David Legendre, three-quarter view, smiling, in a navy suit, white open-collar shirt, and glasses, walking through the Gowling WLG lobby with a bag. A professional gathering — not a speaking appearance.

ABOUT

Lead data functions, then build AI products.

My career began in software, then grew into entrepreneurship and enterprise data leadership — MTY Food Group, CAE, National Bank of Canada — before Quantumize AI.

That path shaped a practical judgment: which investments deserve funding, what leadership must change for adoption to hold, and when an agent is worth the complexity.

David Legendre
Co-founder and CEO, Quantumize AI

ABOUT

Lead data functions, then build AI products.

My career began in software, then grew into entrepreneurship and enterprise data leadership — MTY Food Group, CAE, National Bank of Canada — before Quantumize AI.

That path shaped a practical judgment: which investments deserve funding, what leadership must change for adoption to hold, and when an agent is worth the complexity.

David Legendre, three-quarter view, smiling, in a navy suit, white open-collar shirt, and glasses, walking through the Gowling WLG lobby with a bag. A professional gathering — not a speaking appearance.
David Legendre
Co-founder and CEO, Quantumize AI

At MTY Food Group, as VP, Data & Analytics, I stood up the function and the foundations for customer intelligence, procurement, and commercial decisions.

The hard decision was not only technical: teams had to align on operating language that was still tacit. That is why I now insist on naming context and the owner of the result before expanding an AI capability.

At CAE, data and analytics leadership — platforms, governance, AI adoption — meant connecting technical capabilities to operating teams, in a regulated aerospace environment.

At National Bank of Canada (2017–2021), as Product Owner in Data & Analytics, I took Customer 360 and pricing-model initiatives through to decisions in a regulated financial environment.

Earlier: Laurentian Bank, running Davyann, and leading research and development at Profilium. Software and entrepreneurship preceded the enterprise leadership roles.

I am co-founder and CEO of Quantumize AI. I work with Jean-Philippe Durand and Hugo Paquet. The role combines company leadership with hands-on agentic engineering — so advice stays tied to the choices you have to make when you build.

Quantumize AI is building Argo, including Argo Sales for enterprise sales preparation. Argo Sales is in pilot. These products are a team effort. My individual practice and our shared product work inform each other, without being the same thing.

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EDUCATION

Computer science degree, Université de Montréal. Executive MBA, Université de Sherbrooke.

LOCATION

Montréal. Work in English and French.

COMMUNITY

Member of OpenExO. CDAO Circle participant at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, 22–24 May 2023, ExCeL London — not a speaking appearance.

Next step

Choosing a first use case, or clarifying a stalled pilot.

Talk about the diagnosticdavid.legendre@quantumizeai.com