Frank Soetebeer

FRANK SOETEBEER

Chief Technology Officer
EcoVadis
Enterprise SaaS ESG Ratings
2025 TOP 30 EMEA CTOs 2025

Career History

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. 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. Frank Soetebeer has been Chief Technology Officer since 2021, responsible for technology strategy, platform reliability and data architecture.

Since taking on the role, he has driven a major revamp of their Product and Data Platform and has transformed the engineering organisation into a high performing agile R&D organisation. He drove the rollout and implementation of various innovation initiatives across the company including a standardized innovation framework. Directly visible customer benefits from this were the launch of 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. In addition to this he drove the implementation of AI and GenAI as part of their products and company 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

Founded in Paris in 2007, EcoVadis has grown into a global leader in business sustainability ratings. The company employs more than 2,000 staff and has assessed over 150,000 companies worldwide in its network. EcoVadis’s services include sustainability risk ratings, ESG data & insights, e-learning, and tools to aid compliance with modern regulations and reporting frameworks.

In 2022 the company raised $500m in capital to drive growth and extend its product offerings beyond scorecards into proactive risk and labour-rights tools. Recent years have seen a surge (167% increase) in sustainability ratings usage among suppliers, and major brands such as Nestlé, Unilever and Johnson & Johnson use EcoVadis ratings to monitor supplier performance and manage sustainability in their operations.

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