Jeremy Schwartz

Jeremy Schwartz is Chairman of Kantar’s Sustainability Transformation Practice and noted by Forbes as one of the leading global sustainability consultancies. His beliefs that ESG can drive competitive advantage started back in 2005 when two initiatives that turned a 10 sales decline of the #2 UK supermarket Sainsburys PLC into 10 years growth adding €7bn of market cap in 24 months. Jeremy has a BSc in Metallurgy and a MSc in Production Engineering from Cambridge University with his first roles were in mining. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has major MD and CEO roles in Coca-Cola, L’Oréal and Pandora. Jeremy hosts the podcast Saving Tomorrow’s Planet speaking to these around the world taking action in ESG.

Turning Sustainability into Competitive Advantage

Jeremy brings a unique message that industrial companies from a broad range of sectors can leverage a focus on sustainability as a new engine of competitive advantage and profit. Rather than be just absorbed by regulatory obligations to audit and report or to investing in sustainable solutions but with results falling short of expectation, Jeremy will share three important aspects to drive profitable sales. The insights come both from the extensive global and Greek specific Kantar customer attitude and price elasticity data and Jeremy’s CEO view of the importance of his price-match-matching, Wrights law elasticity and zero-based-costing all combined with his total sales driver. As an expert speaker Jeremy has recently spoken to the leadership teams of Centrica UK energy, Wates construction, Cero solar, Fortum Nordic energy and Cemex and Malaysian power.