Antoine Azar

Board member of the Fondation des Artistes, managing both private and public funds to help local artists in need and foster a vibrant artistic community.

Board member and treasurer of the Fondation & Alumni of Polytechnique Montreal, overseeing an annual budget of $50M

Thirdshelf is an advanced retail customer engagement and loyalty automation platform for SMB retailers that integrates to major POS systems such as LightSpeed, Vend and Springboard. Thirdshelf allows retailers to quickly and easily deploy their own branded loyalty program, powered by cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to get customers back in store, increase basket size, and offer amazing service.

CTO and cofounder of Fiska (formerly Thirdshelf). Developed a next-gen payments acceptance platform for SMB retail and restaurant. Brought to market a web/mobile/native payments SDK, as well as a full suite of business intelligence apps including commerce analytics, reputation management, listings management, loyalty, email marketing and more. The Fiska platfom ingests millions of transactional data points per day and powers tens of thousands of merchants across North America. Inventor of new semi-integrated payments technology (patent pending).

With Logient’s acquisition of Mobilogie, I assisted the executive team with the integration of the two teams, ensuring business continuity, strategic integration of Mobilogie’s technology and portfolio within Logient, and defining synergies for Logient’s target market.

Mobilogie, acquired by Logient in 2015, is a digital agency specialized in building mobile products, apps and strategies for its customers, with particular focus on the retail and startup segments. Our team has built flagship apps for customers including Aldo, CN, Nokia, Microsoft, Angelcare, LiveStrong and more. Our work has been rewarded by numerous industry awards and covered by international media. Our R&D lab has produced world-first innovations, from a massive mobile multiplayer game at a U2 concert to a showcase of the “Retail Store of the Future” at DX3, covered by TechCrunch and other media: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/a-look-at-the-ibeacon-store-of-the-future-with-retail-startup-thirdshelf/

Responsible for evaluating multi-million dollar grant applications from universities and research centres around the nation on cutting-edge scientific projects in medical informatics.

Financial Accounting is an 8-week, 60-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. This course teaches the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Participants learn how to prepare and interpret financial statements—the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement—and calculate and interpret critical ratios. The course concludes with an introduction to forecasting and valuation. Financial Accounting was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning method.

Master's research in interactive hybrid non-rigid 3D image registration, in collaboration with Siemens Corporate Research, USA, and INRIA, France.

Da Vinci Excellence Award. International Profile. Forces Avenir 2004.