Summary
Emile Girard is a seasoned digital leader with 20+ years of hands-on web development and product experience, currently shaping digital strategy and product at National Bank of Canada. He blends engineering fluency (devops, back-end, front-end) with product ownership, digital marketing, UX/CX and data-driven optimization to align customer needs with business and financial models. His career spans startups he founded and scaled, senior roles across media and telecom (Rogers, Quebecor, Vidéotron) and a stint teaching digital marketing at HEC Montréal, reflecting both practitioner and educator perspectives. Known as a thought leader in digital analytics and performance, he favors being challenged and disrupted by the fast-evolving industry. Based in Saint-Bruno, Quebec, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset to large enterprises, turning technical expertise into measurable product and business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Economy & Political Science, B.Sc. Economy & Political Science at Université de Montréal
DEC Sc. de la Nature, DEC Sc. de la Nature at Collège d'Alma
English, French, javascript, php