Germain Lamonde

Germain Lamonde is the CEO and founder of EXFO, a Quebec City-based cyber firm that develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, webscale companies and equipment manufacturers in the global communications industry. Germain is the Executive Chairman of the Board and served as the company’s CEO for over 30 years. During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Lamonde grew the company from the ground up into a global leader in the test,service assurance and analytics markets. Today he is actively involved in leading EXFO's acquisition strategy and defining the company’s growth strategies, customer outreach, select projects and corporate governance policies.Mr. Lamonde has served on the board of directors of several organizations, includingthe Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations, Québec International (Quebec City'seconomic development agency), the National Optics Institute (INO) and Université Laval in Quebec City. He has recently been appointed President of the Quebec Digital Transformation Council and is also Chairman of the board of the Canada-Ontario-Quebec ENCQOR innovation labs on next-generation 5G technology. Mr. Lamonde holds a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from the Université de Montreal's school of engineering (Polytechnique Montréal) and a master's degree in optics from Université Laval in Quebec City. He is a graduate of the Ivey Executive Program at Western University in London, Ontario.