The People & Expertise
Behind ECOSHIFT
A field-driven team connecting cocoa sourcing, traceability and EUDR compliance across Southeast Asia. Our approach is shaped by years of collaboration with producers, researchers and value-chain experts.
Founder & Managing Director
Linda Chevrier founded ECOSHIFT to bridge the gap between smallholder cocoa origins and increasingly demanding international supply chains.
Working directly across Thailand and Southeast Asia, she combines cocoa sourcing, field-level traceability, export operations and EUDR due diligence to help producers and buyers build transparent, commercially viable supply chains.
Her work spans farmer data collection, geolocation and traceability systems, cocoa sourcing and exports, buyer requirements, regulatory compliance — connecting origin-level evidence with market needs.
Cocoa sourcing · EUDR · Traceability · Southeast Asia · Supply chains
Communication
An experienced B2B content writer and digital strategist, Tim crafts compelling narratives that elevate our brand's message and partners with businesses across multiple industries to deliver engaging content.
Knowledge
& Field Collaboration
FIELD
Farmers · production · fermentation · post-harvest
→ SCIENCE
Cocoa research · agronomy · quality
→ ECOSHIFT
Data · traceability · technology
→ MARKET
Proof · EUDR · sourcing · commercial value
Cocoa quality, sustainability and traceability start long before a product reaches the market.
ECOSHIFT works at the intersection of field realities, scientific knowledge and digital traceability — translating what happens at origin into evidence that buyers can understand, verify and value.
Our exchanges and work with cocoa research and field experts, including CIRAD and IndoKakao, contribute to that approach: connecting agronomic and post-harvest knowledge with real production constraints across Southeast Asian cocoa origins.
ECOSHIFT’s role is to make that knowledge actionable — using technology to turn field practices and supply-chain data into proof, compliance and commercial value.
People Who Shaped
Our Approach
ECOSHIFT has also benefited from the time, experience and critical perspective of specialists who helped us challenge assumptions, strengthen our methodology and better understand the realities of cocoa value chains.
Sam Aflaki
Supply Chain, Data & Decision-Making
Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at HEC Paris, Sam Aflaki brings an academic perspective on how data, technology and operational decision-making can strengthen responsible and resilient supply chains.
His exchanges with ECOSHIFT have helped challenge and sharpen a central question behind our model: how fragmented field data can become actionable information for better supply-chain decisions.
Peter van Grinsven — In Memoriam
Agricultural Value Chains & Smallholder Farming
With more than 35 years of experience in agricultural value chains across Africa and Asia, Peter van Grinsven was an important sounding board in the development of ECOSHIFT.
His expertise in smallholder farming systems, farm economics and market-driven agricultural development helped shape our approach to a fundamental challenge: making sustainability work not only as a requirement for buyers, but as a viable economic proposition for farmers.
His guidance and generosity in sharing his knowledge continue to influence the way ECOSHIFT approaches agricultural value chains today.
Smilja Lambert
Cocoa Research & Post-Harvest Expertise — Asia-Pacific
With a PhD in Biochemistry and more than 25 years in cocoa research across Asia-Pacific, Smilja Lambert has brought deep scientific and field expertise to ECOSHIFT’s work on cocoa quality and post-harvest practices.
Her experience spanning cocoa genetics, fermentation, farmer training and origin development has helped strengthen our understanding of how scientific knowledge can be translated into practical improvements at origin — and ultimately into measurable quality and value for cocoa producers and buyers.