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Luc Ménard

Vice-President, Venture Capital

 

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Luc Ménard has been Vice-president, Venture Capital since October 2007. Previously, he held the position of Sector Manager, Telecommunications and Investment Manager, Telecommunications with Desjardins Venture Capital.

 

Before joining our team in 2001, he worked in large telecom companies in the wireless, traditional network, and cable distribution sectors.

 

Over the past 15 years, Luc has gained extensive expertise in these sectors, through his active involvement in telecommunication company startups. His experience provides him with the ability to share entrepreneurs' vision, and thanks to his entrepreneurial spirit and a thorough understanding of the stakes and challenges involved in a constantly changing business sector.

 

He sits on a number of Boards of Directors.

 

Luc holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Sherbrooke in Engineering as well as an MBA from Queen's University.

 

 

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Pierre-Yves Jetté

Advisor, Investment

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Pierre-Yves Jetté joined our team in August 2006. Prior to that, he worked mainly in the telecommunications industry for ten years where he was involved in strategic planning as well as new product development and marketing. He also took part in launching two telecommunication services companies.

Pierre-Yves holds an MBA from the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) and is also a member of the Ordre des comptables en management accrédités du Québec.

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Léon Lajoie

Investment Manager

 

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Léon Lajoie has been an Investment Manager at Desjardins Venture Capital since October 2003.

Before joining the team, Léon was Manager, Industrial and Commercial Commissariat at the Société d'aménagement de l'Outaouais. He worked as General Manager of the Fonds régional de solidarité Outaouais and later as Senior Investment Manager at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Léon's has acquired in-depth knowledge of the SMB environment in a career spanning 13 years in venture capital investing.

He has sat on the boards of directors of several companies in both the technology sector and the traditional economy.

Léon holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Ottawa.

 

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Roland Léger

Investment Manager

 

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Roland Léger joined Desjardins Venture Capital in September 1999 and serves as Investment Manager, Information Technology.

Roland has more than 10 years' experience in telecommunications, mainly in engineering, strategic planning and new market development. For the last eight years, he has focused on Québec software companies. He plays a very active role on the boards of directors of some of our partner companies.

Roland is an engineer with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sherbrooke. He also has a degree in administrative sciences (DSA) from HEC de Montréal.

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Jacques Perreault

Senior Investment Manager

 

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Jacques Perreault is Senior Investment Manager, Information Technology, with Desjardins Venture Capital.

 

Over the past twelve years, Jacques has been actively involved in the financing of Canadian technology companies. He played a leading role in the development and growth of the technology subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec (formerly known as Sofinov), one of the largest venture capital organizations dedicated to the financing of Canadian technology businesses.

His broad expertise in technology financing and his network of local and international contacts are major assets. In previous positions, Jacques has worked with such companies as Think Dynamic (sold to IBM), Pyderion Contact Technologies (acquired by Intercom Inc., a subsidiary of EADS), Tecsys (TSX: TCS), Kaydara (acquired by Alias/Autodesk), Bibliomondo (acquired by Isacsoft) and Geocom TMS (acquired by Red Prairie). He has also been a member of the advisory committees of Boston-based Grandbanks Capital and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

 

Jacques holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Finance) and an MBA (Honours) in Economics from Université Laval in Québec City.

 

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Gregory Shaw

CTO in Residence

 

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Gregory Shaw joined Desjardins in 2006 with over twenty five years of experience as a product developer and manager of R&D and Engineering teams. As our CTO in Residence, he anchors our technical and IP due diligence and coaches our companies in what it takes to bring solid products to market with well protected IP. Greg works with companies to ensure that the business model is highly profitable and cascades through the company such that we understand what products and channels are or will be making money.

 

Gregory has 19 years of R&D experience gained developing telecommunications services, platforms, embedded systems, Operations Administration & Maintenance systems for fixed, wireless and satellite networks as well as data warehousing and a web portal.

In addition to his R&D experience, Gregory has on an interim basis managed both the engineering and information systems teams of a European wireless carrier, directed the evolution of TDMA, GSM and TETRA networks in Brazil and Europe as well as chairing the ETSI standards committee for High Speed Data for TETRA.

Gregory holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University of Montreal, and is a member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec.

 






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