Carlos Andrade will be a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumnus very soon. He started the program in September 2020. At the time, he was Project Manager for Alstom Bombardier. During the program, he became the Director for Procurement and Supply Chain at Letenda an innovative manufacturer of city buses zero-emissions.
This important career change is related to his EMBA experience, and to one module, in particular:
“The Sustainability Mindset Module had a profound impact on me. For most of my career, I had been focused on profit-maximizing and cost-cutting initiatives, and the ESG topics had always been an afterthought. However, right in the middle of the pandemic, the Sustainability Mindset shed light on so many different perspectives and global trends, and added very practical frameworks to integrate compassion, respect, community focus and respect to our environment as key decision-making elements – whether in business or personal life.
Ever since I completed the module I made the decision to leave “Large-Corporate INC” where I had spent the last 22 years. I joined Letenda, a very young and ambitious company, founded on the vision of reinventing public transportation by manufacturing a brand-new electric bus. The company is based on sound values of collaboration, innovation and sustainability which are palpable in everything we do. I could not be prouder to have joined this mission, which gives me a sense of purpose I had been missing.”
In March 2022, Letenda, a Montreal-area start-up unveiled its new electric bus, called Electrip: a new ultralight, zero-emission, all-electric bus designed from scratch for better user experience and adapted for winter conditions.
