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The Footprint Firm team

We are seasoned management consultants with extensive experience from serving companies, government institutions, investors and foundations. Most of us also have hands-on experience as managers and executives. Some of us have built our own companies. Common for us all, we are dedicated to sustainability.

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We bring decades of advisory and investment experience, from guiding companies, governments, and investors to backing start-ups driving the green transition.

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Nicolas Yanze Kontchou

Nicolas Yanze Kontchou

Associate

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Nicolas has a background with sustainable start-ups and now has experience in management consulting at The Footprint Firm. His experience within sustainable management consulting ranges from CO2e inventory calculation, ESG-strategies, ESG vendor due diligence and ESG due diligence. Nicolas has assisted clients across industries, for full profit and non-profit organization.

Nicolas holds a Master’s in Strategy, Organization and Leadership at Copenhagen Business School with a minor in Circular Economy. Nicolas has a strong interest in the transition of linear business model into circular solutions and wrote his master’s thesis on barriers to circular start-ups and strategies to overcome the complexity of circular business models.

Nicolas has worked on several projects focusing on sustainable challenges including supporting on the business development of LØS market— Denmark’s first zero-waste supermarket concept alongside supporting his family’s permaculture coffee business. Additionally, he has been a part of the CBS Climate Club – an organization focused on building new partnerships, developing projects and promoting sustainability on campus.

Originally Nicolas is French, Swiss and Cameroonian. After finishing his high school in San Francisco he spent 1.5 years in the Swiss army and 5 years ago he decided to move to Copenhagen, where he completed his Bachelor in Service management (Service and Innovation) at Copenhagen Business School.