21 years of Consulting and System Integrators

Professional engineer with strong entrepreneurial skills, Vincent Fraser is the co-founder and CEO of Processia, a Laval (Quebec, Canada) company specializing in the integration of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) business solutions with a suite of services combining consulting, integration and managed services.

Graduated in 1998 from Polytechnique Montréal, Vincent Fraser began his career as a consultant before co-founding Processia in 2000. Initially responsible for business development, he thereafter worked as Vice-president of PLM solutions where, with the help of a dedicated team, accelerated the development of the PLM expertise of Processia with new offers and markets, and eventually became its CEO in 2011. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation and has implemented an ambitious growth plan achieving an average annual growth rate of 20% with, among others, the establishment of Processia in the United States, France, and the UK. Today Processia has six offices worldwide, a team of nearly 300 people and helps innovative companies in the automotive, aerospace, energy, consumer packaged goods, and life sciences industries to optimize and transform their business with PLM.

Pierre Bernier is Vice-President of Finance and Corporate Services with Processia. He is specialized in Mergers & Acquisition and financing and has led deals both on the buy side or sales, Recognized as a strong negotiator with a deep understanding of operations, performance measurement and legal services. He serves on the board of Place Des Arts, he sat on the Board of Directors of SODEC from 2009 to 2013, where he held the positions of Vice-President of the Board of Directors and President of the Audit Committee. He was President of the Consultative Committee of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP) and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the West Island of Montreal Chamber of Commerce. In the business community, he previously served as CEO of JJ Buckley Fine Wines, CEO of Intelligent Cellars Inc., Executive Vice-President, Operations with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), Vice-President, Finance and Administration of Airborne Entertainment Inc., and Vice-President, CFO and corporate services of Yellow Pages Group.

Guillaume Jacquemin is the Managing Director, Benelux & the Nordics region.

As an automotive engineer by training, Guillaume has started his career in 1997 as a PLM consultant at Renault cars in France. In 2003, he joined Renault Formula One in ENSTONE, UK, as PLM Project Manager and became CIO of the F1 team in 2005.

He came back to France after the economic crisis in 2009, working for 18 months at Sogeti High Tech, a Capgemini Business unit, and then was called by Vincent Fraser to lead Processia’s newly created French entity growth.

As an expert, Guillaume has experience in large projects, PLM practices and deep knowledge of the French and British Markets.

Pascal is led by 3 passions : Business, Innovation and People. He graduated as “Mechanical and Manufacturing Processes” Engineer in 1993 and got a Master in “Computer Sciences” the following year.

He started his career developing PDM/PLM software. With this technical background he embraced all challenges proposed to him evolving in almost all roles in our space : Product manager, R&D Manager, Business Consultant, Practice Leader, Sales representative, Global Service Sales Leader, Sales Manager, Technical-Sales Director, Sales Manager, VP of Sales and Marketing.

He spent 25+ years in the software and service sectors, and worked for the main players in the Digital Transformation domains (IBM/Dassault Systèmes; Autodesk; PTC…). He was involved with customers in almost all industries and developed a strong business acumen. He led global teams and delivered global quota reaching up to 3 digits in millions euros annual revenues.

Pascal has both the European and North America culture. He was born in France and he is now based in Montreal (Québec). With a strong engagement on the Industry 4.0, he joined Processia on September 2019, acting as “Vice President Global Sales and Marketing” and is now moving to a new role with a mission to develop new business in North America as Vice President, NAM Operations.

Mechanical Engineer with unique blend of Automotive Industry processes knowledge and PLM Solutions, Santosh Kulkarni leads Processia’s India team as Managing Director and is responsible for the Global Delivery.

Santosh completed his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune, India in Year 1996 and thereafter started his career with Automotive giant Tata Motors. Before formally becoming part of Processia’s family, through a strategic acquisition of NobleTek PLM, Santosh helped NobleTek PLM establish its strong foothold in EURASIA. He spent most of his career in International market working with leading automotive companies including Volvo In Sweden. Through his right exposure to Indian and International market, Santosh has gain excellent know-how related to Global Delivery management, right Sourcing and Offshoring. He has working exposure to France, Germany, China , Italy , Sweden , UK and United States and vast working experience in Indian and Nordics market. He focuses on Global Delivery centre in Pune and under his leadership the India team has reached to 125 mark with aggressive target of 250 to be cross by End of Year.

