Your Trusted Partner for ESG-Related Governance Data Collection & Validation
Reliable governance data is often difficult to access, particularly regarding board structures, executive compensation, and ethics policies. Variations in reporting standards, limited access to critical information, and a lack of transparency in how companies disclose governance practices create significant gaps in the data available for analysis. Even AI data collection tools fail in this case, ultimately weakening the data foundation of ESG platforms, rating agencies, and investment firms.
SunTec India bridges this gap with governance metrics data collection services. With subject matter experts on board, we collect, validate, and standardize governance data from authoritative filings and trusted reports, ensuring framework-aligned, audit-ready metrics that organizations can integrate directly into their workflows or scoring models.
Secure ESG Social Data Management
Our robust security framework ensures confidential handling of sensitive workforce and supplier data while maintaining full compliance with international data protection standards.
GDPR & ISO-compliant data management
Encrypted data transmission (in transit and at rest)
Strict & restricted access controls & confidentiality protocols
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) signed with all resources
ESG-Oriented Governance Data Collection Services We Offer
We understand the complexity of governance data and strive to ensure that each dataset is not only thorough but also fully verified for consistency and trustworthiness. Whether you need qualitative information from policy documents or quantifiable metrics on board diversity and compensation, we provide data that supports your requirements.
Qualitative Governance Data Collection Service
We capture and organize text-based governance information from authoritative sources, including board charters, codes of ethics, anti-bribery and corruption policies, whistleblower protections, shareholder rights frameworks, and conflict-of-interest policies. These structured insights provide clients with a clear understanding of how companies maintain transparency, accountability, and ethical practices.
Quantitative Governance Data Collection Service
We collect measurable governance metrics, including board composition and diversity ratios, executive-to-employee pay ratios, committee attendance rates, shareholder voting data, and audit schedules. Data is standardized across companies and geographies, enabling reliable comparisons and benchmarking.
Governance Metric Calculation
Using globally recognized methodologies, we calculate key governance performance indicators, such as CEO pay ratio trends, board independence averages, attendance percentages, and compensation-performance alignment. These derived metrics provide deeper insight into governance effectiveness beyond what is directly disclosed.
Governance Data Validation & Verification
Our subject matter experts rigorously verify every dataset by cross-checking official filings, proxy statements, regulatory documents, and trusted databases. This process ensures consistency, accuracy, and audit-ready reliability, delivering governance datasets that clients can directly integrate into their assessment, compliance, or rating workflows as required.
Get Comprehensive Governance Metrics Coverage
We provide ESG rating agencies with a comprehensive range of data metrics necessary to evaluate companies’ overall corporate accountability.
Corporate Governance Data Metrics We Cover
We capture and validate a broad spectrum of governance metrics that reveal how organizations establish accountability, leadership oversight, and ethical safeguards.
Board Composition & Diversity
- Corporate Information: Company address, secretary roles
- Independent Directors: Proportion of non-executive, independent directors on the board
- Board Diversity: Gender, age, qualification, and skill-set diversity representation at the board level
- Leadership Tenure: Average duration of executive leadership and board member positions
Executive Compensation & Pay Practices
- CEO Pay Ratio: CEO-to-median employee compensation ratio
- Compensation Alignment: Correlation of executive pay with company performance metrics
- Incentive Structures: Share of variable vs. fixed compensation in executive pay packages
Shareholder Rights & Engagement
- Voting Data: Shareholder voting mechanisms and distribution
- Annual Meeting Attendance: Percentage of board members attending shareholder meetings
- Shareholder Resolutions: Disclosure of resolutions related to governance or ESG topics
Governance Risk & Compliance
- Audit Committee Oversight: Frequency of committee meetings and attendance
- Regulatory Fines: Governance-related penalties, fines, or enforcement actions
- Whistleblower Cases: Number of reported and resolved governance-related whistleblower incidents
Corporate Governance Data Policies We Cover
We capture and validate governance data from prominent policies, demonstrating how organizations formalize ethical conduct and leadership responsibilities.
Business Ethics & Integrity
- Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy: Commitment to preventing bribery, facilitation payments, and corruption
- Conflict of Interest Policy: Rules for disclosure and management of conflicts of interest
- Political Contributions & Lobbying: Policies governing donations, lobbying practices, and transparency
Stakeholder & Supplier Governance
- Supplier Governance Standards: Policies requiring suppliers to follow governance and ethical guidelines
- Third-Party Due Diligence: Risk assessments for partners, contractors, and intermediaries
- Code of Conduct: Formal commitments for employees, executives, and suppliers on ethical practices
Corporate Governance Structure
- Board Charter & Roles: Documentation outlining the role/responsibilities of the board and committees
- Risk Management Policy: Processes for identifying, assessing, and mitigating governance risks
- Internal Control Systems: Frameworks ensuring financial transparency and operational accountability
Executive Accountability
- Compensation Governance Policy: Rules for executive remuneration, bonuses, and incentive caps
- Succession Planning: Policies for leadership continuity and transition readiness
- Performance Evaluation Framework: Guidelines for assessing executive and board effectiveness
ESG Data Collection across Social Policies
We also collect and classify formal social policies that demonstrate a company’s commitments to human rights, labor protections, diversity, health and safety, and customer responsibility. Extracted directly from sustainability reports, regulatory filings, and other official disclosures, each policy datapoint is validated, source-linked, and structured to provide clients with clear visibility into organizational social responsibility data.
