Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2019
Chief Executive Officer
Diagram Ventures
Francois Lafortune is an entrepreneur and investor with fifteen years’ experience in building businesses and the financial technology sector. He is the co-founder and CEO of Diagram Ventures, an $85M venture builder that cofounds technology companies pursuing transformative innovation in the financial, insurance and healthcare sectors. Since 2016, Diagram was instrumental in building 5 companies from the ground up, hiring more than 250 full-time employees and creating more than $175M in enterprise value. Francois is also a Partner of Portag3 Ventures, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Hydro-Québec, he sits on Minister of Finance Bill Morneau’s advisory committee on Open Banking, and he is a member of the AMF’s Technological Innovation advisory committee. Prior to founding Diagram, Francois spent seven years at McKinsey & Company, during which time he served as co-leader of McKinsey’s Canadian Technology practice. Francois is an entrepreneur at heart, having launched his first business, assembling and selling personal computers, at the age of 13. Francois earned an Honours Bachelor of Engineering, with Distinction, from McGill University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At McGill, Francois received the J.W. McConnell Scholarship for outstanding academic performance and John D. Thompson Prize for Entrepreneurship in Engineering.
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