Experienced leaders. Strategic perspective.

Executive Council

The osapiens Executive Council brings together senior business leaders across global organizations and industries. Their expertise provides strategic guidance as we help businesses navigate increasingly complex compliance and supply chain challenges to manage risk and become more resilient.

Experience from the world’s leading businesses

The world’s largest enterprises face growing compliance and supply chain demands.

The Council brings together current and former CEOs, board members, and C-suite executives from companies including Philips, Merck, Maersk, Colgate-Palmolive, Marelli, Kraft Heinz and more. With experience across compliance, global supply chain, and procurement, its members provide strategic council as we accelerate our growth in new markets like the U.S., continue to launch new solutions like the AI Agent Factory, and further expand the osapiens HUB across all solution suites.

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The Executive Council

In their own words

Perspectives from the council

These executives are joining the osapiens Executive Council to help shape how AI transforms compliance and supplier intelligence processes across global enterprises, while gaining early, direct visibility into a platform they believe is solving a long-standing industry challenge.

CSO, Colgate-Palmolive

Ann Tracy

"Organizations are being asked to navigate regulatory complexity, supply-chain volatility and growing expectations for transparency—all at the same time. What makes osapiens important is its ability to connect product, supplier, carbon and compliance data on one AI-powered platform, turning fragmented information into trusted insight and action. That can help companies move beyond reporting and reactive compliance toward greater resilience, smarter decisions and sustainability-driven value creation."

Exec Advisor, Former CSCO, Haleon

Bart Derde

"I am delighted to be part of the advisory board at osapiens. This truly is an industry leading tool that can help organisations manage resilience compliance to complex set of standards in sustainability and measure finally map and measure scope 3 effectively. It really will help organisations focus on what really matters….To drive SUSTAINABLE GROWTH.  Excited to be part of the journey."

Executive Board Member, Marelli

David Slump

"Today’s supply chain challenges require companies to know more than their direct suppliers, they must have intelligence deep into their supply chain to manage continuity and risk. I’m excited to see how osapiens platform provides a solution that leverages enterprise data starting with product compliance and passports through to scope 3 and risk assessments of the supply chain.  Teams don’t have time today to be switching between solutions; they need easy to use but sophisticated platforms that leverage AI to stay resilient."

Former CSCO, Henkel

Dirk Holbach

"The supply chain is where ESG either becomes real or remains rhetoric. We manage trillions in assets, employ millions, and touch every stakeholder from raw material to end consumer — yet most supply chain leaders operate largely blind on true ESG impact.

Recent research confirms what leading companies already know: Sustainability in action - powered by AI significantly increases firms resilience, value and returns. The competitive advantage is no longer discretionary — it's financial. Yet most competitors still treat ESG as compliance cost, not economic moat.

osapiens tackles this with holistic AI-powered visibility and increasing predictability. What excites me most isn't the technology itself, but what it enables: the ability to orchestrate truly sustainable and resilient value chains at scale. Having led large-scale FMCG operations myself, I know that transformation accelerates when you give teams the right data, the right incentives, and tools that make the right choice the easy choice. osapiens does exactly that.

This platform doesn't just measure responsibility. It operationalizes resilience and derives competitive advantage from it. That's what will redefine how supply chains compete globally."

Chairman Supervisory Board, Philips

Feike Sijbesma

"It is important to develop more insights in (climate)risk(management) as well as risk mitigation, like osapiens is doing. Many companies could benefit from this."

CEO, NZA New Zealand Auckland

Ian Plugge

"osapiens, through its leading technology stack, helps supply chain leaders sleep better at night as they know risks are actively being monitored and managed. And in an ever changing and more dynamic world, this is not a luxury but necessity."

CPO & Pres. of Energy Services, Syensqo

Juan Carlos Fuenmayor

"For procurement leaders, visibility across increasingly complex global supply chains has become a strategic necessity. osapiens brings together supplier intelligence, compliance and sustainability data in a way that enables organizations not only to manage risk, but to make faster and better business decisions."

Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Maersk

Marc Engel

"Enterprises today face a growing web of compliance obligations: CSRD, CSDDD, deforestation regulation, product passports, supply chain due diligence: each historically owned by a different team, running on a different spreadsheet, with no shared source of truth. osapiens brings that fragmented landscape onto a single platform, highly automated and AI enabled, so compliance becomes an integrated byproduct of how the business already runs rather than a separate, costly exercise.

The ROI shows up in three places: thousands of hours saved on manual data collection and reporting, reduced exposure to financial and reputational damage from non-compliance, and faster, more confident decisions because risk, resilience and sustainability data is finally visible in one place. 

Companies typically see compliance cycles that used to take months compressed into days, and audit-readiness that used to require a fire drill become continuous. Just as important, it turns a cost center of compliance into a competitive advantage: companies that can evidence transparent and traceable supply chains win business that others can't even bid for."

CSCO & Exec Committee Member, Beiersdorf

Michael Frey

"For a long time, transparency and sustainability were mainly about reporting and compliance. The opportunity now is to use transparency to make better decisions, strengthen resilience and improve business performance. Across sourcing and end-to-end supply chains, the real value is in connecting data to action – not only to identify risks earlier, but also to make better supplier choices, unlock efficiencies, improve agility and create new opportunities across the value chain.

Transparency creates value when it improves both the quality and speed of decisions.

That is what I find compelling about osapiens: moving beyond compliance and turning data into something that helps companies run better, respond faster and create sustainable value."

CIO, Motor Oil

Nick Giannakakis

"The next generation of enterprise technology will not simply help organizations record and report what has happened. It will use data and AI to understand context, anticipate what matters and help people act. I see osapiens building toward that kind of intelligent operating layer for the sustainable enterprise."

Former CEO, Merck

Stefan Oschmann

"osapiens reduces complexity for corporations in a highly efficient way and makes the multidimensional compliance world more easily navigable. [...] it contributes significantly to CEO sleep quality."

LEADERSHIP AT THE CORE

Guidance grounded in global business

The council provides sustained access to leaders who have led compliance, global supply chain, and procurement functions at some of the world’s largest organizations. Their expertise will help guide our expansion into new markets, including the U.S., provide an unfiltered operator’s perspective on the regulatory and supply-chain pressures facing global corporations, and inform the evolution of the osapiens HUB product roadmap as we continue to scale.