Paul Vallée (born 1972) is a Canadian data specialist and businessperson. He is the founder and

Chief Executive Officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

Tehama Inc. Tehama ( ) is a Canadian Software as a Service (SaaS) company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that provides a virtual, cloud-based, Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform for the secure exchange of work over the internet, allowing organizatio ...

, a company offering a secure virtual-workforce platform in a

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paradigm. Vallée holds a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

. He started his career as a data scientist and continued as a systems architect; by the age of 25 (1997), he had started his fourth company — database infrastructure management, architecture, and performance outsourcing company,

Pythian Pythian Services Inc., commonly known as Pythian, is a US & Canadian multinational corporation that provides data and cloud-related services. The company provides services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra and other databases ...

. He received the Ottawa Forty Under 40 award from the ''

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'' in 2011, an award that recognizes the achievements of forty business people under the age of forty. In 2014, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pythian. In the same year, he was awarded the Trudeau Medal from the Telfer School of Management of the

. This recognizes the leadership, initiative, and contributions of Telfer alumni to the business world, the community, and their alma mater. In 2016, the Canadian Women in Communications and Technology organization awarded Vallée the Diversity Champion Award for " avingpublicly spoken out against the 'bro culture'" in the technology industry, and for " avingmade Pythian the first Canadian company to release its gender statistics and set clear goals to recruit more capable women." In 2019, Vallée led the evolution of a new company, Tehama, from Pythian, based on

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and

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technologies developed and employed at the latter company. He is CEO of Tehama, and continues to sit on Pythian's board of directors. Vallée is a proponent of

Basic Income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of a ...

. He serves on the board of directors for the Basic Income Canada Network, Canada's national basic income advocacy organization. In the early phases of the

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, Vallée publicly argued for greater pandemic preparedness in businesses and organizations, with special regard to

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strategies and policies. Vallée also advocates for a Canadian national data strategy. In this pursuit, he has published with the

Centre for International Governance Innovation The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, pronounced "see-jee") is an independent, non-partisan think tank on global governance. CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral ...

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