Christopher Thierry,  Chairman & CEO

 

Christopher is a successful entrepreneur who helps and invests in companies to accelerate vision, strategy, culture and operational alignment. 

 

Prior to founding Rated R Group, he spent 20 years as the president & co- founder behind Cimpl, an enterprise SaaS company that managed billions of dollars of technology spending on behalf of large companies. Cimpl was acquired by Upland Software (NASDAQ: UPLD) in 2019. 

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Cimpl went from a technology start-up to one of North America's leading providers of enterprise asset and expense management software. In the process, Christopher built an award winning culture and was a 2018 winner of Telecom CEO of the Year.

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As a frequent speaker, author, and quoted expert, he has been featured in many prominent national and international publications on the topics of enterprise asset management, mobility, entrepreneurship and corporate culture.

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He holds a Bachelor degree in Management Information Systems and Marketing from John Molson School of Business at Concordia University and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur’s Masters Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for founders of high growth companies. He also completed London Business School's exclusive 5 year, Presidents Leadership Programme in 2019.  

 

Christopher is a contributing member of the Young Presidents Organization(YPO) and is an investor with Anges Quebec.  He also volunteers as a mentor & speaker with McGill University's Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship.

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