Jason St. Laurent Joins Odessa as Chief Operating Officer to Drive Aggressive Growth Strategy in Professional Services

March 29, 2022

Jason St. Laurent Joins Odessa as Chief Operating Officer to Drive Aggressive Growth Strategy in Professional Services

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29, 2022 – Odessa, the leading provider of technology solutions for asset finance, today announced that professional services veteran, Jason St. Laurent, will join as its newly appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO). St. Laurent has led large global services teams at several market-leading organizations, most recently at FIS. At Odessa, St. Laurent will spearhead the company’s global delivery organization with the goal of further innovating systems implementation practices with an emphasis on customer satisfaction.

“Jason joining our executive team marks a significant milestone for Odessa in our mission to solve enterprises’ biggest challenges in moving away from legacy technology and realizing time to value with the Odessa platform,” commented Madhu Natarajan, co-founder and CEO at Odessa. “Jason’s experience holding senior leadership positions across multiple continents and impeccable track record of executing efficiency-driving tactics will directly result in lasting partnerships with our customers.”

“It is an honor to join Odessa and its outstanding leadership team in this exciting stage of their growth strategy,” commented St. Laurent. “Odessa has an impressive 24+ year track-record of delivering global solutions. Now fully understanding the capability of its features, next-generation cloud and low-code solutions, I appreciate how Odessa differentiates in the market and how its solutions are a critical enabler for truly agile business. I look forward to working with the team, growing the company across all regions, and helping our customers with their business challenges.”

St. Laurent graduated from the University of Delaware with a focus in accounting and management information systems and will be based out of Odessa’s USA headquarters.

About Odessa

Odessa is a software company exclusively focused on the leasing industry, and the developers of the #1 platform in the industry. Headquartered in Philadelphia, USA, Odessa’s leasing solutions and workforce of 1200+ power a diverse customer base of asset finance companies globally. Odessa provides a powerful, end-to-end, extensible solution for lease and loan origination and portfolio management. The Odessa Platform further provides rich feature sets including low-code development, test automation, reporting and business intelligence to ensure organizations can more effectively align business and IT objectives.