Sébastien Forget
Canada
Sébastien Forget
Canada
Sébastien is an entrepreneur and an engineer with extensive experience in the IT sector, specialising in CRM, online sales and marketing. He started his career by joining Universal Fundraising Group which later became eFundraising.com. His first mandate as CIO was to develop the platform that would be used for online fundraising that millions of Americans would end up using -and still use today. eFundraising.com was acquired in 2002 by a Silicon Valley company at which point Sébastien was keep on board. He had the mandate of giving the platform he created the momentum it needed to become the successful platform it is today as well as overseeing the implementation within hundreds of schools in the USA. In 2003, Reader’s Digest took control of eFundraising.com. Sébastien stayed on board and furthered the development centre by overseeing several critical business units such as sales and online marketing.
Sébastien’s continued desire for entrepreneurship led him to launch Solutions Metrix, an IT firm specialised in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. As of 2008, Solutions Metrix was managing hundreds of CRMs in central and eastern Canada and continues to offer CRM services to numerous Fortune 500 companies. Solutions Metrix is seeing yearly growth by following its mission to help Canadian companies be more competitive with regards to their sales and marketing.