Sarah Caulliez
Sarah Caulliez holds a Master of Business Administration degree from IAE Clermont Auvergne – School of Management in France and holds a degree from the Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She has more than 17 years’ experience in purchasing and the supply chain and is passionate about the construction of sustainable value chains. She began her career in 2006 as a consultant for SynerTrade, a global provider of e-Procurement software solutions, before joining SLB in the energy sector in 2011. In this context, she has successfully completed several missions, including support for the transformation of the organisation and purchasing processes, management of a strategic sourcing team and then management of a Procure to Pay and logistics shared service centre covering activities in Europe and Africa. Since 2022, she has been in charge of a global decarbonisation programme in the upstream value chain (Scope 3).
Benoît Legrand
Benoît Legrand holds a degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a degree in Economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He began his career in investment banking at Banque Bruxelles Lambert. After managing Private Banking and Marketing activities of ING in Poland, in 2007 he was appointed to the Executive Committee of ING Netherlands, playing an active role in the merger of ING Bank and Postbank. He became Chief Executive Officer of ING Direct France in 2010, then Chief Executive Officer of ING Bank France in 2013 and took over as Chairman in 2015.
In 2015, Benoît was appointed Global Head of FinTech and took responsibility for the €300 million venture capital fund (ING Ventures) and the global innovation activities of the ING Group as Chief Innovation Officer. In this context, he holds miscellaneous directorships in Luxembourg, Belgium and Spain. Benoît left ING in 2021. He currently supports companies in the areas of Innovation and Transformation, as well as helping managers to develop their leadership skills.
With a wealth of international experience, Benoît speaks five languages. Over the last 25 years, he has assumed Executive Management responsibilities in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Singapore.