Rooted in language, growing in comprehensive employability

Stephane Rivard

Stephane is the co-founder of HiringBranch and a lifelong entrepreneur. ‍ In his spare time, Stephane likes to play chess, run, ski, mountain bike, sail or participate in any outdoor adventure.

Soft skills:

Problem Solving, Rapport, Curiosity & Divergent thinking

Patricia Macleod

Patricia brings the vision for changing how we hire and train frontline employees. She is a lifetime entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the global contact center industry. She likes to de-connect outdoors in Canada's wild mountains and rivers

Soft skills:

Making things happen.

Kevin Victor

Kevin is the VP of Sales & Partnerships at HiringBranch. In his spare time, Kevin enjoys music and likes to play team sports, especially soccer.

Soft skills:

Active listening, Building Rapport & Adaptability

Eric Dofonsou

Eric is the CTO of HiringBranch and a technology enthusiast. ‍ In his spare time, Eric likes to play games, run, exercise or solve puzzles.

Soft skills:

Multitasking, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking & Positive Language

Beth Thouin

Beth is a customer-led growth advisor, former VP Marketing and mentor. She loves all things Marvel, photography and travel.

Soft skills:

Active listening, Problem Solving & Adaptability

Assaf Bar-Moshe, PhD

Assaf is an expert in how languages work. As an NLP specialist, he reverse-engineers what people write or say into something that a computer can evaluate. ‍ In his free time, he researches extinct dialects and practices yoga.

Soft skills:

Critical thinking, Problem solving & Time management

Annie Bergevin

Annie is the CFO at Hiring Branch and an ex-investment banker from Wall Street. Annie is an avid tennis player and loves to travel.

Soft skills:

Action driven, multitasking, big picture thinking

Matt Parisien

Matt is the Product Manager at HiringBranch and delights in the collaborative spirit. ‍ In his downtime you can find him riding his bicycle in search of buttery croissants.

Soft skills:

Problem solving, Critical thinking & Rapport

Lucas Desjardins

Lucas is really passionate and motivated about his work. Quality and performance is something he's always looking for. Very sociable, he is always ready to help his colleagues. ‍ He loves playing video games with friends during his free time.

Soft skills:

Quick Learner, Self-taught, Problem solving & Sociable

Vaibhav Kesarwani

Vicky is passionate about natural language processing (NLP), having co-published 6 research papers. He has worked on deep language models, language understanding/generation/modeling, text classification, and other NLP tasks. He has a Masters in Computer Science with a thesis on NLP, machine learning, and deep learning. In his free time, he loves to read tech blogs, play console games, and watch random YouTube videos.

Soft skills:

Supriya Dua

Supriya is an undergrad computer science student who is currently working in QA. ‍ In her spare time, she reads Medium articles or goes for long walks.

Soft skills:

Problem Solving, Adaptability, Work ethic

Brandon King

Brandon is an individual who is highly focused on family stability (emotional/financial etc.). ‍ In his spare time, he likes to play games and videos, and help friends out.

Soft skills:

Patience, Honesty and trying to be Courteous as much as possible

Bogdan Radu

Bogdan is a software engineering undergraduate student currently working alongside the cloud development team. In his spare time, he likes video games, cooking and reading.

Soft skills:

Curiosity, Active Communication and Problem Solving

Donalda Isaak

Donalda is a driven software engineering undergrad who started with HiringBranch as an intern. She is versatile; providing consistency, quality control, and project support. Outside of work she enjoys her quiet time with her friends, family, two cats, and many cups of tea.

Soft skills:

Focused, Detail Oriented, Results Driven, Precise Communication

Teeya Li

Teeya is a computing science undergraduate student currently completing her co-op term with our QA team. In her spare time, she likes to contemplate how to graduate in a 4-year timeline without going bald and consuming copious amounts of social media and the occasional enjoyment from reading, gaming, and tv-binging.

Soft skills:

Teamwork oriented, sociable, creative, self-motivated

Pierre-Luc Therrien

Pierre-Luc is a multi-skilled and rigorous person. He prides himself on his adaptability and his willingness to help anyone who asks for it. Outside of work, he likes video games, knitting, crocheting, trekking, and painting.

Soft skills:

Problem-solving, Adaptability, Leadership

Susan Taylor

Susan is a Chartered Professional Accountant involved in high-level accounting, taxes and complex finance for 20 years, and is the Finance Manager for HiringBranch. Susan enjoys spending peaceful time in nature and mindfulness practices in her spare time.

Soft skills:

Precise Results, Focused, Adaptability, Organized

Kayla Lee

Kayla is an undergraduate computer science student completing an internship with HiringBranch. Outside of work she enjoys bingeing the latest TV shows, reading new books, and baking for friends and family.

Soft skills:

Detail oriented, team work focused, and positive communication

Lydie Jannon

Lydie has 8 years of experience teaching conversation and communication classes in English & French. She believes that learning a foreign language goes beyond words and solving basic communication needs - rather the magic of speaking different languages is how it opens the mind and teaches another way to think about the world. She is a strong believer in work-life balance, values family, loves to travel, and saves time to volunteer.

Soft skills:

Strong interpersonal qualities, Approachable, Adaptability, Team work