As GRESB continues to grow, we are proud to welcome new employees to our team! Standing at a pivotal point in time, GRESB is positioning itself with skilled and talented individuals to help us actualize our goals towards a sustainable future. We are confident that the new employees will help us realise our vision of a real asset investment industry that plays a critical role in creating a sustainable world!
Here is your opportunity to e-meet the new employees of the GRESB family:
Sebastien Roussotte
Chief Executive Officer
Home Country: Great Britain
Favourite Quote: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”
Currently Working on: Protect GRESB’s intellectual foundation, Extend our collaboration with the Industry, Innovate with relevant ESG taxonomy.
Roel de Weerd
Chief Financial Officer
Home Country: The Netherlands
Favourite Quote: “Trust is good, control is better”
Currently Working On: Improving the finance organisation and reporting
Why is sustainability important to you: We only have one world. We should care about it.
Guido Wagenaar
Chief Commercial Officer
Home Country: The Netherlands
Favourite Quote: “Science, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Currently Working On: We are working on a new website.
Why is sustainability important to you: The future of life as we know it is being determined by everything we’re doing—and not doing.
Lodewijk Brave
Business Controller
Team: Business Support Team
Home Country: The Netherlands
Favourite Book: My current favorite book is ‘De meeste mensen deugen’ (‘Humankind’ in English) in which Rutger Bregman makes a compelling argument against the general belief that humans are selfish by nature.
Currently Working On: Apart from handling any financial and operational challenges, I am also working towards getting GRESB to formally become a benefit corporation.
Why is sustainability important to you: Our current actions directly affect the future quality of living for everything that resides on our planet, and I believe that every change that we can make now will have an exponential impact going forward.
Alba Barbado Fernández
Research/Sales Support Analyst
Team: Member Relations Team
Home Country: Spain
Favourite Movie: “Cinema Paradiso” is one of my favorite movies, it brings out so many emotions. And the soundtrack is simply memorable (thank you Ennio Morricone).
Currently Working On: Besides GRESB, my main project at the moment consists of taking a course on climate change and development, as part of my master’s degree. It’s not a special project, but at least now I can make well-founded contributions when arguing against climate change deniers.
Why is sustainability important to you: I see it as the only option to meet our present needs while ensuring that future generations inherit an inhabitable planet.
Alexander van Zyl
Marketing & Digital Specialist
Team: Marketing & Communications Team
Home Country: South Africa
Favourite Quote: “Our values determine the nature of our problems, and the nature of our problems determines the quality of our lives.” – Mark Manson. An homage to the fact that we cannot always control what happens to us, but what we do have control over is how we react.
Currently Working On: I joined GRESB just over 3 months ago at a key milestone in the company’s growth journey. Being a part of this growth process has given me the opportunity to expand on the scope of GRESB’s digital marketing activities. At the moment I am working on developing paid media campaigns for GRESB via our social communication channels. I am excited to see what is to come!
Why is sustainability important to you: When I think of sustainability, I tend to move beyond the cliche green anecdotes to a more holistic understanding of self-supporting mechanisms that does not only focus on the self, but rather on the well-being of the community. This is important to me, because put quite simply, we cannot maintain our quality of life as human beings without it.
Sofia Gomez
UX | UI Designer
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: Brazil
Favourite Quote: “What is essential is invisible to the eyes.” – Little Prince
Currently Working On: A design system to support GRESB products and digital experiences.
Why is sustainability important to you: Sustainability is important to me because we have been seeing in the last years the consequences of a world without taking nature into account. I believe we still have time, and that a sustainable world is possible, today I feel really glad to in some way be part of this necessary change.
Khushboo Sawlani
Product Owner
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: India
Favourite Quote: “Timeless, I value time.”
Currently Working On: We are currently working on developing the SFDR Product.
Why is sustainability important to you: We won’t exist without sustainability.
Ahmad Hassan
Senior Software Engineer
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: India
Favourite Quote: Make a mistake, that’s life. Make the same mistake, that’s stupidity.
Currently Working On: I am currently working on finance & invoicing
Why is sustainability important to you: Preserves natural resources and improves the quality of life.
Miguel Ferreira
Senior Software Engineer
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: Portugal
Favourite Quote: “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” – C. A. R. Hoare in his 1980 Turing Award Lecture.
Currently Working On: Re-thinking GRESB’s platform from the ground up. Starting by modernising the foundation – the infrastructure – and renovating it all the way up to services that don’t even exist yet.
Why is sustainability important to you: It’s important for everyone, even for those who do not think it is. Sustainability is about being able to sustain us and everything around us. I’m very much interested in that.
Behnam Khanbeigi
Senior Software Engineer
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: Iran
Favourite Quote: “We are alive because of not to stay, We are waves, so our stagnation is our death!” I really like this poem by the Persian poet Saeb-e-Tabrizi because it gives me energy to continue with strength.
Currently Working On: I am excited to be a member of the GRESB portal development team. As a hobby I also have some small projects to make daily life easier and more fun.
Why is sustainability important to you: It’s important for everyone, even for those who do not think it is. Sustainability is about being able to sustain us and everything around us. I’m very much interested in that.
Maria Groves
Junior Software Engineer
Team: Technology Team
Home Country: Denmark
Favourite Movie: Watching Lost In Translation as a teenager had a big influence on me. It taught me to stare wistfully out of windows to 90s alt rock.
Currently Working On: I am currently working on improving the main assessment software, which is giving me a solid grounding in GRESB’s key area of work.
Why is sustainability important to you: We need to secure a good future for us all, so that we thrive and not just survive.
Fabio Schweinoster Manfroni
Analyst
Team: Infrastructure Team
Home Country: Italy
Favourite Movie: The masterpiece movie from F. Capra (1946) “It’s a Wonderful Life”. The title already says why, never take anything for granted.
Currently Working On: Facility level reporting on Infrastructure, SFDR, Competitive Landscape Analysis
Why is sustainability important to you: By being sustainable we can make sure we preserve our planet for future generations
Marcelo Menegol
Data Scientist
Team: Data Science Team
Home Country: Brazil
Favourite Book: Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov. Besides the great story, it makes us think about destiny, free will, and what can be done to affect the world around us.
Currently Working On: Right now I’m focused on making GRESB ESG reports’ generation as efficient as possible!
Why is sustainability important to you: Society has been neglecting nature for a long time now, and the consequences are affecting us all. The only possible future for humanity is a sustainable future.
Tanya Chen
Junior Data Scientist
Team: Data Science Team
Home Country: Taiwan
Favourite Movie: My top 3 movies are White Chicks, 22 Jump Street and Mean Girls because I am a very nostalgic millenial and these movies are such tears of an era.
Currently Working On: I have been working on the Analytics Dashboard we have to bring actionable insights for the business.
Why is sustainability important to you: I think it is important in order for humanity and other creatures (like cats) to survive. Especially when I physically feel that there are only two seasons in my home country Taiwan now: Hot and very hot (Winter used to exist there!)
We are thrilled to welcome our new additions to the team and are excited to see how GRESB will progress as a global benchmark for ESG performance!