2024-12-23
21 分钟Hello and welcome to the Bulletin with UBS on Monocle Radio.
Each week, the sharpest minds and freshest thinkers in finance take you beyond the numbers and hype right to the heart of the big issues of the day.
This week we have the latest in an ongoing series of special editions for you as we meet another of the inspirational thought leaders and innovators that UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries program.
This time it's the turn of Rafael Goulair, co founder and Chief Product Officer of Sweep, a carbon management and reduction software company that makes it easy for corporate and financial organizations to measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions.
Rafael, who counts a successful stint at Monocle's sister creative agency Wink amongst his previous experiences, called in at Monocle's HQ in Zurich to explain more about his work and objectives with Swee.
Rafael was also there to reflect on his involvement in the most recent UBS pitch for Purpose event where a group of global visionaries pitch their vision for positive social and environmental impact to an audience made up of UBS clients interested in impact topics, investors and startup ecosystem builders.
Joining Rafael in the Monocle Radio studios and always a welcome returning guest on this programme was Tom hall, global Head of Social Impact at ubs.
My colleague Chris Chermak was asking the questions and Chris began by asking global visionary Rafael to introduce himself.
I'm Rafael Guler.
I'm one of the three co founders of Sweep.
We are your sustainability data management platform.
So we help businesses track, disclose and act on their sustainability data and tell.
Us more about that or particularly first of all, perhaps what drew you to the issue that you are tackling in sustainability?
I think we're working on the biggest issue that humanity has ever faced, so it's easy to get excited about that.
As a founding team we have experience in building business intelligence tools.
So we've previously built a startup that was acquired by Zendesk, the Silicon Valley tech company.
That's their analytics engine today still.
And so we know how to work with large amounts of business data.
And so we were looking at how we can apply those skills to the climate crisis.
And yeah, I think we quickly figured out that this both a data and a network problem, right?