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Experienced business leaders; well known and highly respected in the finance, marketing, communications and business development fields.
Chairman
Founding President and CEO of Komunik Corporation (TSX:KOM), positioned as a market leader in Communication Resource Management and sold in 2009.
Alain Paquin achieved $100M in revenue within 5 years and Komunik became the fastest growing company in Quebec ranking 2nd in Canada with Profit 100.
He has been involved with strategic development activities and marketing at an international level since 1990 with clients such as the International Monetary Fund (Washington), Bell Canada (Montreal), the World Bank (Washington), the United Nations (Geneva), Boeing (Seattle) and many more.
He worked on the implementation of various information management projects for Desjardins and Société Générale du Golf de Guinée in Togo (West Africa), amongst others.
He participated in the start-up and growth of several companies in the technological, marketing and Internet industries including FokusGroup, Ardilog, Axys and NetClub.
Alain Paquin also taught e-commerce at the HEC (University of Montreal), spoke at several conferences and received many awards for the outstanding quality of his work.
Among other recognitions, he has been nominated for the Marketing Personality of the Year and the Arista-Sunlife Award. He also received a Mercure Award in 2001. He was the recipient of the prestigious recognition Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2004. In 2006, he was recognized as the Personality of the Year by the Relationship Marketing Association. In 2007, he was voted CEO of the year by his peers at CEO Vision organized by the Quebec Technology Association (AQT). Furthermore, he has been named IT personality of the month for March 2008 by the FIQ, an important IT network in Quebec.
Alain Paquin, CEO of Komunik, Wins CEO Vision "CEO of the Year'' Award
Director
Christian Chagnon is the managing partner and co-founder of IUGO Ventures, founded in 2000 and specializing in private investment ventures involving the development of new technologies. Mr. Chagnon was Senior Vice-President, Strategic Planning and Technology at Groupe Vidéotron Ltd. Since 1998, he has served concurrently as the financial advisor for Sojecci Ltd., the Chagnon family holding company, handling investments in venture capital funds in North America and Europe. He sits or has served on the boards of several privately held companies, the Fondation de l'Hôpital Sainte-Justine and the Fondation Lucie and André Chagnon. In addition to his outstanding acumen as a corporate administrator, Mr. Chagnon brings to Whatsnexx leading-edge business expertise and an unmatched network of international financial contacts. He also holds a Computer Science (B.Sc.A.) degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Université Laval.
Director
In 2000, Normand Bélisle founded Inpix, a company that provides complete digital marketing solutions for its customers.
Normand Bélisle has worked for more than 20 years in the communications field. As a member of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec, his career has included positions such as President of Québec-Livres (distribution and edition of books), President of Productions Pixcom (television production) and President of Quebecor Multimédia (interactive services and edition).
Today, Inpix clients include Best Buy Canada, Future Shop, Vraktv, TD Assurance, RDS, Essilor, TV5 and Naya.
Normand Belisle’s vision is to combine the power of relational marketing and the richness of digital content to create a memorable and enduring experience for his clients' brands.
Director
Réjean Asselin has over 25 years of engineering, consulting, management and entrepreneurial experience primarily in the telecommunications and IT industry. Prior to joining BDC, he provided management consulting services in the high tech sector. Mr. Asselin was the Founder and CEO of Mobiway Inc., a GPS navigation and wireless communications start-up company. Previous to that, he founded and operated a wireless telecommunications engineering practice. He also held various technology and management positions within two large consulting firms, namely SNC and CGI.
Mr. Asselin holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Electrical Engineering) from Université Laval and is a member of the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec (Adm.A.).
Director
Jean-Sébastien Cournoyer (JS) has been in high technology since the mid nineties. He is currently President of Zanura, a venture accelerator and technology incubator with operations in Canada and Asia that he co-founded in late 2008. JS is also a Partner at MontrealStartup, a Montreal-based technology seed fund that he co-founded in November 2007. Prior to Zanura, JS was an investment professional with VantagePoint Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund with $4.5B under management. Prior to VantagePoint, he was responsible for the venture capital investment activities of la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP) in IT.
Prior to CDP, JS was an angel investor, CFO and Vice President, business development at Terrascale Technologies Inc., a storage software company he seeded and joined as employee #4 and that was sold to Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK). Prior to Terrascale, JS was with Innovatech Montreal and co-founded two internet companies in the Boston area from 1999-2001.
JS is an active entrepreneur and angel investor with investments and/or advisory relationships in many startups in digital media/internet and cleantech. He also sits on the board of MyVirtualPaper, DoubleV3 and ADAPT, a leading digital media conference.