Executive management

Mr. Dasilva has been the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Lightspeed since he founded the Company in 2005. Under Mr. Dasilva’s leadership, Lightspeed has grown into a global business with offices in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia, employing over 700 people worldwide.

Mr. Dasilva has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012 and Startup Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016 for both Quebec and Canada. He was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs at the 2017 Builders + Innovators Summit.

In addition, in 2015, Mr. Dasilva founded Never Apart, a non-profit organization offering creative space for cultural programming with global reach and impact.

Mr. Chauvet has been our President since 2016. Having joined us in the role of Chief Revenue Officer in 2012. He became a member of our board of directors in 2013.

Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Chauvet held various leadership positions at Atex Group across Europe and Asia where his last role was CEO, EMEA. Prior to Joining Atex, Mr. Chauvet was the VP, Sales and Marketing of Nstein Technologies and from 2000 to 2005, he was the VP, Sales and Marketing of IXIASOFT Technologies Inc.

Mr. Chauvet also serves on the boards of directors of Coveo Solutions Inc., a provider of AI-based search technologies, and Alaya Care Inc., a cloud-based home care software solutions provider.

Mr. Nussey has been the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since April 2018. Mr. Nussey has almost 20 years of experience as a technology executive.

From 2010 to 2018, Mr. Nussey was the Chief Financial Officer at D2L Inc., a SaaS-based education technology provider. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Nussey was in a series of roles at The Descartes Systems Group, ultimately being appointed as the Chief Financial Officer in 2003.

Mr. Nussey has been a member of the board of directors of Versapay Corporation, a fintech company and provider of cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions, since May 2018. Mr. Nussey is also Treasurer and a board member of the Loran Scholars Foundation.

Ms. Bakshani started as our Director of Finance in November 2014 and soon after became Vice President of Finance in July 2015, and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance in January 2019.

She has 10 years of experience as a finance leader in the technology/media space. From May 2009 to November 2014, Ms. Bakshani was the Senior Vice President of Finance at Cineflix, a media production and distribution company.

Prior to May 2009, Ms. Bakshani worked in public practice at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. Ms. Bakshani holds a B. Comm from McGill University, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada, and is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Texier joined us in 2019 and serves as our Chief Product Officer.

Before joining our team, Mr. Texier was the Chief Technology & Product Officer of SSENSE, a luxury fashion technology leader and pioneering international e-commerce destination known for exclusive original content and a curated selection of fashion and luxury goods for men and women. Prior to SSENSE, Mr. Texier was Chief Technology & Product Officer at Global Fashion Group in Singapore and held various technology executive roles at AXA Group, Viadeo and AlloCiné in France and Nstein Technologies in Canada.

Early in his career, Mr. Texier founded Eurocortex, a software solution vendor serving the press and media industry. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from ENSEEIHT, Polytechnic National Institute in Toulouse, France.

Mr. St-Martin joined Lightspeed in May 2019 through the acquisition of Chronogolf, a SaaS company he co-founded in 2013. In October 2019 he was promoted to Senior Director of Global Account Management and in July 2020 he became our Senior Vice President of Global Sales. 

Prior to founding and growing his own company, Mr. St-Martin accumulated five years of experience in Venture Capital and Private Equity at Teralys Capital in Montreal and GE Equity in London, UK.

Mr. St-Martin holds a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce in International Business from the University of Ottawa

Ms. Nahas has been with Lightspeed since July 2012 and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Customer Support. She had previously served as Vice President, Customer Support from April 2014 to January 2019.

From 2009 to 2012, Ms. Nahas was the Vice President of Operations at Embvue Inc., a software engineering company providing solutions and certification for Aerospace companies. From 2003 to 2009, Ms. Nahas built and managed a new IT services unit at McGill University, IT Customer Services (ICS), as the Director of that unit.

Ms. Nahas started her career in 1992 with Virtual Prototypes Inc, (now Presagis), a software company that delivered simulation and graphics software and services to aeronautic and defense organizations.

Ms. Nahas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.

Mr. Leblanc became our Vice President of Development in May 2018 and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Development in January 2019. He joined us from Shutterstock, Inc. where he held the roles of VP of Product Engineering from January 2017 to May 2018 and Director, Technology from April 2015 to January 2017. He previously held multiple roles at Radialpoint from August 2009 to April 2015.

Mr. Leblanc has also founded multiple start-ups.

Ms. Ajamian joined us in June 2012 and is currently our Vice President of Marketing. Ms. Ajamian has spent time working in our sales operations, data, internal systems and lead acquisition departments.

Prior to joining us, Ms. Ajamian worked as a statistician at UNESCO. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University.

Mr. Lacelle started with us in August 2014 and has served as Vice President of Operations since April 2015.

Mr. Lacelle has 18 years of experience in technology-focused operations roles, including most recently as Vice President Operations at Communications Voir Inc. He has also worked at Nurun Inc., a global digital agency and division of Quebecor, and Cossette, Inc., a major Canadian marketing communications company.

Mr. Micak has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since September 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Micak was VP, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at D2L Inc. between June 2017 and July 2018, and Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary with D2L Inc. between September 2011 and June 2017.

Mr. Micak also worked in private practice as an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP prior to D2L. Mr. Micak holds a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Rhetoric and Professional Writing from the University of Waterloo.

Isabelle joined Lightspeed as Vice President of Product Management in November 2019. Prior to joining us, Isabelle held various Product Management leadership roles at companies of different size and level of maturity such as SSENSE, Global Fashion Group and Amazon France.

Isabelle is passionate about technology, having spent over a decade in the online retail space developing innovative products that delight both customers and internal users alike. As a general management executive, Isabelle’s expertise lies in product management, digital marketing, pricing strategy, E2E online shopping experience, supply chain management and corporate strategy.

She has a track record of developing high performing cross-functional teams of product managers, software developers, UX specialists and data scientists to build technology that support seamless omni-channel and international e-commerce operations.