Emmanuel Arnaud

Background

About Emmanuel Arnaud

Emmanuel Arnaud is the CEO of HomeExchange. A graduate of HEC Paris business school and the Harvard Kennedy School (Arthur-Sachs Fellow), he has used his passion for sustainable development to make advances in the energy sector and to drive his entrepreneurship activities. As a student, he co-founded Ghonsla, a company specializing in sustainable insulation solutions in Pakistan. After graduation, he tackled First Solar’s strategic marketing in France. Arnaud then combined his first passion, sustainable development, with his second passion, traveling, when he had an idea that would revolutionize the home exchange market: the creation of a point-based system to organize non-simultaneous housing exchanges. Arnaud co-founded GuesttoGuest in 2011 as a flat organization to drive sustainable growth. In 2017, GuesttoGuest acquired U.S-based HomeExchange, creating a world leader in the home swapping market. Both companies merged in 2018 into the new HomeExchange platform under one global brand and vision. Solidly anchored in the sharing economy, HomeExchange is a promising alternative to traditional hospitality markets, ensuring that peer-to-peer transactions become increasingly mainstream. Arnaud is a sharing economy insider with extensive management, entrepreneurship, start-up, and leadership expertise, especially in the travel and tourism and tech industries. He is frequent keynote speaker and panelist at travel industry, the tech industry and other events, including the FrenchTouch Conference, VivaTech, the Digital Travel Summit, and EyeForTravel, as well as at his alma mater, HEC Business School. He is the recipient of Echo Touristique’s “Person of the Year 2017” trophy for innovation and the FACCNE (French-American Chamber of Commerce New-England) Business Award 2018.