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Food Rocket Adds Guillaume Leger to Board; Considers IPO

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Food Rocket, a US grocery delivery service, added Guillaume Leger to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Leger will contribute his expertise in M&A, Finance and IPOs to the establishment of the profitable Food Rocket business model and to the IPO plans. He has been the Vice President, Controller at Couche-Tard for nearly two years and oversees financial reporting and supports key aspects of the company’s investments and M&A activities around the world. 

Prior to Couche-Tard, Mr. Leger served as the Hong Kong CFO at Citigroup, where he was responsible for the integrity and controls over financial records, the production of financial forecasts, and monitoring / deployment of capital & liquidity positions. He operated in partnership with Citi’s many businesses to provide insight, foresight, and strategic advice in order to maintain or improve returns to shareholders. During his 15 years tenure with Citi, he held a number of leadership positions in numerous jurisdictions from being a member of Citi’s M&A group in New York to a Regional Controller in Asia Pacific. He holds accounting degrees from both the Université du Québec à Montréal and HEC Montréal.

Led by Vitaly Alexandrov, CEO and founder, Food Rocket is a rapid grocery delivery startup that provides fast grocery delivery, promising door-to-door delivery within 10-15 minutes of the order’s placement. Its business model is based on AI-enabled technologies to manage warehouse stocks, forecast demand and optimize delivery time by predicting the closest store that offers the fastest delivery time and the lowest costs of putting together and delivering the order. The startup is competing with the biggest players on the market – DoorDash, GoPuff, Amazon Fresh, InstaCart.

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15/06/2022

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