Meet the team
Industry pioneers and experts.
We built the payroll platforms that multinationals run on at ADP, PayGroup and AstutePayroll, and we spent years mapping data and integrating platforms by hand. datascalehr is the tool we always wished we had.
Original designer and head of product and development for ADP GlobalView, the world's first and largest multi-country payroll platform.
Jerome designed GlobalView at ADP and led product and development from inception to $500 million in annual recurring revenue. GlobalView runs 45 SAP payroll engines as one service. He later led product and technology across people-data platforms of every size, including general and strategy leadership at ADP's Innovation Labs, and he was Chief Product and Technology Officer of PayGroup through its acquisition by Deel in 2022. He built enterprise software at IBM and SAP before ADP. Jerome holds three US patents in HR and talent management.
Designer of KMod™ and the datascalehr platform, after building and integrating payroll and HCM platforms at ADP.
Nicolas designed KMod™, the knowledge model that has learned 8,000+ payroll schemas and 2M+ validated mapping decisions across 180 countries, and he owns the architecture of the platform. At ADP International he was a full-stack engineer on the payroll and HCM platforms and the data architect for the global API and mobile platform. He then moved to the US as chief product owner and developer at ADP's Innovation Labs, where he was CTO and lead developer of Compass, named HR Product of the Year in 2017 by HR Tech, the organizer of the world's largest HR technology conference.
Growth leader in global SaaS and HR outsourcing.
Emmanuel runs datascalehr's partner channel: payroll service providers such as Strada and SD Worx, consulting firms such as EPI-USE, and the HCM vendors whose customers connect to payroll through datascalehr. At ADP he ran strategic account management for some of the largest multinational payroll clients in the world. Emmanuel is an angel investor and advisor to European startups, including 360Learning.
Chief Architect of AstutePayroll, from inception to Australia's largest contractor management platform.
Luke runs engineering and security for the datascalehr platform. He joined AstutePayroll at inception and was Chief Architect and lead developer through its growth into the largest contractor management platform in Australia, which Deel acquired in 2022. As Chief Architect, Luke led the engineering team through every layer of the platform, from the database design and the front-end application to the integrations, performance tuning and security.
Finance and M&A operator who grew a global workforce company twentyfold.
As Chief Strategy Officer of Velocity Global, Brad led strategy, technology, BI and analytics, strategic finance, and M&A while the company grew revenue 20x. Before Velocity Global he worked in investment banking and M&A advisory, and he has executed $2 billion in M&A and capital-raise transactions. Brad is an angel investor and advisor to HR tech and work tech startups.
Global payroll operator who has worked at every level of payroll, from the local pay run to the global product.
Len runs client success at datascalehr, from implementation through go-live and ongoing support. Before datascalehr she led payroll service associates running local and regional payroll, then led the implementation, service, product and product architecture teams that built and delivered global payroll across more than fifteen countries. She held those roles at Deel, PayAsia, PayGroup and Microsoft, so she knows payroll from the pay run up through the platform design.
Our story.
Before datascalehr, we built and ran payroll platforms at ADP, PayGroup and AstutePayroll, two of which are now part of Deel, and we built enterprise software at IBM and SAP.
We ran implementation and service teams ourselves, so we know this problem from the point of view of the payroll administrator and the payroll consultant, as well as from the technology side. On every project the payroll engine was the known part. The time went into mapping each country’s data, in each provider’s format, into one record, and then keeping that mapping alive every time a rule or a file changed.
Why datascalehr
Too much lost in translation
HR and payroll software is a nearly $40 billion market that still cannot get the basics right: moving an employee's data from the HR system into payroll without someone reshaping the data by hand. Every HCM vendor, payroll provider and consulting firm brings its own data model. Every customer has had to reshape its HR data to fit each data model, in every country, and again every time a rule changes.
Connecting N HR systems to N payroll providers takes N-squared integrations. ETL tools and integration platforms made each integration faster to build, but no ETL tool or integration platform took the mapping work off the customer.
HCM vendors and payroll providers are now putting AI agents on payroll data to answer employees' pay questions and to check payroll runs before payday. An AI agent can answer only from the data the agent can read. A bad integration makes the AI agent useless, because the AI agent cannot explain pay data the integration never delivered.
We started datascalehr to fix HCM and payroll data for good.
Source: The Business Research Company, HR Payroll Software Global Market Report 2025.
A different approach
HR and payroll have a translation problem. Every customer's data is fine, and every vendor's data is fine. Unfortunately, the customer's data and the vendor's data are written in different languages.
If you're travelling in a country where you don't speak the language, you can still order a meal in a restaurant with a translation app on your phone. You keep speaking your own language, the waiter keeps speaking theirs, and the meal that arrives is the meal you ordered.
datascalehr is the universal translator for HR and payroll systems. A customer never has to change its data, and neither does the vendor. Nobody has to write the mappings or learn another system's language, because datascalehr speaks every system's language and gets more fluent with use. The pay the customer intended is the pay each payroll provider calculates, correct the first time.
A universal translator frees innovation across HR. Vendors can spend their engineering time on better HR and payroll products rather than on custom integrations. Customers gain the most. An HR team can rethink a compensation policy, improve its onboarding or how the business pays its people, and spend the team's time improving the business instead of worrying whether its HR systems will even understand each other.
With every HCM and payroll system in the world able to talk to each other natively, HR and payroll can finally unleash the emerging potential of AI agents.
