Building a category leader: The art of staying focused to create an international-scale business
Presentation
Pierre-François Thaler
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, EcoVadis
Pierre-Francois is the co-founder of EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of Business Sustainability Ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains, used by 100,000 companies across 150 countries. He’s responsible for go-to-market, product strategy, and customer success globally. On a deeper level, he helps EcoVadis Fortune 2000 leverage their purchasing spend to drive improvements in business sustainability practices across global supply chains.
Pierre-François brings 25 years of experience in Procurement, Sustainability and Cloud Technologies. He was previously CEO of B2Build the 1st B2B marketplace for the European construction industry. Prior to founding EcoVadis, he was a director of Ariba (now SAP) Procurement BPO business in EMEA.
Pierre-Francois has been presenting on Sustainable Procurement in more than 100 conferences in Europe and USA and the author of multiple research studies on Sustainable Supply Chain with HEC Business School or INSEAD. He’s a member of the strategic advisory board of the Sustainable Procurement Leadership Council (Washington).
Pierre-François is an electrical engineer by trade, holding a Master of Sciencefrom Supelec and a MBA from Insead.
