Demystifying sustainability:new levers of value creation

Arnaud Blandin is an affiliate professor at SKEMA Executive Education. He is the co-founder of the BEYOND ecosystem whose mission is to simplify the topics concerning social and environmental impacts by incorporating them at the heart of business models of companies. He supports Private Equity and VCs investors, multinationals as well as banking and institutional players.

He has developed expertise in matters of impact, impact measurement, especially carbon footprints and life cycle assessments, ESG, business model transition, and various regulations (SFDR, CSRD, SASB, ISSB).

His approach based on data and concrete cases allows him to mobilize a network of dozens of entrepreneurs, scientists/researchers, and executives all over the world.

Arnaud started his career in Silicon Valley in a Business Process Management company that experienced significant growth between 2000 and 2010 before joining an investment firm Singapore, leading investments in Southeast Asia and China.

Arnaud is also the founder of Pufferfish Partners, which developed the Asian establishment of several Silicon Valley companies as well as European ones, a firm that he left in 2023 and that worked with governmental institutions from Singapore, France, the US, and the UK.

Arnaud is a speaker and professor at several institutions such as INSEAD where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence, HEC, CEDEP, and IUM. He has educated more than 500 leaders and executives in the year 2023 alone. Arnaud has an engineering background (ENSEEIHT) and followed an additional curriculum (TGM) at INSEAD.