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

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of Tehama Inc., a company offering a secure virtual-workforce platform in a

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paradigm.

Life and career

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

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. 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. 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

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. 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

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. 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

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References

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