About me

  • Name: Mercier, Carl
    Date of birth: May 23, 1979
    Place of residence: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Spoken & written languages: English, French
    Email: carl at carlmercier dot com
    Twitter: @cmercier

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Carl Mercier is a serial technology entrepreneur and developer from Montreal, Canada. His latest venture, Defensio, has attracted significant interest from worldwide blogger and developer communities and has exhibited superior filtering performance. Defensio was acquired by Websense Inc., a publicly-traded company in January 2009. Carl is now director of software development at Websense. Carl also founded Montreal on Rails, a developer community group that brings together local Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for monthly gatherings. Prior to founding Defensio, Carl started Adonis Technologies, a company that built advanced management software for the tourism & recreation industry. It was acquired in 2006. Carl holds degrees in business management and sound engineering. He also pretends to be able to beat just about anyone at poker.

Work Experience

  • Websense, inc., director of software development, 2009-…
  • Karabunga, inc. (Defensio.com), founder & CEO, 2006-2009 (acquired by Websense)
  • AjaxWhois.com, founder, 2005-2008 (acquired)
  • AdonisTech Corporation, founder & CEO, 1998-2006 (acquired)
  • MyBinaries.com (Usenet provider), founder, 2002-2004 (acquired)
  • BinCrawler.com (Usenet search engine), founder, 2002-2003 (acquired)
  • Steelwave Studios (recording studio), founder, 1995-1998

Startups I’m currently advising

  • DokDok
  • Stealth startup
  • Stealth startup

Education