Philippe Desaulniers was named Head of Hockey Analytics Technology in July 2022.

A graduate of Polytechnique Montréal, Philippe Desaulniers has been a professional in the technology space for over 25 years, working on early AI applications in mining, and getting involved in the Montreal technology hubs of aerospace and telecommunications, before moving on to the world of large-scale data analysis.

After several years of developing analytics software and artificial intelligence systems at Averna and Radialpoint, Desaulniers took on the challenge of the startup world, teaming up with the founders of Sportlogiq. There, he combined bleeding edge AI with the pioneering approaches of hockey analytics, led the engineering of the startup's core technology, and created a revolutionary hockey data analytics system that, in the span of a few years, became the de facto standard advanced statistics tool for NHL teams.