Sebastien Breteau

Sebastien Breteau is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at QIMA. He started his career in the Safran group (formerly Sagem) in Hong Kong, where he developed his experience with the Asian markets and supply chains. In 1997, he started his entrepreneurial career by being the first company to import Tamagotchi to France. He then created a company specializing in the design and export of promotional products and packaging, servicing large FMCG companies in Europe. The company expanded and opened offices in France, China, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Denmark and developed an internal need for quality control and supplier compliance. He decided to focus on this new activity and launch it as a separate business entity - AsiaInspection - selling his initial company in 2006. He is the founder of his own charity foundation, the Breteau Foundation, which aims to promote education in developing countries by providing digital education tools to underprivileged children worldwide. The Breteau Foundation operates in fifty schools in 7 countries (South Africa, Colombia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Myanmar). As of 2018, its programs have served to empowered over 500 teachers and almost 17,000 students. He is also an active investors and has invested in over 50 start-ups across all continents. He regularly appears in the global media as an expert on manufacturing and quality control in Asia and economic issues in China. He was cited by The Wall Street Journal and Forbes on the increase in demand for social audits in China.