# Jean Belanger

> Jean Belanger is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebri AI, an Austin- and Toronto-based artificial intelligence and data engineering company he started in 2016. A serial entrepreneur with a career spanning finance, semiconductors, and software, he previously ran Metrowerks (maker of the CodeWarrior developer tools acquired by Motorola) and Reddwerks (a supply-chain data science firm serving Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, and Lowe's). At Cerebri AI he created Cerebri Values, a system that quantifies a customer's commitment to a brand and predicts the next best action, and has more recently focused the company on analytics for corporate travel spend and ESG reporting.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Cerebri AI
- **Organizations:** Cerebri AI, Reddwerks, Metrowerks, Motorola, Wood Gundy (CIBC World Markets), PwC, Capital Factory
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** M.Sc. in Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), B. Comm., University of Ottawa
- **Known for:** Created Cerebri Values, described as the industry's first universal measure of customer success, Led Metrowerks CodeWarrior, named Software Product of the Year by MacWorld (beating over 3,500 applications), Took Metrowerks public on NASDAQ before its acquisition by Motorola

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Began at PwC, working in Ottawa and Paris
- **1980s-90s** — VP of Investment Banking at Wood Gundy (CIBC World Markets); lead underwriter for three of Canada's four largest public companies, helping raise over US$4B
- **1990s** — Chairman and CEO of Metrowerks, maker of CodeWarrior; took it public on NASDAQ
- **1999** — Metrowerks acquired by Motorola; Belanger becomes VP of business development for the semiconductor business unit
- **2005** — Founded Reddwerks, a data science supply-chain software company in Austin
- **2010** — Reddwerks named Austin's fastest-growing company by the Austin Business Journal
- **2015** — Reddwerks acquired by Dematic
- **2016** — Co-founded and became CEO of Cerebri AI
- **2019** — Cerebri AI raised a Series B (last raised December 2019)

## Achievements

- Created Cerebri Values, described as the industry's first universal measure of customer success
- Led Metrowerks CodeWarrior, named Software Product of the Year by MacWorld (beating over 3,500 applications)
- Took Metrowerks public on NASDAQ before its acquisition by Motorola
- Founded Reddwerks, whose customers included Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, and Lowe's
- As an investment banker, was lead underwriter for three of Canada's four largest public companies, raising over US$4B
- Filed 24 patents
- Finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Austin)

## Latest updates

- **2019-12** — Cerebri AI closed its most recent funding, a Series B round
- **2022** — Belanger continued publishing interviews and op-eds on customer experience, AI, and later business travel ROI

## Links

- Website: https://cerebriai.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannbelanger
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Cerebri
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXMYkRKQTY
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/people/InterplX-Expense-Management/100068591964765/

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Last updated: 2026-07-16