Executive profile
Jean Marais
Jean Marais is the Founder & Group Executive Chairman, Sanodea Group, and Executive Advisor for mining, commodities, and asset-intensive value recovery. Sanodea is an execution-led advisory and intelligence platform built for mining, industrial, commodities, and asset-intensive environments where value loss is measured in tens or hundreds of millions.
He brings more than 30 years of senior executive and board-level experience across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and global asset-intensive sectors, with operating exposure across 4 continents and 20+ countries. His career spans P&L leadership, mine turnarounds, capital programmes, transaction execution, digital transformation, and long-cycle value preservation.
In addition to Sanodea, Jean serves as Senior Mining Advisor, Operating Partner & Technical Consultant for an International Software Technology Group, and as Managing Director: Corporate Advisory for an International organisation. He is recognised globally as a CEO and mining digital transformation leader, and extends his work into lifestyle coaching and authorship where performance, legacy, and personal discipline intersect.
His mandate is practical: identify where $10M-$100M+ of value is being lost, align leadership around the true constraint, and convert strategy into visible operating movement.