
Philippe Rival
Cofounder & CEO
Philippe is a French-Australian civil engineer, bridge-builder, and two-time TEDx speaker, with a decade of hands-on built-world experience on residential, infrastructure and transportation projects. Working for the world’s largest private contractor, VINCI Construction, Philippe has served as project, bid, proposal and structures manager on projects including a $2.7b transit project in Ottawa, Canada, an $800m bridge project in Louisville, USA, and a $150m luxury hotel project in Paris, France.
Philippe received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his M.Eng in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, with a year abroad at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France.


