Executive Bios
Christian Laforte, President & CEO
Christian is the President and CEO of Feeling Software. He founded the company in 2005 with his brother Guillaume after obtaining a decade of experience in the software engineering and 3D graphics industry.
Since beginning his career in this field working for a video gaming company at age 17, Christian has held progressive roles at top companies in the high-tech and software arenas. In 2004, as Director of R&D for Dakis Decision Systems, Christian led a team in creating e-commerce solutions that combined artificial intelligence, 3D, speech and mobile platforms, and scalable databases. Prior to this, Christian developed 3D graphics software at industry leading companies such as ATI Research (now AMD) in Boston, Massachusetts, Alias (now Autodesk) in Toronto, Ontario, and Sanyo Electric in Osaka, Japan. Christian was also fortunate enough to share in an Academy Award in 2002 as he led a team at Alias in developing a hardware-accelerated 3D graphics renderer in Maya.
Christian holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
Richard Singer, Vice President of Business Development
As Vice President of Business Development, Richard’s responsibilities focus on growing and developing sales opportunities for Feeling Software’s security related products. Richard has a successful history of developing key partner and re-seller relationships, management and customer relations. Richard holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Marketing from Concordia University in Montreal.
Alexandre Leclerc, Managing Director - Middle East
As the Managing Director for the Middle-East, Alexandre is in charge of all related business in the region, from strategic alliances and sales, to integration.
A pioneer of broadcast-quality, real-time 3D graphics, Alexandre began his career in the lat 1990's as a graphic designer and programmer for VertigoXMedia (later acquired by Miranda Technologies). Several years later in 2006, Alexandre started his own company, Astucemedia. Based in Montreal, Canada, Astucemedia was the first company focused on 3D Real-Time broadcast graphics offering artistic and technical services around the globe. Astucemedia’s cutting-edge work quickly attracted worldwide clients such as ABC, CBS, FOX, AlJazeera, MBC, Bloomberg, TF1, NDTV. This quality client list, along with his deep knowledge of 3D software, make Alexandre ideally suited to lead Feeling Software’s growth in the Middle East region.
Alexandre’s education includes studies in 3D and Multimedia at Interdec, Computer Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and Computer Science and Management at UQAM.
Guillaume Laforte, Vice President of R&D
As co-founder and Vice-President of Research & Development, Guillaume leads the engineering team and is at the helm of Feeling Software’s research efforts. Guillaume’s responsibilities include project management and planning, as well as software engineering. Guillaume possesses a strong background in software development in the video game industry, having held roles at Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Alias (now Autodesk).
Guillaume holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Joshua Koopferstock, Director of Marketing
As Director of Marketing, Joshua's responsibilities include overseeing communications and product management. A geek at heart, Joshua possesses a background in marketing and finance. He is the co-inventor of one filed patent application.
Joshua holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from McGill University