Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie is the Vice President of Engineering at Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian financial services innovator. Wealthsimple makes affordable financial products available to everyone, regardless of their age, net-worth, background or education.

Prior to joining Wealthsimple’s executive team, she established Lever’s first R&D teams outside of San Francisco, to build the world’s most collaborative recruiting platform. By adopting inclusive practices, she built a team in which 40% of engineers identify as women or non-binary. Prior to Lever, Dominique created and grew successful teams at Shopify and Blackberry QNX and held various roles at IBM and several startups. On weekends, you can find Dominique creating experimental recipes with whole grains and teaching her kids and others how and why to eat more healthy fiber!