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David Proulx

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Chief Product Officer at SkyWatch
📍 Canada

David Proulx is the Chief Product Officer at SkyWatch, leveraging over 20 years of experience in technology leadership from roles at FLIR Systems and BlackBerry. A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, he is a product leader with deep expertise in unmanned systems and remote sensing. Colleagues describe him as driven, visionary, and a strategic powerhouse.

David is deeply involved in the Waterloo technology scene as an active early-stage investor and a strong proponent for the local tech cluster. He gives back to his community by serving as an executive mentor and business coach for early-stage startups at the Laurier LaunchPad, his alma maters innovation hub.

While at BlackBerry, he led the launch of BBM on iOS and Android, which resulted in over 10 million new subscribers within 24 hours.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Chief Product Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Canada
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Earth Observation
As CPO of SkyWatch, his mission is to make geospatial data and high-resolution aerial imagery easily accessible for developers and enterprise applications.
Unmanned Systems (UAS)
He has extensive experience in the drone industry from his time as a VP-level product leader at both Aeryon Labs and FLIR Systems.
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Career

Work history

1-2022
Chief Product Officer
SkyWatch
3-2019 - 1-2022
Vice President, Product Management, UIS
FLIR Systems
12-2014 - 3-2019
Vice President, Product and Marketing
Aeryon Labs Inc
5-2014 - 12-2014
Executive Mentor
Laurier LaunchPad
7-2012 - 6-2014
Senior Director, BBM Business Development
RIM
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Education
2005 - 2005
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University of Waterloo
1998 - 2001
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
Wilfrid Laurier University
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