He’s a man with a knack for prognostication. Well, that seems to sensationalize
things a bit. His is largely a learned skill and it’s worthy of far more than a checkout aisle glance. He holds degrees in Business Management and Economics from The Université de
Montréal. In fact, as a graduate student there, his work focused on developing software that created economic forecasts. He was, for a time, a banker and financial consultant for popular retail chains by day and a software developer by night. He became fixated on providing management solution tools with the simplicity of Lotus 1-2-3 fueled by the wherewithal of someone in the retail world. In 1997, he started Multidev Technologies Inc. in Montreal, Quebec. Nearly twenty years later, his Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for retailers, e-tailers, and wholesalers have changed – and in a lot of cases shaped – the way many apparel, department store, footwear, home décor, jewelry, specialty, and sporting goods companies do business across North America. Bloomberg’s most recent snapshot of his company lists him as Founder and President, but when you hear the conviction in his voice when he talks about the development of and his confidence in his flagship products, ChainDrive and e-comDrive, you think Chief Engineer.
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