Jean-François Gagné is a serial entrepreneur in the software industry. Until August 2015, he was was Chief Innovation Officer at JDA and Head of JDA Labs, a position he assumed after being Chief Product Officer at JDA, Vice President for the Center of Excellence, Advanced Analytics & Optimization at Red Prairie Corporation after leading, as CEO, the successful sale of Planora in July of 2012. As CEO at Planora, Jean-François has lead the company efforts to bring to market a highly disruptive SAAS solution in the extremely competitive Workforce Management Space, by combining a unique blend of user experience, A.I. / machine learning and operation research. Prior to joining Planora in 2007, he co-founded and served as the Director of Products of Logiweb, a leading custom Web Development firm in Quebec from 2002-2007, focusing on web-based analytics and decision support tools.