Julien Billot

Mr. Billot is CEO of Scale AI, Canada’s artificial intelligence (AI) Global Innovation Cluster dedicated to boosting industry performance by leveraging AI technologies to improve productivity, with a specific focus on building resilient and sustainable supply chains. He is also an adjunct professor at HEC Montreal and the Montreal lead for two transformational programs aiming to launch and grow startups in Artificial Intelligence leveraging the city’s tech and business ecosystems, NextAI and the CreativeDestructionLab (CDL). He also serves as a director in various companies and non-profit organizations. He has extensive experience in the marketing, media, and mobile industries, with a track record of successfully executing print-to-digital business transformations. Until recently, Julien Billot has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Yellow Pages Group Corporation in Montreal, Quebec. Previously, he was Executive Vice President, Head of Media and Member of the Executive Committee of Solocal Group (formerly Pages Jaunes Group), the publicly traded and incumbent local search business in France. Earlier experience includes serving as CEO of the digital and new business group of Lagardère Active, a multimedia branch of Lagardère Group and 13 years in senior management positions at France Telecom, notably as Chief Marketing Officer for Orange, the company’s mobile subsidiary. Mr. Billot is serving today as a Board Member at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, is Chairman of a Montreal-based company, Jogogo Media and a Board member for DistrictM and a French media group, Groupe Paris Turf. Mr. Billot graduated from École Polytechnique (Paris) and Telecom Paris Tech. He holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in Industrial Economics from the University of Paris-Dauphine.