About Datamaran

Marjella Lecourt-Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran. Datamaran is the leader in Smart ESG software, enabling companies to identify and prioritize issues material to their operations, deepen their teams’ ESG knowledge, monitor risks and opportunities in real-time and authentically own their ESG strategy in-house. The company has offices in the UK, Spain, USA and the Netherlands.

Marjella leads a diverse, global team of 120+ ESG experts, data scientists, commercial executives and technology professionals. She is globally recognized as a thought leader and is regularly featured in the media, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Economist, and CNBC’s Power Lunch.

She pioneered the world’s first documentary on corporate sustainability and ESG, the “New Heroes of Sustainable Business.” The purpose was to amplify the voices of business leaders who have gone beyond compliance and are championing a smart way to ESG, starting with governance. The film has been a lifeline to executives who find themselves in charge of ESG for the first time and has given them confidence to become sustainability heroes in their own right.

At age 30, Marjella became the youngest female Director of the Global Reporting Initiative - the most widely used standard for measuring and managing ESG issues. She joined the GRI headquarters in Amsterdam in 2007 where she successfully set up the Services Department.

Jean-Philippe oversees Datamaran's financial, operational, and legal aspects. He leads strategic engagement with the financial services industry and is one of our 3 founders – the crack team behind our success.

JP has close to two decades of capital markets experience in the Financial Services Industry, from being a Derivatives quant at JP Morgan in Hong Kong in 1996 to Managing Director of Bank of America at 29 years of age. He also was head of US derivatives trading and Deputy head of BNP's Prime Brokerage Risk Management in the US.

Having spent the majority of his career working on Wall Street, JP has real drive, enthusiasm and a keen focus on results when it comes to advancing business decision-making with data-driven solutions.

With a MSc in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Centrale Paris, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics Lycee Louis Le Grand, JP is ideally suited to controlling Datamaran's financial matters.