Management
Pierre Blais
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pierre Blais joined MultiCorpora in April 2005 as the new President and Chief Executive Officer. Since his tenure, the company has tripled its operations, has won significant large government and enterprise accounts, and has opened a European office to better serve growing markets.
Pierre began his career as a computer programmer and in 1987 championed a business success story in Québec by providing dealership management software solutions (ERP) to the automotive industry. In 1993, he joined the North American leader in automotive software solutions, the Reynolds and Reynolds Company, where he led the Québec operations. In 1997 he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of the Canadian subsidiary. Under his leadership, the Canadian operations doubled its revenue and earned reputable awards for service.
With entrepreneurial experience and the skills he acquired working 11 years for a large corporation, Pierre is leading MultiCorpora in its mission to become the number one software and technology expertise company in the language industry.
Daniel Gervais
Executive Vice-President and Co-Founder
As a co-founder of MultiCorpora, Daniel Gervais has over 15 years of experience in the software industry.
Daniel has been responsible for product development and technology strategies and initial commercialization stages of the company. He has played a key role in helping MultiCorpora grow its client base to several hundred commercial and governmental organizations across North America and Europe.
As Executive Vice-President, Daniel is second in command and currently leads the R&D, Customer Support and Professional Services Teams. He is responsible for operational infrastructure, ensuring that the right resources are in place for MultiCorpora's clients. Daniel acts as a very effective resource for defining and resolving systems and process issues. He is well-known in the industry as a thought leader in language technology and is frequently invited to speak at key industry events.
George Stamatakos
Director of Marketing
Mr. Stamatakos brings over twenty years of experience in sales & marketing of enterprise software solutions to MultiCorpora.
His broad base of experience spans product development engineering and design engineering through to client services, sales, and marketing. Over the past four years, George has worked closely with the sales and product management teams to develop effective, cost-efficient marketing management strategies that support the corporate business plan.
George brings MultiCorpora's vision to an international market and continues to generate increased visibility for MultiCorpora's unique technology platform.
Jean-Pierre Pesch
Director of Sales, EMEA
Jean-Pierre brings more than 18 years of experience in sales and marketing.
He was the former Sales Manager at Telelingua International where he led the domestic sales group and performed international sales. During his stay at Telelingua, Jean-Pierre managed to increase the company turnover by 20%.
Prior to Telelingua, Jean-Pierre held various sales and marketing positions within the telecom sector including at KPN Ram Mobile Data where he served as a Marketing Director responsible for the wireless data marketing strategy and where he successfully launched the first WASP (Wireless Application Service provider) services in Europe.
Prior to joining KPN Ram Mobile Data, Jean-Pierre worked for more than 7 years for the Polaroid Corporation within the digital imaging group where he held various positions including Account Manager, Product Manager and Distribution Manager.
Jean-Pierre holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from WIFOS Brussels and has a post-graduate degree in Marketing Business-to-Business from EHSAL Brussels.
Steven McNair
Director of Sales, North America
Steven McNair is Director of Sales, North America and, in this role, he is responsible for the execution of the company’s business-level strategy in addition to leading direct sales efforts. Leveraging his strategic planning expertise, Steven works with customers in order to devise innovative approaches to further extend and increase the value of MultiCorpora’s suite of solutions. In addition to his strong background in CRM, HCM, ERP & SaaS applications, Steven brings more than 20 years of direct sales and management experience in both North American and Global Markets to MultiCorpora.
Most notably, Steven was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Wanted Technologies Corp., a leader in business and competitive intelligence within the media industry. During his 8-year tenure, he was responsible for developing the company’s product-line and business-level strategies, and he led the company through a period of rapid growth where revenues increased by 90% year over year, culminating in a successful IPO on the TSX-Venture Exchange in Canada. His innovative sales strategies and initiatives are still in use today by some of North America’s largest media corporations, including Gannett, Cox, Belo, Tribune, Media News Group and the New York Times Co.
Prior to Wanted Technologies, Steven was General Manager for TMP Worldwide, an internationally recognized recruitment communications agency and founding company of Monster Worldwide. There he was responsible for 12M in media sales, and he personally directed the creation of recruitment and retention campaigns for companies such as Air Canada, Bombardier, Softimage, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, and DMR-Fujitsu. Steven attended McGill University, where he earned a degree in Management, with a concentration in Human Resources and Industrial Relations.
Luc Parent
Director of Finance and Administrative Support
Luc Parent has nearly twenty years of experience in accounting and finance, and he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Université du Québec en Outaouais in 1986. He is a certified accountant as well as a certified management accountant.
During the twelve years he worked for an accounting firm, Luc developed a solid expertise as an advisor to small to medium businesses of the Outaouais. Since 1998, he has occupied senior accounting and finance positions in two major enterprises of the Ottawa-Gatineau region: first with Les Entreprises David Lauzon Ltée., a hardwood floor manufacturer, then with Expographiq, an exhibition booth maker.
Luc Parent joined the MultiCorpora team in June of 2006. His great experience in finance, his fine analytical abilities as well as his strong desire to participate in the success of MultiCorpora are important inputs that continue to contribute to the development of the company.
Jose Rodriguez
R&D Manager
Jose has over 16 years of software industry experience and 10 of those have been with MultiCorpora's R&D team which he joined in 2001.
He has been leading MultiCorpora's R&D team since 2006 when he was first promoted to R&D Team Leader and later to R&D Manager. He is currently responsible for overall system architecture, core technology development and overseeing the development team.
Jose holds a Masters in Computer Science from UCLV, Sant Clara, Cuba.
Shirley Coady
Product Manager
Shirley is MultiCorpora's Product Manager and is responsible for defining and maintaining the product roadmap, release management, compliance to standards and product related internal communications. She has a long history with MultiCorpora that started in 2002 as a Client Services Analyst and she progressed to ProSERV manager before becoming Product Manager in 2008.
During her career at MultiCorpora, she has amassed extensive experience in the implementation of MultiTrans in numerous national and international organizations of all sizes and with multiple departments within the Canadian government including the Translation Bureau.
Ms. Coady holds an Honours B.Sc. in Theoretical Mathematics and is a member of the Canadian Advisory Committee of the Standards Council of Canada for ISO TC37.
