Luc Roy is the Associate Vice President of IT (CIO) for Laurentian University since 2010. As CIO, Luc is responsible for all on-campus digital infrastructure and digital operation for the university. In 1987, Luc graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Luc started his career in Ottawa then moved to Silicon Valley for 8 years, and 7 years in Toronto (total of 6 startups) with positions from director to vice-president in Product Management and Marketing. More recently, Luc Roy initiated and co-led the ON-CHEC collaboration that offers a shared Chief Information Security Officer for Ontario Universities and Colleges. Luc survived 3 cyber incidents at Laurentian University.
Director of Product Marketing for Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks), Director of Marketing for Greenfield Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at Extreme Networks. He continued to work in the computer networking industry in Toronto as Vice President – Product Planning for Chantry Networks Inc. (acquired by Siemens), Vice President – Wireless Strategy for Siemens Enterprise Communications, Vice President – Market Management for Siemens Canada, Vice President – Wireless Strategy for Enterasys Networks (acquired by Extreme Networks) and Vice President – Product Management and Marketing for BlueCat Networks.