John Vandermay Joins Lightspeed as CTO
John Vandermay is joining Lightspeed as the company’s new chief technology officer.
Vandermay sports over 25 years of software engineering and leadership experience. He is coming to Montreal-based Lightspeed from his former company Visto, an adtech company based in New York City that received backing from Accel and iNovia. Vandermay served as the CTO for Visto as well, overseeing the transformation of the company from an advertising media service provider to a technology platform by building a SaaS enterprise that could operate between several types of technologies.
“I am thrilled to join Lightspeed during this significant period of global growth and work alongside the team to advance development,” said Vandermay. “Lightspeed is a team of innovators, whose renowned advancements in omnichannel and POS technology allows restaurants, retail entrepreneurs, and business owners to seamlessly grow and manage their businesses.”
Before Visto, Vandermay worked as the VP of product development at Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA for three years where he oversaw global engineering and product management. As the new CTO, Vandermay will also curate a blog series entitled Lightspeed talks.
“It’s incredible to welcome John back to Canada and into our Lightspeed community, at the height of growth in our development sector. John’s extensive experience in software engineering and product development will make him an invaluable asset to the Lightspeed team,” said Lightspeed Founder and CEO Dax Dasilva. “As a Canadian company, we’re proud to be part of an innovative network of technology companies that are attracting top industry talent back to Canada.”
Lightspeed is a cloud-based point-of-sale solution for small businesses, both in-store and online. Nearly 50,000 retailers in and restaurant owners in 100 countries use the platform to process close to $20 billion in transactions every year.
It has been a good year for Lightspeed—the company closed a $207 million Series D funding found in the middle of October.
