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Jaume Fontal
CPTO & Co-Founder
Jaume Fontal is a technology professional who currently serves as CPTO (Chief Product and Technology Officer) at Manglai, a company he co-founded in 2023. Before embarking on this project, he gained experience as Director of Technology and Product at Colvin and worked for over a decade at Softonic. At Manglai, he develops artificial intelligence-based solutions to help companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint.
Articles by Jaume Fontal
Corporate sustainability
Investor relations and ESG: sharing live data with LPs and stakeholders
Limited partners (LPs) and other stakeholders now expect more than an annual or quarterly ESG report. Many want frequent, ideally continuous, visibili ...
Corporate sustainability
Creating a sustainability mindset: embedding ESG in company culture
Sustainability is not just about ticking boxes or meeting regulatory requirements. It is about building a mindset that puts environmental, social and ...
Corporate sustainability
Future trends in ESG for private equity: a five-year outlook
The ESG landscape is moving fast, with regulatory change, investor preferences and technology reshaping how private equity firms operate. What might t ...
Corporate sustainability
Leveraging ESG for better financing: the ESG ratchet in lending agreements
Securing favourable financing terms is a priority for any private equity manager looking to optimise returns. Over the last few years, lenders have in ...
Corporate sustainability
The role of AI and technology in modern ESG management
Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies are changing nearly every part of business, and ESG management is no exception. From automated d ...
Corporate sustainability
Materiality in ESG: how to focus on what matters for your portfolio companies
Materiality in ESG is about prioritising the issues that matter most for a specific business. It is tempting to track every sustainability metric avai ...
Corporate sustainability
From Excel to enterprise: modernising ESG data management in portfolio companies
For years, Excel has been the default tool for ESG data collection and reporting. But as regulatory demands and investor scrutiny grow, manually updat ...
Corporate sustainability
ESG benchmarking in private markets: a deep dive into EDCI and beyond
As private markets grow in size and influence, so does the need for transparent, comparable ESG benchmarks. Self-assessments and proprietary ratings l ...
Corporate sustainability
The step-by-step guide to starting your Scope 3 emissions journey
When private equity firms talk about carbon footprints, they usually start with Scope 1 and Scope 2: emissions from direct operations and purchased en ...
Corporate sustainability
AI agents and copilots: the new toolkit for ESG due diligence in private equity
A due diligence deadline doesn't wait for a target company to finish cleaning up its Excel files. That's usually where ESG assessments stall: not beca ...
Corporate sustainability
How AI speeds up carbon data collection across private equity portfolios
Private equity firms managing dozens of portfolio companies hit the same bottleneck every reporting cycle: collecting comparable carbon and energy dat ...
Waste management
AI for waste management: how large companies cut errors and reporting time
AI-powered waste management isn't a future promise anymore: large companies use it today to eliminate manual data entry and cut weeks out of annual re ...
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