Raphaël Felenbok is an independent advisor and board member working along AgriFood value chains from commodity sourcing to specialty selling. He advises on strategic as well as operational issues and engages in high-impact projects enabled by Sustainability and Technology.

His client portfolio includes corporates (e.g. Dammann Frères, Mars Wrigley), consultants (e.g. Bain & Company, South Pole), investors (e.g. aDryada/Ardian, PAI Partners) and innovative solution providers (e.g. Elucid Social, Space4Good).

For two decades, Raphaël worked end-to-end along tropical/smallholder value chains and extensively traveled in the developing world where he was exposed to the realities and complexities of Food Systems (specifically in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Brazil, and Indonesia). He regularly shares his expertise on public platforms and for instance appeared at the World Economic Forum, in The Economist and on Swiss national television.

Raphaël is a former Managing Director at Barry Callebaut - global B2B cocoa & chocolate leader - and holds an AgriFood Engineering Master from ISARA and McGill University as well as an MBA from INSEAD. French/Swiss national, he is from Paris and now lives in Zürich with his wife and their two sons.