JP Provencal

JP Provençal is Senior Vice President of Business Development of Coveo. Previously, he was a resident entrepreneur at Desjardins Venture Capital in Montreal, a $1B fund, where he served as consultant, coach and mentor to executives in companies where Desjardins had invested or planned to invest. Prior to Desjardins, JP was CEO of California-based InterTrade Systems, a B2B solutions provider to the Retail and Distribution sectors. InterTrade was recently acquired by Montreal-based publicly-traded Mediagrif Technologies [TSX: MDF]. Prior to InterTrade, JP was Vice President of Business Development of Baan SCS, the supply-chain management solutions group of Baan, a global enterprise software company, which he joined upon the acquisition of Berclain Group, Inc., where he had been Vice President of Sales. JP began his career at HP in solution selling, after studies at Université du Québec in Automated Production engineering. JP has also acted as a private equity investor in technology companies where he played an active role. He lives in Montreal with his entrepreneurial wife and is a proud father of four young adults whom all wish to change the world in their own ways. He is also an avid golfer and skier.