Managing Partner, Monessor
More than twenty years where technology, product and governance meet, including more than fifteen at TMX Group. He now advises leaders of SMEs and regulated financial institutions on the technology decisions that commit the business.
Biography
Alex Turcotte is Managing Partner of Services-conseils Monessor inc., a Montréal strategic IT management advisory practice. He advises SMEs and regulated financial institutions on modernization, governance, risk management and AI adoption.
For more than twenty years, he has worked where technology, product and governance meet. He spent more than fifteen years at TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montréal Exchange among others, an environment where platforms are critical and regulation is demanding. There he held technology and product leadership roles, with full responsibility for digital products used by key capital markets participants. He also led business technology globally for Maples Group’s fiduciary and fund services, and the IT function of Targray, a fast-growing international SME.
That experience shapes his approach: technology only creates value when it serves clear, shared and well-understood needs, and governance does not have to be the enemy of speed.
He works alongside leadership teams to clarify priorities, keep risk under control and turn technology decisions into business results, with a calm, structured and pragmatic style that is particularly useful in times of transition, modernization or growth. He works in French and English.
Career
Today
Services-conseils Monessor inc., Montréal. Strategic IT management advisory for SMEs and regulated financial services. Every engagement is led personally by Alex Turcotte.
Discover Monessor →Capital markets · more than fifteen years
Interim Chief Technology Officer of TSX Trust, OSFI-regulated trust and transfer agency services: led 25 professionals and platforms serving more than one million shareholders, and defined a $70M modernization program whose first phase was approved by the board. Earlier, owned digital products for capital markets clients, including the first secure web application connected to the Montréal Exchange derivatives trading engine.
Fiduciary and fund services
Global responsibility for the platforms, delivery and technology strategy of Maples FS (fiduciary, fund and private client services), leading a 45-person organization, for critical systems in a regulated environment.
Fast-growing international SME
Trusted advisor to senior leadership, responsible for end-to-end IT strategy and operations through rapid international growth. First global IT strategy, roadmap and governance, with a monthly steering committee alongside the CEO.
Expertise
Alignment with OSFI expectations, including Guidelines B-10 (Third-Party Risk Management), B-13 (Technology and Cyber Risk Management) and E-23 (Model Risk Management).
Monessor’s financial services offer →Maturity assessment, roadmap, vendor selection and fractional IT leadership, to govern technology with the same rigour as finances.
Monessor’s offers for SMEs →Choosing between rebuilding, replacing and maintaining a system: a business trade-off before it is an engineering decision.
Governing the adoption of AI and models: inventory, accountability, validation and monitoring, in proportion to risk.
Publications
September 14, 2026
Technology in SMEs: From Cost Centre to Strategic AssetAugust 17, 2026
The Illusion of Risk-Free Innovation in Financial Services: Why Governance Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of SpeedAugust 7, 2026
The Replatforming Fable: Why System Modernization Is a Business Trade-off, Not Just an Engineering Decision
Alex Turcotte works with organizations through Monessor, which presents its offers, its approach and meeting booking.