An award-winning entrepreneur and business executive with 30 years of experience in international technology businesses; Louis T\u00eatu is Executive Chairman of Coveo. Mr. T\u00eatu focuses on identifying strategic opportunities, fostering innovation, and mentoring Coveo\u2019s leadership team to ensure alignment and continued success. A visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Coveo, Louis supports meaningful engagement with key customers, partners, and stakeholders. <\/p>\n
Mr. T\u00eatu was Chief Executive Officer of Coveo from 2008 to 2025. Prior to Coveo, Mr. T\u00eatu co-founded Taleo Corporation, a leading international provider of cloud software for talent and human capital management, listed on NASDAQ in 2005 and subsequently acquired by Oracle for US$1.9 billion in 2012. Mr. T\u00eatu was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors from Taleo\u2019s inception in 1999 through 2007. Prior to Taleo, Mr. T\u00eatu was President of Baan SCS, the supply-chain management solutions group of Baan, a global enterprise software company. This followed Baan\u2019s acquisition of Berclain Group inc., which he co-founded in 1989 and where he served as President until 1996. Mr. T\u00eatu serves on the boards of Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and CAE Inc. He previously served on the board of Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services inc. and on the board of PetalMD, a leading cloud applications provider in the medical sector. He is an Engineering graduate from Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec City, where he resides, and a commercially licensed helicopter pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An award-winning entrepreneur and business executive with 30 years of experience in international technology businesses; Louis T\u00eatu is Executive Chairman of Coveo. Mr. T\u00eatu focuses on identifying strategic opportunities, fostering innovation, and mentoring Coveo\u2019s leadership team to ensure alignment and continued success. A visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Coveo, Louis supports meaningful engagement with key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":72,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16287","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n