Étienne Mérineau is an entrepreneur, marketer, investor, and speaker. As the co-founder of Heyday AI, he turned a napkin sketch into a $60M CAD exit in four short years. He's held a variety of customer-facing and investor-facing roles, from CEO to CRO to CPO and CMO, helping scale the business to 120 employees at its peak.

Mérineau is a "business storyteller." His biggest strength is his ability to crystallize and synthesize a company's vision and value proposition and turn them into a compelling story that resonates and sells. Prior to his work at Heyday, he spent nearly a decade building world-class brands on the advertising agency side (x-Dentsu, Sid Lee, McCann, Cossette), earning more than 60 marketing and advertising awards in the process.

Throughout his career, his products and insights have been featured in more than 100 top-tier publications, including Forbes, Techcrunch, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Vogue Business, etc. Additionally, he is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum.

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