# Laurent Simoneau

> Laurent Simoneau is Coveo’s co-founder and CEO, returning to the chief executive role on April 1, 2025 after serving as president and CTO from 2011 to 2025. Previously CTO and COO at Copernic, he helped spin off its enterprise search division into Coveo in 2005. His work connects indexing, cloud delivery and the retrieval of enterprise knowledge for generative AI.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Coveo
- **Organizations:** Coveo, Copernic, Qohash (former board member, until May 2023)
- **Education:** Executive MBA, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Lévis campus, Cégep de Sainte-Foy
- **Known for:** Co-founded Coveo and orchestrated the 2005 enterprise search spin-off from Copernic., Led Coveo’s technology as president and CTO from 2011 to 2025., Recipient of UQAR’s 2017 Prix d’excellence des diplômés.

## Career timeline

- **1996** — Joined Copernic following studies in science and computing.
- **Before 2005** — Served as CTO and subsequently COO of Copernic.
- **2004-2011** — Initial CEO tenure as dated in Coveo’s corporate biography; the enterprise division spin-off followed in 2005.
- **2005** — Orchestrated Copernic’s enterprise search division spin-off and co-founded Coveo with Richard Tessier and Marc Sanfaçon.
- **2011-2025** — President and CTO of Coveo; Louis Têtu became CEO in July 2011.
- **2017** — Received UQAR’s alumni excellence award.
- **2023-05** — End of service on Qohash’s board, according to Coveo’s executive biography.
- **2025-04** — Returned as Coveo CEO, effective April 1.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Coveo and orchestrated the 2005 enterprise search spin-off from Copernic.
- Led Coveo’s technology as president and CTO from 2011 to 2025.
- Recipient of UQAR’s 2017 Prix d’excellence des diplômés.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Coveo announced on October 8 that Simoneau would co-host the October 29 fiscal Q2 2027 results call with Louis Têtu and Karine Hamel.
- **2026-09** — Coveo’s September news included the expansion of its Metcash partnership into conversational search for the AskROSS retailer communications portal.
- **2026-07** — Reported fiscal Q1 2027 results: US$37.4 million SaaS subscription revenue, US$38.5 million total revenue and US$5.8 million net loss; described a post-quarter customer expansion taking annualized SaaS subscription spending into eight figures.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lsimoneau/

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