Alexandre Le Bouthillier holds a PhD in Operations Research from the Université de Montréal (Canada) and completed a post doctorate program at the Université de Genève (Switzerland). He is the co-founder of Planora, an artificial intelligence & optimisation company. Alexandre was VP Science & Technology at RedPrairie (now JDA Software) following the acquisition of Planora.

A financial angel, he invests talent and capital in technological ventures. Recipient of scholarships and other academic awards from government research funding agencies, corporations and professional associations (NSERC, FRQNT, Bombardier, Delcan, ATC, CRT), his research and work interests include operations research, artificial intelligence (machine learning, deep learning), healthcare, oncology, brain, big data & cloud infrastructure.

Jointly with ApSTAT partner Nicolas Chapados, he is co-founder of Imagia, an artificial intelligence company dedicated to the fight against cancer. Moreover, Alexandre is co-founder and partner of AI health fund Linearis, board member at Mila (the Quebec Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by ApSTAT Partner Prof. Yoshua Bengio) and board member of IVADO, MEDTEQ and Montreal InVivo.