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. Laredo currently serves as our Senior Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joined us in December 2014 after having served Atex Group Ltd. in the roles of CEO, Asia Pacific from January 2012 to April 2014 and Vice President Sales, EMEA from July 2008 to December 2011 and Sitecore in the role of Regional Director, Southeast Asia from June 2014 to December 2014.

Mr. Laredo has also held sales and marketing roles at Nstein Technologies Inc., TATA Communications Ltd and IXIASOFT Technologies Inc.

Mr. Laredo holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s degree in International Business from HEC Montréal. Mr. Laredo serves as a venture partner and advisor to LYS Energy Solutions in Singapore.

Mr. Teixeira has been with us since February 2011 and currently serves as our Senior Vice President of Global Sales.

Mr. Teixeira has 10 years of sales and marketing experience in the technology sector. Mr. Teixeira joined Lightspeed with prior experience in the telecom industry at Bell Canada, primarily in sales, as well as in marketing at CIM.

Mr. Teixeira served the company as a Sales Executive, from February 2011 to December 2012, before moving on to create and establish our Demand Generation team where he served as head of that group for 18 months. Mr. Teixeira moved to New York City in April 2014 to establish Lightspeed’s first U.S. sales office, where he served as Director of US Sales until March 2016, before moving back to Montréal and acting as Vice President of Sales for North America and overseeing all go to market teams in North America.

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. Malmberg started with us in June 2006 and has held a variety of roles, including his current role of Vice President of Product Research. He began his tenure with us as Training Manager, then became Director of Sales Engineering and Training in December 2012. He transitioned to Director of Product Management in October 2016 and then in December 2017, he was made Vice President, Product Management, a role which he held until January 2019.

Mr. Malmberg worked in the retail industry for 15 years before joining us.

Ms. Finnemore has led our human resources function since February 2009 and has served as Vice President of Human Resources since February 2017. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Ms. Finnemore obtained a Bachelor of Arts at Western University.

Mr. Paperman has been with us since 2014 and served as our Vice President of Technology since January 2018.

Mr. Paperman previously worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft, and has also founded several retail and eCommerce related start-ups.

Mr. Paperman holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science 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. Simms rejoined Lightspeed in 2018 after having previously worked for us from 2007-2013. He currently serves in the role of Vice President of Design.

Mr. Simms has worked or consulted for a variety of software technology companies including Fog Creek Software, Trello, and Atlassian.

Mr. Simms holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University.

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.