Frank Soetebeer | CTO, EcoVadis | Top 30 EMEA CTOs 2026

Career History

Frank Soetebeer has been Chief Technology Officer of EcoVadis since 2021, responsible for technology strategy, platform reliability and data architecture. Since taking on the role, he has driven a major revamp of its product and data platform and has transformed the engineering organisation into a high performing agile R&D organisation. He has driven the rollout and implementation of various innovation initiatives across the company including a standardized innovation framework.

Customer-facing initiatives include the Carbon Data Network to improve primary supplier emissions data for Scope 3 reporting, and the rollout of a CSRD Questionnaire tool to support companies with the EU’s new sustainability reporting directive amongst many other product and platform improvements. He has also led the adoption of AI and generative AI across EcoVadis’s products and internal processes.

Prior to joining EcoVadis, Soetebeer worked at Adobe for nearly two decades in senior engineering leadership roles. He holds an engineering degree in Technical Computer Science from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.

About EcoVadis

EcoVadis is a SaaS company that provides ESG risk assessment, sustainability ratings, and training tools to help companies evaluate and improve their environmental, social, and governance performance across global supply chains. Its platform has rated more than 150,000 companies across 250 industries and 185 countries.

In 2022, backed by investors including Astorg and General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero, it became one of the first sustainability- and ESG-ratings firms to achieve unicorn status with a valuation above $1bn. Since then, it has broadened its offering beyond sustainability ratings into areas including carbon management and human-rights due diligence, including through the acquisition of worker-voice platform Ulula in 2024.