Antoine Rostand
French businessman
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Antoine Rostand (born 11 September 1962)[1] is a French businessman and the co-founder and president of the environmental intelligence company Kayrros.[2]
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Career
Rostand joined Schlumberger, an American oilfield services company, as a wireline field engineer in 1986.[3][4] He then went to INSEAD for one year, earning an MBA in 1989.[5]
In 1996, Rostand joined management consulting firm AT Kearney, which was then owned by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).[6] He rose to CEO of EDS France.[7]
In 2002, he returned to Schlumberger to oversee the integration of Schlumberger's acquisition of IT services company SEMA Group. Rostand founded Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC) in 2004 as a dedicated consulting division within Schlumberger, serving as its global managing director.[5][3][8][9]
In 2004, Rostand contributed to the book, "CEO: Chief European Officer – Business Leadership in Europe", edited by Robert Gogel.[10]
In 2011, Rostand led the launch and became a board member of the SBC Energy Institute, now known as AT Kearney Energy Transition Institute, a research group set up to advance knowledge of the technology needed to provide a safe, secure, and reliable energy mix during the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.[11][12]
In March 2016, Rostand returned to A. T. Kearney as a senior advisor and member of the firm's board of Global Energy Practice.[6] The same year, he co-founded Kayrros an environmental intelligence company that provides climate insights drawn from public and private satellites. Kayrros was co-founded with Antoine Halff, Laurent El Ghaoui, Alexandre D'Aspremont and Jean Michel Lasry.[13][14]
Rostand and his co-founder Jean-Michel Lasry were co-authors, along with Yves Achdou, Charles Bertucci, Pierre Louis Lions and Jose Scheinkman, to the 2020 academic paper, 'A class of short-term models for the oil industry addressing speculative storage'.[15]
In 2023, Rostand was named one of the Top 5 People in Artificial Intelligence Sustainability by Business Insider.[16]