, Edhec Master 2000 (Insitaction) et Jean-Marc Lazard, Edhec Master 1995 (OpenDataSoft) reçoivent le prix EDHEC Entrepreneurs de l'année

The EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 award went to Maxime Legardez, CEO of Everoad

Thursday, June the 14th 2018, EDHEC Rendez-Vous Paris - Atelier des Lumières

Maxime Legardez graduated from EDHEC Business School in 2011 with a Masters in Management and an MSc in Corporate Finance. During internships working on investment funds at Turenne Capital and in the Lagardère group’s Department of Strategy, he developed a passion for start-up entrepreneurship and digital technologies.

He then spent several years abroad where he helped create several companies: first in Germany, where he developed Tirendo (online marketplace for the sale of tyres, subsequently purchased for €45m), and later in Asia, where he set up GroupGlasses (an e-commerce website for glasses and sunglasses). He later joined the German firm Rocket Internet, managing foodpanda first in Russia and then Brazil, before setting up Vaniday, a booking platform for beauty care which he launched in Brazil, Milan, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and elsewhere. 

Upon his return to France in 2016, he (finally) launched his own firm! Convargo, later renamed Everoad, opened for business in June 2016 following an initial fundraising campaign that generated €2 million; 12 months later, a further €16 million were raised and the company now has a team of 50 passionate people determined to revolutionise goods transportation by road.

Everoad is a tech start-up that is enjoying strong growth and revolutionising the road haulage sector by bringing together senders and transporters in real time. This is a key sector in the economy – worth €42 billion in France and €300 billion in Europe – but is highly fragmented. Technology and digitalisation are creating a new playing field!

To find out more: https://www.everoad.com/

About the EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year award

The EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year prize is awarded to an EDHEC entrepreneur who has decided to take a leap into the unknown and has contributed to EDHEC’s image as a creator of talent by their taste for risk and adventure.
Their daring and sense of innovation will have impacted on the winner’s sector or region, or on the vision others have of the sector. .

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