Society & Human Rights
- Policy Human Rights: Formal commitments to upholding human rights across operations
- Policy Human Rights Due Diligence: Processes for identifying and addressing human rights risks
- Whistleblower Protection: Mechanisms protecting employees who report misconduct
- Policy Grievance Process: A Structured framework for handling employee or stakeholder grievances
Human Rights & Ethical Principles for Suppliers
- Human Rights Contractor: Requirements for contractors to adhere to human rights principles
- Supply Chain Health and Safety: Standards ensuring worker safety in the supply chain
- Career Development: Policies promoting upskilling and growth opportunities for workers
- Day Care Services: Employer-provided childcare or dependent-care facilities
Health & Safety for Employees
- Policy Employee Health & Safety: Formalized commitments to employee health and safety standards
- Freedom of Association Policy: Protection of workers’ rights to form associations and unions
Diversity
- Targets Diversity and Opportunity: Organizational goals for inclusion and equitable opportunity across the workforce
Labor Rights
- Policy Child & Forced Labor: Explicit prohibition of child and forced labor practices
Product Responsibility
- Quality Management System: Implementation of policies ensuring product quality and safety
Customer Experience
- Policy Data Privacy: The Company’s formal measures to safeguard customer data and privacy rights
Governance Data Alignment with Global ESG Reporting Standards
All governance metrics we collect are mapped to leading ESG frameworks, which makes the resulting datasets verifiable, consistent, and readily usable by ESG platforms.
Core Frameworks for Governance Data Collection
Additional Compliance Standards
Beyond core governance frameworks, these standards guide ESG disclosures and investor due diligence:
- TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
- SEC Climate Disclosure Rule (U.S.)
- Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS)
- IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)
- BRSR (Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting, India)
- CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
How We Deliver Your Data
Format Options
JSON, CSV, XML, or direct API integration into your systems
Delivery Frequency
Quarterly refreshes, annual updates, or real-time event-driven data feeds
Global Coverage
Governance data collection across industries, company sizes, and geographies
Assurance
Encrypted cloud delivery with full audit trails, ensuring defensibility in reporting and compliance
Expert-Led Governance Data Collection Process
Data collection for corporate governance can get complex due to the diversity of reporting formats, partial disclosures, outdated documents, conflicting information, and frequently changing reporting standards, which often result in inconsistent datasets. To overcome these challenges, we follow a structured, expert-driven methodology, tailored to the unique needs of each client to capture, validate, and standardize corporate governance metrics with precision.
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Targeted Governance Data Acquisition
We source comprehensive governance information, combining numeric metrics with qualitative policy insights, to provide a complete picture of a company’s leadership, board practices, and compliance structures.
Key Sources Include:
- Proxy statements, annual reports, and board disclosures
- Regulatory filings (SEC, regional corporate compliance submissions)
- Corporate ethics codes, anti-bribery policies, and whistleblower frameworks
- Shareholder voting records and secretary filings
- Third-party governance databases (Bloomberg ESG, Refinitiv, ISS Governance)
- Global governance standards and NGO reports (OECD, UNGC, Transparency International)
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Multi-Source Cross-Validation
Each governance datapoint is verified across multiple authoritative sources to confirm accuracy and remove inconsistencies. This ensures that the dataset reflects only evidence-backed, verifiable information.
Validation Measures Include:
- Matching executive compensation disclosures with official financial statements
- Confirming board composition and diversity data against regulator databases
- Cross-checking shareholder voting outcomes with company filings and exchange records
- Validating anti-corruption and compliance claims against enforcement databases
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SME-Led Governance Data Validation
Our governance specialists assess corporate leadership, policies, and board practices, providing context-rich validation that supports informed ESG assessments.
Expert Checks Include:
- Ethical and compliance policy validation
- Board composition and independence benchmarking
- Executive pay alignment with performance
- Evaluation of risk management and internal controls
- Identification of governance risks across operations and supply chains
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Data Normalization & Standardization
We standardize governance metrics to ensure consistency and comparability across companies and markets.
Standardization Examples:
- Executive pay expressed relative to the median employee salary
- Board independence is calculated as a percentage of independent directors
- Committee activity normalized by attendance and responsibilities
- Political contributions categorized by amount, recipient, and region
- Policies classified by type (ethics, anti-bribery, whistleblower, etc.)
