Laurent Simoneau is co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Coveo, a position he has held since 2011. Mr. Simoneau served as Chief Executive Officer of Coveo from its incorporation in 2004 until 2011. Prior to Coveo, Mr. Simoneau was Chief Technology Officer of Copernic, an early leader in desktop search, where he oversaw Copernic’s product strategy and directed the research and development of core technologies. Mr. Simoneau also served as Chief Operating Officer at Copernic during which he successfully orchestrated the spin-off of Copernic’s enterprise search software division in 2005 into what is now Coveo. Mr. Simoneau holds a Master of Business Administration from the Université du Québec. Mr. Simoneau served on the board of directors of Qohash Inc., a data security software development company, until May 2023.

Peter Curran is the General Manager of Commerce at Coveo. Over the years, he has worked across various eCommerce business models, categories, and company sizes. Peter co-founded and acted as President and Head of Sales for Cirrus10, a Web Content Management and Ecommerce Technology consultancy. Cirrus10 was acquired by Lucidworks in 2019. At Lucidworks he served as GM of Commerce, SVP Go to Market, and CRO. Peter then managed his own strategic consulting firm, implementing and tuning Constructor.io and OpenSearch. With 30 years of experience in enterprise technology, Peter has dedicated the last 15 years to enhancing product discovery across diverse industries, use cases, and platforms.

Suzie is a commercial strategy and operations executive who specializes in scaling growth for AI, retail and consumer goods companies. For the last twenty years, she has managed P&Ls for household brands at Kraft Foods and Dannon Yogurts, led GTM at LinkedIn and ad tech startups, and advised technology partners on customer data platform and AI solution GTM for Google Cloud. Her thought leadership on topics at the intersection of AI and retail, like color calibration in e-commerce and data-driven decision-making in retail, can be found at pocketsandlapels.medium.com