Gérard Métrailler

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Senior Product & Strategy Leader Passionate about Customer Value for Growth & Profitability

Technology / Software / Internet

I am a Business Leader & Product Management executive with 20 years’ experience in global strategy, product marketing, and business development at high-tech companies. I have demonstrated leadership in P&L management, high-performance team development & mentoring and global product launches in 15+ languages simultaneously. Since reading Donald Norman's book "The Invisible Computer" in the late 90s, one sentence has remained with me: "I don’t want to use a word processor, I want to write a letter." This notion represents perfectly how I see technology, and how it needs to bring value to and be in the social context of the user. In other words, I always look at technology as the tool, not...