Ms. Sylvie Veilleux is a strategic global technology leader and former CIO with over three decades of experience, holding top management positions at several global technology firms. She served as the first Chief Information Officer at Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX), where she developed the organization’s first global strategic IT function, enabling it to expand and scale before and after its IPO. Ms. Veilleux served in several critical technology roles at multinational firms such as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Salesforce (NYSE : CRM), Mozilla Corporation and Franklin Templeton Investments (NYSE: BEN) where her expertise includes driving various digital transformation efforts at different points of maturity in both public and private companies, scaling for growth at inflection points such as IPO, M&A, and robust operations and cyber security leadership.
Ms. Veilleux serves on the Leddartech (NASDAQ : LDTC) board as an independent director and member of the Audit Committee, and as an independent director and member of the audit committee for Softchoice (TSE : SFTC). Ms. Veilleux serves on several private companies as non-executive Board Chair and Compensation and Nomination Committee chair for Cinchy, an independent director for Prezi, and an independent director and member of the audit committee for QScale. Previous board service includes Europcar Mobility Group when it was a publicly traded company as an independent director and member of the Strategy Committee, the Nomination and Compensation and Human Capital Committee and Chair of the Tech and Cyber Committee, and as an independent director on the board of H1.
Ms. Veilleux was recognized by Forbes CIO NEXT 2021 Top 50, by Technology Magazine Top 100 Women in Technology 2021 and by the California Diversity Council in 2017 as a Distinguished Chief Information Officer. Ms. Veilleux studied Computer Science at the College de Limoilou in Quebec City, Canada.