Executive Profile
Rouzbeh Amini is Global VP for Sustainability Performance and Digital Transformation at dsm-firmenich. He leads the data, digital and AI capabilities that connect sustainability performance to business decision-making and audit-ready reporting.
He has held senior operating and advisory roles across dsm-firmenich, EY, Cognizant and Universal Electronics. His experience combines enterprise transformation, commercial leadership, product and platform delivery, and technology governance.
His industry experience spans manufacturing, consumer electronics, chemicals, food and agriculture, and logistics. Alongside his executive role, he contributes to industry governance as a WBCSD iPSPA Steering Committee member.
Current remit
What Organisations Call On Him For
Board-Relevant Experience
Relevant to audit and risk committees facing CSRD assurance obligations, and to organisations where AI governance, technology investment and enterprise data risk are live strategic issues.
Technology and AI investment governance
Evaluates the investment case, data foundation, delivery risk and route to value.
Data, reporting and assurance
Assesses the integrity of non-financial reporting and the controls behind audit-ready sustainability data.
Transformation portfolio oversight
Reviews value, capital allocation, risk exposure, execution capability and stop/go decisions.
Current enterprise operator · Former EY Equity Partner
Available for a first supervisory board or advisory role, bringing current operating experience in AI governance and sustainability assurance.
Governance and industry bodies
Track Record
Delivery in the current role, and prior leadership across technology consulting, product innovation and enterprise transformation.
Current role
dsm-firmenich
Global VP, Sustainability Performance & Digital Transformation · 2025 - present
- Sustainability digital platform and its 25 FTE team built from scratch
- Three-year sustainability digital-transformation roadmap designed, with the investment case approved by the board's sustainability committee
- 6 use cases delivered to production in under a year
- Sustainability customer service established at Group level
Prior roles
EY
Equity Partner · 2023 - 2025
- ~70 FTE pan-European presales, solution design and delivery capability built
- EUR 7M innovation investment managed over two years
- Directed the Data & Technology Centre of Excellence
Cognizant
Industry X.0, then Sustainability Technology · 2018 - 2023
- 40+ global accounts across technology presales and client relationships
- 37 FTE practice founded and scaled, onshore and offshore
Universal Electronics
Technology & Innovation · 2013 - 2018
- 20+ products taken to mass production
- 21 EU accounts, 15+ tenders and RFPs won
Selected client engagements
Three-year CIO advisory on data strategy and roadmap for supply chain, trading and finance.
Three-year, EUR 20M digital-transformation strategy and roadmap.
CDO advisory for 25 digital-factory roadmaps with global deployment scope.
Business-data strategy to improve vessel-operating profitability.
Smart-factory solutions for workforce operations excellence.
IoT platform at scale enabling a Coffee-as-a-Service business.
Employers, clients and governance bodies are listed separately.
Career Snapshot
Current role and the three leadership positions before it. The full chronology is in the CV (PDF).
Earlier career, education and research
Earlier career
Education
Research and recognition
Selected Writing
Some carry his byline, some were published under a firm's brand voice and built on his analysis. The tags say which is which.
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Speaking
Selected keynotes, panels and roundtables completed in 2025 and 2026, on data, AI and sustainability performance.
Fifteen whitepapers, webinars and conference sessions since 2019.
Contact
For board and executive opportunities, advisory conversations, and selected speaking engagements.