Alice Guéhennec, Sodexo Chief Tech Officer, winner of the HotTopics Global CIO 100 2026, for the 2nd consecutive year

Sodexo Group
Jun. 26, 2026

The HotTopics Global CIO 100 Awards recognize worldwide technology and digital leaders, who are redefining leadership by driving enterprise transformation, shaping business strategy, and delivering impactful results at scale in a rapidly changing world.

This recognition highlights some of the significant achievements accomplished by Alice and the Sodexo Tech team, across the four themes below:

Functional Innovation: To support its growth objectives, the Group has launched an ambitious acceleration plan, designed to scale AI-Tech platforms, driving operational excellence, enhancing consumer experience, and aligning with clients’ strategic roadmaps.
Leadership and strategic vision: Co-design is a cornerstone of Sodexo’s digital approach, working hand in hand with clients, consumers and operations. This approach aims to design experiences that are not only innovative, but also truly usable, adopted and impactful on the ground, enabled thanks to a modular architecture.
Teams’ development: As the transformation and deployment of technology across the organization strongly rely on managers and their teams, Sodexo supports its people in developing their skills and capabilities through dedicated and personalized learning programs. These initiatives are designed to build expertise, with a strong focus on emerging technologies such as Copilot and Generative AI.
Community contribution: Driven by a strong commitment to extending technology’s impact beyond Sodexo, Alice Guéhennec contributes to the Cigref – the IT Club of Major French Companies – as well as the Women CIO Community. She also contributes to the digital inclusion of underprivileged youth, through Apprentis d’Auteuil - a non-profit organization supporting vulnerable youth and their families -, delivering tangible impact for communities.

This award is a recognition of the commitment and outstanding work of the entire Sodexo Tech team. Tech isn’t just Tech. It’s how we leverage data and technology to deliver measurable value - enhancing innovation and performance for clients, creating more personalized experiences for consumers, and driving productivity and efficiency for our operators. Technology, Data & AI are powerful enablers in our strategic roadmap, making the Sodexo model more efficient, scalable, and repeatable.

Alice GuéhennecSodexo Chief Tech Officer

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The HotTopics Global CIO 100 2026 is an international recognition program that honors 100 technology and digital leaders from around the world. It highlights executives who leverage technology to accelerate business transformation, shape corporate strategy, and deliver measurable results at scale.
This recognition acknowledges Alice Guéhennec’s leadership and the contributions of Sodexo’s Tech teams in driving the Group’s transformation. It demonstrates how technological innovation is connected to clearly defined business objectives, including improving operational performance, enhancing consumer experience, and creating value for clients.
Alice Guéhennec was recognized in the HotTopics Global CIO 100 2026 for her leadership in accelerating Sodexo’s technology transformation. The recognition highlights her contributions across AI-Tech platforms, functional innovation, digital strategy, teams’ development, and engagement with the broader technology ecosystem.
This distinction also reflects the collective efforts of Sodexo’s Tech teams, with a focus on concrete priorities such as strengthening operational excellence, enhancing consumer experience, better supporting clients’ strategic roadmaps, and developing employee capabilities in Copilot and generative AI.
Technology, data, and artificial intelligence are key enablers of transformation at Sodexo. They help the Group:
Develop shared technology platforms;
Improve operational performance;
Enhance consumer experience;
Deliver increasingly effective solutions tailored to clients’ specific needs.
At Sodexo, these capabilities are not viewed as separate from the business. They are fully integrated into the Group’s strategy through close collaboration among Tech teams, clients, consumers, and operations to design solutions that are practical, actionable, and widely adopted in the field.
Sodexo connects technological innovation, talent development, and societal impact by linking its digital transformation to practical and concrete applications. Sodexo provides personalized learning programs designed to strengthen internal capabilities, particularly in Copilot and generative AI.
This approach extends beyond the company itself. Alice Guéhennec also contributes to organizations such as Cigref - the IT Club of Major French Companies -, the Women CIO Community, and digital inclusion initiatives supporting disadvantaged young people, notably through Apprentis d’Auteuil. These efforts reinforce the company’s commitment to responsible technology and digital leadership.

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Alice Guéhennec, Sodexo Chief Tech Officer, winner of the HotTopics Global CIO 100 2026, for the 2nd consecutive year

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Alice Guéhennec, Sodexo Chief Tech Officer, winner of the HotTopics Global CIO 100 2026, for the 2nd consecutive year