our industry and the people we