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Governance Framework Alignment
Every dataset is mapped to global ESG frameworks, allowing clients to integrate data directly into their compliance or assessment workflows.
Framework Mapping Includes:
- CSRD / ESRS: governance, board structure, remuneration
- GRI 400: anti-corruption, ethical conduct, compliance
- SASB: sector-specific governance and risk disclosures
- OECD Principles: shareholder rights, board accountability
- UN Global Compact: ethical conduct, anti-bribery, anti-corruption
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Audit-Ready Data Delivery
We deliver fully verified, framework-aligned governance datasets, ready for direct use in ESG platforms, rating models, and investor evaluations.
Delivery Features:
- Complete audit trails with source documentation
- Metric metadata, including definitions, calculations, and sources
- Framework-tagged datasets for immediate compliance readiness
- Flexible delivery options: dashboards, CSV, and API integration
Example Workflow of Governance Data Collection
| Governance Data Metric | Collection | Validation | SME Review | Mapping | Delivery |
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| Board Composition & Diversity | Proxy statements, governance filings | Verified with regulatory databases | SME benchmarks against industry norms | CSRD G1, GRI 405 | Audit-ready % ratios in CSV/API |
| Executive Compensation | Annual reports, remuneration disclosures | Cross-checked with payroll/financial filings | SME reviews pay-to-performance link | CSRD G1, SASB | Compensation ratios with metadata |
| Shareholder Rights & Voting | Proxy records, company filings | Verified with the secretary/voting data | SME assesses shareholder protection | OECD, CSRD | Voting results datasets with audit trail |
| Anti-Corruption & Ethics Policies | Codes of conduct, compliance reports | Verified with enforcement databases | SME validates against global standards | UNGC, GRI 205 | Policy datasets tagged & categorized |
| Internal Control & Risk Management | Risk reports, compliance filings | Checked against regulatory frameworks | SME assesses risk mitigation strength | CSRD G1, SASB | Risk framework dashboards & datasets |
Ensuring Secure Management of Your ESG Data
We embed confidentiality and security at every step to ensure datasets remain protected.
Governance Data Collection across Diverse Industries
Governance expectations differ by sector, from board composition in finance to anti-corruption measures in manufacturing. Our governance data collection services focus on sourcing, validating, and standardizing sector-specific governance metrics, providing organizations and ESG platforms with access to reliable, framework-mapped datasets that can be directly utilized for reporting, benchmarking, ratings, or compliance evaluations.
Why Choose Us for Corporate Governance Data Collection
SunTec India brings over two decades of outsourced data operations expertise to deliver structured, framework-aligned governance datasets. We have earned the confidence of over 8,530 global clients and received recognition from industry leaders like Gartner and Clutch. Our expertise makes us a trusted partner for ESG data platforms, rating agencies, and sustainability-driven enterprises in their data collection and validation processes.
Featured Among Top Data Validation & Enrichment Vendors
Among the Top 10% Service Providers on Clutch
Supporting Multilingual Data Collection with 99.95% Accuracy
Among the top 500 global outsourcing providers
Recognized as the Global Leader for Data Services
Get Reliable Governance Datasets Backed by Expert Validation
Tell us your data requirements, and we’ll deliver framework-mapped, audit-ready governance metrics you can trust.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. How do you ensure accuracy during data collection for corporate governance metrics?
Accuracy is ensured through a combination of data validation by subject matter experts, cross-referencing data across multiple sources, and a multi-step quality control workflow. Beyond simply extracting data, we also flag discrepancies and provide source attribution, enabling clients to trust every metric they use.
2. How long does governance data collection take for a typical company?
The timeline for governance data collection varies depending on the volume, complexity, and specific metrics required. Typically, the process involves validating and aligning the data with relevant governance frameworks, so the timeline will depend on the data available and the level of detail required. You can get an estimated timeline by sharing the scope of work at info@suntecindia.com.
3. Can you collect governance data for private companies and subsidiaries?
Absolutely. We gather governance metrics from private entities using publicly available documentation, including internal policies, ownership structures, management reports, and regulatory submissions where applicable.
4. How do you handle conflicting information across different governance data sources?
We prioritize official regulatory filings as the most reliable source, then cross-reference with multiple authoritative databases and corporate disclosures. Any conflicts are flagged for client review, with detailed source attribution provided for transparency.
5. Can you provide custom data for specific governance KPIs?
Absolutely. Many clients require sector-specific or KPI-specific governance datasets (for example, “board independence ratios, CEO pay ratios, and audit committee attendance” for a financial services firm). We can deliver such hyper-customized datasets aligned to your requirements (KPIs, sector, compliance) and in the format you need, without excess noise.
