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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 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 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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