About

BrainBank's mission is to help firms motivate and facilitate innovation, in order to achieve superior, measurable, and sustainable improvement in financial performance. We deliver the state of the art in idea and innovation management, combining a powerful technological platform with implementation assistance tailored to the unique needs of client organizations.

BrainBank began in 1999 as an online suggestion box, morphed into an idea management system, and from there rapidly evolved into a full-scale innovation management platform. BrainBank has since remained on the the industry's cutting edge, introducing many major advances in idea management theory and social engineering design. This leadership position allowed us to realize our vision of a flexible, enterprise-scale open innovation workflow, that uses distributed tasking and on-demand expertise to grow great ideas from fuzzy inceptions to solid, actionable projects.

Our Idealink(TM) technology is in use by companies on a planetary scale: international operations integrate seamlessly into the same application, while maintaining the diverse processes and languages that define and enrich a global enterprise's cultural DNA.

BrainBank has been self-financed, profitable and privately-held since day one. Our team is comprised of highly knowledgeable management consultants and technologists, all of whom have the benefit of extensive, hands-on innovation process experience. The best practices acquired over a decade of implementations at Fortune 500 companies are crystallized in BrainBank's solutions offering. BrainBank also relies on the strength of select partnerships, including Microsoft, EDS, Maritz and Verizon.

Management

Andre Laurin - Founder and CEO

Prior to founding BrainBank Inc., Andre was Canadian Marketing Manager for Computer Associates. He went on to join Saint-Louis based Maritz Inc., whose Performance Improvement Division specialized in suggestion programs. There, he helped implement suggestion programs for global companies involved in consumer products, financial services, retailing, transportation, manufacturing, steel production and healthcare.

Karell Ste-Marie - Co-Founder and CIO

Prior to co-founding BrainBank Inc., Karell was Lead Developer at System V, a leading software application provider. He went on to become a Director of MIS and CTO at a CTI DataCom, an international Technology Infrastructure Provider. Karell earned his designation as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Certified Professional + Internet.

The Team

Process implementation - The BrainBank Inc. process implementation team is comprised of innovation process specialists. Each has hands-on expertise in process design, task planning, template & forms design, workflow design, process role training, internal communications, incentive structures, metrics calibration, report design and performance analysis. All have significant experience in employee, customer and supplier idea & innovation systems. BrainBank implementations also benefit from the resources, skills and counsel of our Advisory Board.

Technology implementation - The BrainBank Inc. technology implementation team is comprised of innovation systems software and technology specialists. The combined skill set includes hands-on expertise in graphic design, web page design, electronic document design, database architecture, workflow logistics, metrics development, dynamic report design, access control, database administration, network management, .NET/Web Services and application hosting.

Certifications - BrainBank developers all carry one of the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD).

Partners