Yann has helped many of the world’s largest organizations become more competitive through a better understanding and management of societal costs and risks. He does so not in lofty terms but rather with “down to earth” methods that express environmental and social issues in terms that business professionals in procurement, product development or sales can use every day.
Prior to Aligned Incentives, Yann was the founder and Managing Director of the Environmental Business Intelligence group at Enviance. This group was the fastest growing group in the company, doubling in size every year from launch to the company’s sale to Battery Ventures. Before that Yann’s work included co-founding a consulting firm with late management thinker C.K. Prahalad in the US and India, working as a McKinsey project leader in the US, Finland, Singapore and Australia, serving as a United Nations Director, working as a Volkswagen executive in Germany, China, Mexico and the US and serving in the French Foreign service (military service).
Yann graduated from Harvard Business School, with a focus on Business and the Environment. He lectures at UC Berkeley and other universities. He is half French, half Austrian, and grew up in the Congo where he spent a lot of time living for extended periods in remote villages doing documentaries on social and environmental issues. Yann lives with his wife and 2 boys in the San Francisco Bay Area.