Origin appoints Martine Ferland as angel investor and strategic adviser

Origin, the enterprise benefits intelligence platform, has appointed Martine Ferland (pictured) as an angel investor and strategic adviser.

Ferland brings four decades of experience in global employee benefits and HR consulting, including five years leading Mercer.

She also served on the boards of WSP Global and the Adecco Group.

Ferland said: “Early in my career, one of my largest financial services clients asked me to document and rationalise their benefits across 120 countries. 

“We did it by hand. It took the better part of two years, and by the time we finished, it needed doing again.

“That problem never got solved in the four decades since. When I started discussing with Chris what he and Pete are building at Origin, I could not find a more natural application of AI anywhere.”

Ferland added: “Origin is infrastructure rather than another tool. 

“My job now is to be useful: stress test the growth plan, share my perspectives, and support the team as they build a community excited about using AI to transform the value delivered by their benefit programs.”