Empowering Supply Chain Success: Sedex Announces Strategic Expansion to Support Global Businesses
We’re delighted to announce the opening of a new European office in Madrid, increasing our European presence to better serve a market facing a complex, fast-evolving sustainability legislation landscape. We also welcome two new Executives to our leadership team, in the roles of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Growth Officer.
Sedex is expanding to meet the growing needs of businesses navigating a variety of due diligence and sustainability-related expectations amid challenging and constantly changing operational environments.
Today we announce the opening of our first office in continental Europe, in Madrid, and the appointment of two seasoned leaders to our Executive Team. These moves position us to better serve the European market, alongside our ongoing growth and solutions roadmap to support our customers around the world with the supply chain sustainability needs.
Expanding our European presence with a new Spain office
We’ve opened a new office in Madrid, Spain, with a local team operating in Spanish, German, Italian and French.
This represents our commitment to delivering increased support to European businesses, who face a growing number of regional laws with complex and resource-intensive requirements for supply chain sustainability and due diligence. These include the CSRD, the CSDDD and the recently passed EU Forced Labour Ban. Each of these require extensive ESG risk mapping, supplier assessment and monitoring activities, with potentially severe consequences for companies that fail to comply.
With this local base in mainland Europe, we’ll provide more tailored support to regional businesses – including consultancy services to build streamlined programmes tackling multiple sustainability-related requirements.
“We understand the value of a local partner when it comes to this intense combination of meeting compliance and sustainability goals while maintaining cost efficiency and operational resilience.
“Our Madrid office is a key part of Sedex providing the solutions European businesses need to successfully respond to the supply chain challenges, uncertainties and demands on the horizon.”
François Cadillon, Chief Growth Officer, Sedex
New leadership to drive our global expansion
We welcome Eileen Jackson to our leadership team as our Group Chief Financial Officer.
With nearly 30 years’ experience across finance, audit and technology sectors, Eileen is a seasoned leader in finance and legal transformation. She has a proven track record of supporting strategic growth through mergers, acquisitions and operational excellence, most recently at Quantios and Interserve.
“It’s a pleasure and privilege to join at this exciting time for Sedex. I’m delighted to offer my experience in aligning business objectives with customer impact and responsible growth to the company as we expand.”
Eileen Jackson, Chief Financial Officer, Sedex
We also welcome François Cadillon as our Chief Growth Officer to advance our international growth strategy. François joins us with an extensive background in scaling business-to-business SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) organisations, having held senior roles at SAP, Oracle and Workday.
Based in central Europe, François will lead our business development teams, focusing on expanding our presence in key markets and strengthening relationships with customers worldwide.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Eileen and François to our Executive Team. Their combined experience will be crucial in advancing our mission to help businesses navigate supply chain ESG risks, conduct due diligence and build resilience to satisfy a variety of interlocking stakeholder expectations.
“In this shifting and highly complicated landscape, the data-driven insights drawn through our scalable yet in-depth assessment, analysis and reporting tools are invaluable.”
Jon Hancock, Chief Executive Officer, Sedex
