
Mag. Armand Colard
Founder & CEO
ESG Plus
Armand Colard studied Biology and Environmental Economics in Vienna and has been working in the Sustainable Finance sector for 20 years. Mr. Colard is the founder and CEO of ESG Plus GmbH, a company specializing in ESG, SDG, and impact analyses of financial products and institutional portfolios. Previously, between 2005 and 2015, he led the Sustainable Finance team at WWF Austria. In 2019, ESG Plus launched a platform for private investors called CLEANVEST, which allows anyone to align funds and ETFs with their personal values (e.g., child labor, fossil fuels, biodiversity loss, weapons, gender equality, etc.) free of charge. In 2022, the software tool CLEANVEST PRO was introduced, enabling banks, wealth advisors, asset managers, and family offices to create and download detailed and customizable ESG analyses and reports for over 6,000 funds and ETFs.