Stephan Ruiz is a finance executive with substantive accounting, finance and operations experience spanning over 20 years across multiple organizations and has worked in Mexico, the US, Italy, UK, France and Switzerland. Stephan joined World Economic Forum USA Inc. (now World Economic Forum LLC) in New York in 2015 and currently serves as Head of Group Controlling and Finance and Operations USA. Prior, he was finance director of the Environmental division of Alstom Power in Switzerland. Previously, he had global finance responsibilities in the Energy and Transportation sectors at Alstom Transport, General Electric and Thales. Stephan has also applied his skills to help start-up companies in the social, environmental, and technology fields to grow. Stephan holds a MBA from Neoma Business School in France.