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300 301 “The business grew slowly. First, we moved from the garage to a sub-location with another company.We rented a one-room office in their building with four people sitting in it. Then we moved from office to office until we are now in our headquarters in Montreal, with about 200 people on the floor and 300 more on the client side. Our ambition was to use what we’d learned working for bigger corporations but do things differently, to make sure our employees were properly taken care of, so they could perform to the maximum and clients would be satisfied with their services. And we’ve built on that over 16 years.” Marotte: “We currently help clients in Ontario, Western Canada, Boston, New York, and the Que- bec region, but most of the work is done from our Montreal offices.We have five divisions: one is consulting. And we’re very strong in cloud integra- tion space, and one of the leading service mount integrators in Eastern Canada.We also do digital application development. And, lastly, managed services –managing infrastructure and hardware and servers for clients from our 24/7 operations center. “At the time we founded FX, we were work- ing for large, publicly traded companies, and we found that, sometimes, the short-term decisions you make to help the stock go up, has a long- term negative impact. So, George and I said, ‘let’s FX INNOVATION We pride ourselves on having a healthy work environment, where people can express their talent. We’ve built a company where people feel great and can perform to the best of their potential. DAVID MAROTTE FX INNOVATIONS PRESIDENT show these big guys that an innovative, creative bunch of people can get together and make decisions based on what’s best for the clients, what’s best for employees.’ That’s where the name comes from– the ‘innovation’ in FX Innovation stands for always being different in the way we do things; the way we talk to our clients; the way we recruit and onboard employees; the way we build our solutions. If we’re not different, we don’t want to do it. “We pride ourselves on having a healthy work environment, where people can express their talent. Locally, we’re very well known for our distinctive culture.We eliminated closed offices, we have constant communication, and very little hierarchy.We’ve built a company where