Mr. Pichette was appointed to the position of Lead Independent Chair in February of 2022 after having served as the Chair of the Board since October 2018. Mr. Pichette currently holds the role of General Partner at inovia capital, a Canadian venture capital firm, as well as serves as Independent Board Chair of Twitter. From August 2008 until May 2015, Mr. Pichette served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Google. From January 2001 until July 2008, Mr. Pichette served as an executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., including, in his last position, as President, Operations for Bell Canada, and previously as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President of Planning and Performance Management. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Pichette was a principal at McKinsey & Company. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., a Canadian telecommunications company.

Mr. Pichette holds a M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University and a B.A. in Business Administration from Université du Québec à Montréal.

Lightspeed's board of directors appointed JP Chauvet to the role of Chief Executive Officer, on February 2, 2022.

Chauvet joined Lightspeed in October 2012 as Chief Revenue Officer and became a board member in September 2013. In April 2016, he was named President and throughout his tenure had been integral to advancing Lightspeed’s mission, including leading many of the Company’s strategic acquisitions, its listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange, and leading the launch and growth of the Lightspeed Payments platform. Chauvet has also overseen the Company’s robust customer growth worldwide.

With over 17 years of technology leadership experience and a strategic mind to match, JP has been a key element of Lightspeed's continued growth. By developing Lightspeed's go-to-market strategy and taking a more direct approach to engaging independent businesses, he has helped equip over 150,000 retail and hospitality customer locations worldwide with cutting-edge technology. 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.

Dax Dasilva is the creative mind behind Lightspeed Commerce and Age of Union. Founded in 2005, Lightspeed is a one-stop commerce platform for merchants around the world to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences. The platform transforms and unifies digital and physical operations by enabling multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions and connection to supplier networks. With Lightspeed, merchants in retail and hospitality can build thriving businesses for the future.

Dasilva was appointed Executive Chair of Lightspeed’s board of directors on February 2nd, 2022. Prior to that, he led the company’s operations as Chief Executive Officer. As Executive Chair, Dasilva works with the CEO and the Board to set the strategic direction of the Company, with a focus on furthering Lightspeed’s business advocacy and global sustainability initiatives through stakeholder outreach, customer advocacy, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Nathalie Gaveau is a serial entrepreneur, board member and investor. She started out in M&A at Lazard before co-founding PriceMinister, one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in Europe (now part of Rakuten). She also co-founded Shopcade, a data-driven social marketplace.

Nathalie has extensive international experience, including 6 years in Asia Pacific.

She is a Non-executive Director of Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners (CCEP) and Calida AG (CALN), as well as a major benefactor of the HEC Foundation for business education and an active venture investor in e-commerce, fintech and impact investing.

Based in London, Nathalie is currently President of Tailwind International SPAC. Tailwind is a multi-SPAC platform “Built by founders for founders” with a world class team of tech founders and public market gurus on both sides of the Atlantic. Nathalie is also a Senior Advisor to BCG Digital Ventures, the global innovation arm of the BCG group.

Ms. Gaveau holds an MBA from HEC Paris.

Paul McFeeters brings Lightspeed a proven track record of leading internationally-recognized companies. Formerly the Chief Financial Officer of OpenText, Mr. McFeeters joins the board with more than 30 years of experience in financial services and the software industry. He has served on several boards throughout his career including Hootsuite, Constellation Software and Blueprint Software Systems.

Dale Murray is a successful technology entrepreneur with extensive board experience in the UK, US and Australia. Ms. Murray is a non-executive director at Xero (global cloud accounting, listed in Australia), The Cranemere Group (a holding company for mid-cap sized businesses, US), LendInvest (property finance, listed in UK), Jupiter (asset manager, listed in UK) and RatedPeople (marketplace for tradespeople, UK).

She started her career at PWC then Vodafone in New Zealand, followed by Pearson in the UK. Ms Murray co-founded and led the software business Omega Logic, which launched electronic mobile phone top-ups in Britain alongside the mobile phone networks and other "top-up solution providers".

Additionally, she served on the Business Taskforce for David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, and was a non-executive director at the UK Government's Department for Business. Debretts named her as one of the "500 most influential people in Britain" in 2015. She is a dual British/New Zealander and was honoured with a CBE in 2013 by HM the Queen, for services to business.

Ms. Murray holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Business Management from Auckland University of Technology and an MBA from the London Business School.

Ms. Saintil has over 20 years of experience as a technology leader and business executive. From April 2019 to 2020, she was the Chief Operating Officer, R&D-IT of Change Healthcare Inc. Prior to that, she held the position of Head of Operations, Product & Technology with Intuit Inc. from November 2014 until August 2018. Ms. Saintil has also held leadership positions at Yahoo, Joyent, PayPal, and Sun Microsystems. Ms. Saintil's serves on the boards of Banner Corporation since March 2017 and ShotSpotter since April 2019. She is a member of the Risk Committee and Compensation Committee at Banner Corporation and a member of the Audit Committee at Shotspotter. Ms. Saintil has received numerous accolades during her career, most recently being named one of Women Inc.'s 2019 Most Influential Corporate Board Directors. In prior years, she was ranked one of the Most Powerful Women Engineers in the World by Business Insider magazine, she was recognized as a Women of Influence 2017 by Silicon Valley Business Journal, and she has earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from Girls in Tech. Ms. Saintil holds a B. Sc. from Florida A&M University and a M. Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rob Williams has over 20 years in eCommerce and retail experience working in leadership positions for both high-end specialty and big-box retail. Mr. Williams comes to Lightspeed from Amazon, where he led Tier 1 Vendor relationships globally. In his decade at Amazon, Rob was promoted and rotated to five leadership positions on both the Seller and Retail teams.

He currently consults worldwide on Disruptive Innovation and eCommerce and is a notable speaker on those topics.