Program Director @ Element AI (www.elementai.com). Serial startup Entrepreneur, FounderFuel mentor. Ex- Yellow Pages, HomeAdvisor, Acquisio, Ubisoft.
Sebastien Provencher is CEO & Co-Founder of Folders, a Montreal startup developing a data-driven small business management software. Serial Web entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience building small business products & services, Sebastien recently spent two years working as Vice President, Product Innovation at HomeAdvisor Canada. He co-founded his first startup Needium (Praized Media) in 2007 and he worked there as Vice-President Product Management & Business Development until his departure in 2012. From 1999 to 2007, Sebastien played an instrumental role in formulating Yellow Pages Group’s online strategy in Canada. He developed their most successful online advertising product ever (DirectoryPlus), struck a strategic partnership with Google, and created a vision around local search. He regularly writes about the Montreal tech scene and startup life on his blog and tweets at @sebprovencher.