Laurent Adamowicz

Laurent Adamowicz
Born	Paris, France
Education	ESCP Europe, Wharton School, Columbia University, Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Founder and former President, EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation, Inc.

Laurent Adamowicz is a French businessman, entrepreneur, lecturer, author, and public health advocate. He is the founder and was president of the public charity EChO – Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation and a member of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nutrition Round Table.^[1]

Education

Adamowicz graduated with a B.A. from ESCP Europe and subsequently obtained an MBA from the Wharton School.

Career

Adamowicz was a co-founder of Global Commerce Technology Company (GC Tech SA), a technology company that introduced the first micro-payments system on the Internet in 1995.^[2][3][4]

He organized the buyout of Fauchon in January 1998.^[5][6][7]

Since 2005, Adamowicz has been a senior lecturer, an author, and a judge of academic competitions, including the annual business plan competition at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard College's Top Chef Competition, the Harvard President’s Challenge, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Law School Deans' Challenge. Previously, Adamowicz worked in the food industry and was an investment banker.

Bon'App

Adamowicz founded Bon'App in 2010, a social enterprise designed to combat the global epidemic of obesity through the use of an application that told users what was in their food. The app used simple language about calories, sugar, salt and 'bad fat' (the sum of saturated fats and trans fats). In 2012, Bon'App initiated a research program and clinical study in public schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Pennington Biomedical Research Center to improve the nutrition conditions of children in public schools in the region. In 2013, the Harvard Business School published a case study entitled: "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App".^[8]

EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation

Adamowicz founded Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation (EChO) in 2015. EChO was a 501(c)(3) public charity based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The foundation advocated universal nutrition education, from kindergarten to medical schools, and a new food labeling system that it intended to test in public schools in the Boston/Cambridge area. EChO focused on technology-based education interventions. It created the first augmented reality app for public health, called SugAR Poke.^[9][10]

References

1. "EIR: Laurent Adamowicz WG'84 Founder, EChO - Eradicate Childhood Obesity Founda - Entrepreneurship". Entrepreneurship. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
2. Source: Les Echos, July 25, 1996 On January 29, 2015, "Laurent Adamowicz has been appointed President of Global Commerce Technology Company"
3. August 16, 1996, Can a French Payment Architecture Translate? "(" Can a French payment architecture system translate? ")]
4. Source: Business Wire, May 13, 1996, 2015, «GC Tech's Globe ID Secure electronic payments on the Internet; GC Tech establishes headquarters in Silicon Alley "(" Globe ID, the technology of GC Tech, chosen for an international initiative on a secure electronic payment system on the Internet ")
5. Fabricant, Florence (2000-08-16). "Fauchon Opens A Market in Midtown". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
6. "Waldo veut développer Fauchon aux Etats-Unis et au Japon". lesechos.fr. 1998-02-05. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
7. "Le nouveau PDG de Fauchon veut implanter l'entreprise aux Etats-Unis". lesechos.fr. 1998-04-02. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
8. "Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App". Retrieved 2017-06-19.
9. "Avoid added sugar with this augmented reality app". Haptical. 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
10. Arnesto, Osmond (2017-06-15). "Portion Control Made Easy with New AR Menu App - VR Fitness Insider". VR Fitness Insider. Retrieved 2017-06-19.