Executive Management

Pierre-François Thaler – Co-Founder – Business Development: Pierre-François brings 13 years experience in purchasing activities and business development of innovative solutions for procurement organizations. He was previously CEO and co-founder of B2Build SA the first electronic procurement solution for the European construction industry. Prior to joining EcoVadis, he was a director of Ariba Procurement Outsourcing business. Pierre-François is an electrical engineer by trade, holding a Master of Science from Supelec and a MBA from Insead.

Frédéric Trinel – Co-Founder – Technology : Frédéric in an international Entrepreneur, founder of 4 companies, all in activity today, in Asia, Eastern Europe & UK operating in the Global Trade, Software & Human Resources area. The last venture of Frederic was Mr Ted Ltd, where he was COO in charge of Technology & Operations. MrTed is a leading provider of Talent Management Solutions, designed to help organizations of all sizes to optimize the processes of acquiring and deploying Talent on a local and worldwide scale.

Sylvain Guyoton – Vice President Services: Sylvain brings 5 years of experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and 8 years in Supply Chain. In 2002, Sylvain helped EUROSIF draft transparency guidelines for ethical retail funds (recently adopted by 40 financial institutions globally). In 2003, Sylvain joined VIGEO, the leading European social rating agency as head of research operations and overlooked the work of over 15 CSR analysts on hundreds of listed corporations. Prior to this, Sylvain spent 8 years mainly at KPMG reorganising Supply Chain operations of multinationals in North Americ and Asia. Engineer by training, Sylvain holds a MSc in Industrial Management from Cranfield University and a MBA from INSEAD.

Advisory Board

EcoVadis has assembled an international advisory board who is advising the management and will be involved in the validation of the methodologies used for supplier’s assessments process. The Advisory Board is composed of internationally recognized experts in (i) Corporate Social Responsibility (ii) Certification Services (iii) Environmental Science (iv) Supply Management.

Partners

The Global Reporting Initiative’s : GRI vision is that reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance by all organizations becomes as routine and comparable as financial reporting. GRI accomplishes this vision by developing, continually improving, and building capacity around the use of its Sustainability Reporting Framework. The GRI’s Reporting Framework is largely seen as the global de facto standard in sustainability reporting. EcoVadis is a GRI Organisational Stakeholder and as such helps steer GRI’s course