osapiens launches its Executive Council of Global Business Leaders
New York, United States and Mannheim, Germany, September 21, 2026 - osapiens, the leading AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence, today announced the launch of its Executive Council. This group of senior global business leaders will provide strategic counsel to osapiens as the company accelerates its growth in new markets like the U.S., continues to launch new solutions like the AI Agent Factory and further expands the osapiens HUB across its solution suites enabling digital product passports and extending its supplier intelligence into an intelligence layer that makes procurement smarter, which means osapiens enriches procurement platforms with supplier intelligence, compliance evidence, risk monitoring, n-tier mapping, supplier performance information, carbon data, and regulatory coverage that none of them have natively.
“When we started osapiens, our ambition was to build one AI-driven platform that connects compliance, supply chain and product data the way modern enterprises actually operate. Having leaders of this caliber choose to help shape that next chapter tells us we’re building something the market genuinely needs.”
Alberto Zamora, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, osapiens
The council brings together current and former CEOs, board members and C-suite executives from the world's most recognized enterprises, spanning pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, automotive, logistics, medical devises, retail, fashion & apparel, chemicals and energy. Many have spent years running the exact functions osapiens' technology is built to serve and have lived first-hand the cost of fragmented, manual, point-solution approaches to compliance and supplier intelligence.
“With the osapiens Executive Council, we set out to invite the people we most wanted in the room as osapiens enters its next chapter. Every member of this council chose to be here because they believe in where the market is heading and in what osapiens is building to get companies there. As the market further consolidates around one clear category leader, they want to help build that future with us. Their experience running and transforming global enterprises will directly inform how we grow in new markets like the U.S. and where we take the osapiens HUB next and what agents we will accelerate on the AI Agent Factory.”
Stephan de Barse, CRO, osapiens
What convinced them to join is what they see in the osapiens HUB: a single AI platform that unifies supplier intelligence, product compliance, carbon accounting and traceability, as well as reporting & disclosures, where data can be collected once and reused across the initiatives to manage risk and become more resilient. In addition, the members are deeply impressed by the advanced underlying technology powering this platform, the osapiens HUB, that also enables an AI-powered CMMS solution for autonomous maintenance & repairs to more than 5.4M assets from hundreds of customers and a Last Mile Delivery Solution that some of the largest food & beverage companies rely on as execution layer for the last mile with more than 10M annual deliveries on the platform.
Meet the Executive Council
- Ann Tracy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
- Bart Derde, Executive Advisor and former Chief Supply Chain Officer, Haleon
- David Slump, Executive Board Member, Marelli, and former President & CEO, Marelli Holdings
- Dirk Holbach, Former Chief Supply Chain Officer, Henkel
- Feike Sijbesma, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Philips, and former CEO of Royal DSM
- Flávio Torres, Chief Operating Officer, Kraft Heinz
- Ian Plugge, Chief Executive Officer, NZA New Zealand Auckland
- Juan Carlos Fuenmayor, Chief Procurement Officer & President of Energy Services, Syensqo
- Marc Engel, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Maersk, and former Chief Supply Chain Officer, Unilever
- Michael Frey, CSCO and Member of the Executive Committee, Beiersdorf
- Nick Giannakakis, Chief Information Officer, Motor Oil
- Stefan Oschmann, Former CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, Merck KGaA
- Wouter Kolk, Former CEO, Ahold Delhaize EU and Non Executive Director, AkzoNobel
For the executives joining, the appeal is a genuine seat at the table as AI reshapes how global enterprises manage risk and compliance, and early, direct visibility into an AI-driven platform they believe is solving a problem the industry has struggled with for years. For osapiens, the value runs the other way too: unfiltered, executive-level judgment on what to build next, real-world pressure-testing of its roadmap against the realities of running global compliance, quality, supply chain and procurement, and credibility with the enterprises the company is built to serve.
“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.”
Ann Tracy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
“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.”
David Slump, Executive Board Member, Marelli, and former President & CEO, Marelli Holdings
“It is important to develop more insides in (climate)risk(management) as well as risk mitigation, like osapiens is doing. Many companies could benefit from this.”
Feike Sijbesma, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Philips, and former CEO of Royal DSM
“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.”
Marc Engel, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Maersk, and former Chief Supply Chain Officer, Unilever
Together, the council will advise osapiens on its expansion in new markets like the U.S., contribute an unfiltered, operator's view of the complex compliance and supply-chain pressures facing global corporations today, and help sharpen the company's product roadmap as it expands its growth of the osapiens HUB.
About osapiens
osapiens is an AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence that enables companies to manage risk and become more resilient. With osapiens’ solutions, companies can verify their products, know their suppliers, trace their goods, own their footprint, and report with confidence, all on a single AI platform.
The osapiens HUB, a multi-tenant platform designed to enable cross-company collaboration and AI automation, combines more than 25 solutions into seven product suites. These solutions enable companies to centrally manage and automate their supplier relationships, compliance requirements, and global supply chains, as well as optimize their maintenance, service, and distribution processes to improve operational performance and maximize global competitiveness.
Today, more than 2,500 customers worldwide entrust their most critical business processes to osapiens, from SMEs to global enterprises across industries. Headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, with offices across Europe and the United States, the company works with an international team of over 550 employees.
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