Benjamin Gonzalez began his career 20 years ago at NUVIA (VINCI Group) bringing his expertise on Consulting and Nuclear Engineering. Next he embraced a new challenge, joining Adecco Group as “Director of the Engineering and IT Business Unit”, where he implemented new organic growth strategies leading to the success of a team of more than 60 people.
His success interested Capgemini, which offered him several complex assignments moving from the role of “Business Development Manager Engineering France” to that of “Chief of Staff / in house strategy Consultant for CEO” and finally assuming the position of “Practice Head”.
Before joining PROCESSIA France, Benjamin worked at Dassault Systèmes within the organization in charge of "Alliances with Partners" in the role of "Global Alliance Executive".

With close to two decades of experience in implementing PLM for auto, industrial equipment and high-tech manufacturers from Europe, Asia and North America, Bala is focused on successfully delivering end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management systems for our customers in the UK.

An engineer by education, Bala started his career in 1997 with TVS Sundram Fasteners Ltd, a leading auto-component manufacturer in India. To widen his horizon, he then did his MBA in General Management. Passionate in leveraging information technology for engineering, in 2001, he joined the then fledgling PLM practice of a consulting company as one of its founding consultants. Since then he has worked on more than 10 large PLM programmes as the lead consultant and project manager, across the world. In 2004, he initiated and led a joint software development project with MatrixOne inc, USA to design, develop and sell a solution to manage information exchange between engineering and manufacturing teams in organisations. In 2006, he moved to France to lead the PLM business of Tech Mahindra in Europe. Currently he is based out of Coventry, UK leading Processia’s business in the UK.

An engineer by trade, Pierre started his career in project management for a major EPC, the SNC Group, where he held various progressive positions in heavy industries projects.

Thereafter, he had the opportunity of implementing project management standards in the software development industry. As a Project Manager for M3i Systems, Pierre successfully led the delivery of mission critical systems. Pierre then join HydroSoft Energy, a start-up specialized in real time systems for hydro power management.

In 2000, Pierre was in the team that led the establishment of Dassault Systems Industry Service North America. There, as an Operations Manager for the Auto & Aero sectors, he directed the merger, alignment, and operation of 5 operational units. In 2003, he was tasked to create a new business unit dedicated to the Energy domain. In 2007, he was appointed Knowledge Center Director, a business unit significantly involved in the Boeing 787 Program. During his tenure at DS, Pierre was renowned for the development of people skills and the management of motivated and efficient teams.

Appointed as General Manager of Simoneau in 2013, a manufacturer of boiler room systems, Pierre led the business transformation, driving up value creation, boosting revenue and efficiency.

Omkar is a seasoned IT professional with more than 15 years of experience in managing IT business functions. He has got a diverse experience in domains like Software Development, Healthcare, Service and the Support industry. He has been accomplished with global certification as ITIL, Microsoft, VMWare, and not just limited to IT security compliance.

He has demonstrated his leadership by successfully carrying out the implementation of various system transformations while leading many subjects in parallel. His understanding of technologies and what is required for data security acts as a catalyst for Processia in integrating infrastructure and applications with the new Atos platform.
He has been instrumental in setting IT policies and governance requirements relating to business technology, particularly when it comes to risk and cybersecurity.

Priya Joannet has over 15 years of experience, overseeing international employee resources and talent, implementing strategies to help the company scale, trust-building. She has demonstrated extensive knowledge and understanding in a highly engineered environment where a deep understanding of critical business drivers was required in multiple markets & industries.

She is a transformational leader driving sustainable people and culture, focussing on employees’ experience in engaging work environments for continued growth. She brings tremendous energy and passion to her work, with a people-centric leadership approach and her highest self is always focussed on co-constructing diversity, inclusion and building a great place to belong, and more.

She has shown her ability to lead under uncertainties, rally people towards a common goal with tremendous care and focus on both individuals and business success.

With more than 10 years of experience in B2B and B2C marketing, Élodie has worked for businesses in technology (IT), real estate and marketing/communication agencies including FX Innovation, SherWeb and DuProprio.

Fueled by strong intrapreneurship skills, she loves finding effective solutions to meet business challenges with a focus on increasing her organisations' awareness and growth on a national and international scale.

She has managed different teams of marketing experts to develop and execute many digital marketing strategies, such as lead generation campaigns, Web (SEO), and social media content strategies. Élodie is also experienced in positioning, branding, go-to-market, events and client experience improvement strategies.​​​​​​​

Highly organized, super creative and wholeheartedly invested in her work, Élodie knows how to collaborate and surround herself with the right people to create team synergies and move mountains!