Arnaud Blandin

CEO, Vela Intelligence

With more than 20 years of global experience across Fortune 500 corporations, private equity funds, family offices, and high-growth ventures, he helps boards and executive teams move beyond ESG compliance to redesign how value is created, measured, and allocated.

His work sits at the intersection of strategy, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and capital allocation. He helps organizations connect impact data, financial performance, technology architecture, and executive decision-making into coherent systems that can guide transformation at scale.

Most companies today invest heavily in reporting frameworks, sustainability programs, and AI tools, yet these often remain disconnected from strategy, operations, incentives, and investment decisions. Arnaud’s work focuses on closing that gap. He builds practical decision architectures that allow leaders to understand where value is created, where impact is generated, where risks are emerging, and where capital should be deployed.

He began his career as an engineer in Silicon Valley, contributing to Java language standards and building enterprise systems for organizations including NASA. That technical foundation gives him a deep understanding of how data, software, and AI systems actually work — beyond the language of strategy decks. He later scaled technology and intelligence businesses across Asia, Europe, and North America, building the commercial and strategic experience that now underpins his advisory work.

Arnaud is today the CEO of Vela Intelligence, a platform that transforms complex documents and fragmented data into evidence-based insights, risk analysis and decision-ready intelligence for investors and executive teams.

Arnaud is also the founder of the Institute for Responsible Innovation and Sustainability (IRIS) and acting program director for the innovative program at CEDEP: Sustainable Value Creation that gathers every year executives and decision makers to build concrete action plans towards more sustainable value.

Arnaud teaches and mentors more than 500 executives annually through institutions and programs including INSEAD, Singapore Management University, SKEMA, EDHEC, IUM, and other global executive education platforms.

Based between Europe and Asia, he works with organizations that are ready to move beyond sustainability as a reporting exercise and use AI, data, and impact intelligence to redesign how value is created in the first place. Arnaud Blandin designs the operating systems that embed sustainability and AI into the financial core of companies.