Background
Sébastien Breteau was born in Bordeaux on September 5, 1971.
founder Chief Executive Officer
Sébastien Breteau was born in Bordeaux on September 5, 1971.
He attended Arts et Métiers ParisTech, a French Engineering school and graduated in 1992. He also attended the Higher Education Commission Business School in Paris and graduated in 1997.
He is also a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE) for China. Early career Sébastien Breteau started his career in the Safran group (ex-Sagem) in Hong Kong developing his experience in the Asian supply chain. Following his graduation from Higher Education Commission Paris in 1997 he founded SEBO in Hong Kong.
Specialized in the conception and export of promotional products and packaging for French industrial groups, SEBO has opened offices in France, China, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Denmark.
In 1997, he was the first to import tamagotchis from China to France. AsiaInspection In 2002, he founded AsiaInspection, a quality control service provider specialized in consumer goods for western Small and Medium Size Enterprises’s producing in China.
The company today has 1,000 employees offering product inspections, audits and lab testing services in 19 countries throughout Asia. In 2006, he sold SEBO and he focused on the development of AsiaInspection.
In 2011, he forged a joint venture between AsiaInspection and Silliker, a Mérieux NutriScience company, to perform food inspections in Asia.
In 2013, he founded the Breteau Foundation, which aims at promoting education for children in developing countries. The Foundation develops and curates education materials and tools for the highest number of grade 1 to 5 children in emerging countries. These contents are then localised and a distributed through local web platforms in classrooms.
Sébastien Breteau is a recognized expert in outsourced manufacturing and the quality control services industry ( · · · · · ).
The Wall Street Journal and Forbes quoted Sebastien Breteau on the increase in demand for social audits following the Rana Plaza and other tragic accidents which caused massive loss of life in the manufacturing industry in Asia during 2012 and 2013. Following the revelation in July 2014 that Shanghai based Husi Food Company was supplying major western food chains with expired meat products, he was interviewed by the Financial Times, Bloomberg and The Associated Press.
He has also discussed food safety in China with the New York Times and with Bloomberg"s Rishaad Salamat. French Foreign Trade Advisor in China.
Angel investor. Sponsor of the Louvre Museum and patron of the Opéra Garnier and Royal Opera House.