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Nomination: Mylene Savoie joins our board.

Mylène has spent her career building and leading high-performing teams.

Not just growing organizations, but creating environments where people consistently perform at a high level, over time.

Working alongside Marc Tassé, Mylène will chair our People & Performance Committee.

As we continue to scale across countries and verticals, this becomes critical.
- Growth puts pressure on teams.
- It tests leadership.
- It exposes gaps in structure, communication, and alignment.

She brings deep experience in people management, organizational development, and performance.

Her perspective comes at the right time, as we focus on attracting, developing, and retaining the right talent, while maintaining a high-performance culture grounded in accountability and purpose. Her mandate is clear:

- Bring structure to how we grow
- Strengthen leadership across the organization
- Align performance with real outcomes
- Ensure our culture holds, even as we scale in a distributed environment

As we enter our next phase, building the right team at every level remains some of the most important decisions we are making.

This nomination also carries a unique dimension:

Mylène is Paul-André Savoie’s sister. Beyond family, they've worked together early in their careers and currently serve on a non-profit board.

That relationship matters, but expectations are clear.
This role is about rigor, perspective, and holding the organization to the highest standard.

We’re grateful to have Mylène join the board at this stage of our evolution.

(Not so) funny story about planning vs. reality.

Our CEO spent most of this weekend preparing for our upcoming Board Meeting: Q1 retrospectives. Detailed plans for the rest of the year.

Contingencies on top of contingencies.
All backed by real data.
What worked. What didn’t. Where we adjust.
The kind of planning he was genuinely proud of.

Then Sunday morning, he went out to run a few errands: Flat tire.

After hours of planning for everything that could go wrong in the business… He get stopped by the one thing he didn’t plan for.

It isn't essential that you actually plan for everything. Sometimes learning from experience is just as valuable.

Last summer, our team had a flat on the way to a trade show. They weren’t ready. Stranded for four hours on the side of the road.

This time was different.
No new “plan.”
Just better preparation.

Spare tire, hydraulic jack & impact gun, all ready in the trunk.
Five minutes later, he was back on the road.

What changed wasn’t the likelihood of failure, it was a better prepared response to it.

This moment taught him that resilience doesn’t always come from planning, it's also built up over time from experience, when we learn from our lessons.