Headquarters:
3500 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montreal, QC H4C 1H2
Year founded:
1972
Number of employees:
300+
Phone:
604 603 2795
Email:
josh.lewis@veriforce.com
Website:
veriforce.ca
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/veriforce-canada
“Our goal is to help organizations move beyond administrative compliance and adopt a more proactive approach to workforce risk management. By providing greater visibility across contractors, worksites, and supply chains, we help companies make informed decisions, strengthen safety cultures, and create safer, more resilient operations”
Colby Lane, Veriforce
Colby Lane
Chief Executive Officer
Henriette Bichai
President, Veriforce Canada
Valentine Stach
Vice President, Client Success and Growth
Leadership
Colby Lane is a CEO and global leader in the safety and compliance solutions industry, now delivering services informed by the expertise of recognized brands such as ComplyWorks. He leads the company’s strategic growth, including acquisitions of ComplyWorks (2020), CHAS (2023), and WorkerPass (2023).
Previously CEO of PEC Safety, Lane guided its sale to Thoma Bravo and oversaw record growth. Following PEC’s merger with Veriforce in 2019, he unified the brand and accelerated global expansion.
Lane’s background includes roles as assistant US attorney and chief counsel to Governor Haley Barbour. He holds degrees from Stanford (MBA), Harvard (JD), and Millsaps College (BS).
Chief Executive Officer
Colby Lane
Henriette Bichai is president of Veriforce Canada, where she leads growth and post-merger integration strategies while ensuring alignment across teams and operations. With 20 years of experience in business transformation, growth and risk management, she has a strong track record of building high-performing teams, leading organizational change, and delivering measurable results.
Bichai’s leadership is grounded in a people-first approach that strengthens client trust, supports agility through change, and helps Canadian businesses reduce risk and operate with confidence.
President, Veriforce Canada
Henriette Bichai
Valentine Stach is vice president of client success & growth at Veriforce Canada, bringing more than 10 years of experience in digital product management, transformation and customer experience. She has held roles at organizations including IBM and Sodexo, where she led cross-functional initiatives to deliver user-centric solutions and drive business impact in complex, regulated environments. Known for her execution-focused and strategic mindset, she connects product, operations, and client needs.
At Veriforce Canada, Stach leads client success and growth across North America. She focuses on maximizing client value, strengthening retention, and enabling scalable growth through improved customer experience and measurable outcomes.
Vice President, Client Success and Growth
Valentine Stach
Paul Chaib
Chief Technology Officer
Paul Chaib is chief technology officer at Veriforce Canada, bringing more than 25 years of experience in software development, technology leadership, and innovation. Throughout his career, he has led engineering and R&D initiatives focused on building scalable technology solutions and high-performing development teams. Prior to joining Veriforce, he held senior technology leadership roles, including CTO at Cognibox, and co-founded Embvue.
At Veriforce Canada, Chaib leads technology strategy and engineering initiatives, overseeing the growth and the continued evolution of platforms such as ComplyWorks. Focusing on innovation, scalability, and the delivery of secure, high-performing solutions, he supports operational excellence and long-term growth.
Chief Technology Officer
Paul Chaib
Nicolas Eparvier
Vice President, Sales and Onboarding
Nicolas Eparvier is vice president of sales and onboarding at Veriforce Canada, where he leads the company’s growth strategy nationwide by helping organizations adopt smarter, more efficient approaches to contractor management through solutions such as ComplyWorks.
With more than 20 years of experience in software and technology, Eparvier has led growth, sales, and operations teams across North America and Europe. At Veriforce Canada, he leverages his expertise to deliver customer-centric solutions that help businesses modernize compliance and enhance workplace safety in highly regulated industries such as oil and gas. Recognized for his dynamic leadership, Eparvier helps clients achieve measurable results and long-term success.
Vice President, Sales and Onboarding
Nicolas Eparvier
Few endorsements in workplace safety carry the weight of a vote from the people who use a product every day. Veriforce Canada has earned that endorsement repeatedly.
Its ComplyWorks and SafeContractor Canada solutions have received Canadian Occupational Safety’s Readers’ Choice recognition in the Contractor Management Solutions category for 11 consecutive years, from 2016 through 2026. For a contractor risk management solution judged by the safety professionals who rely on it, that record speaks to consistency rather than a single strong year.
What safety professionals keep voting for
Behind the recognition sits the company’s core purpose of ensuring that every worker goes home safe at the end of the day. Veriforce Canada treats safety as a critical business function rather than an administrative box to tick, and its strength comes from combining technology, accredited health and safety expertise, and the largest network of contractor and client relationships in the country. The company connects more than 40,000 contractors and 500 hiring clients across Canada’s most critical industries, supported by more than 300 employees from coast to coast. This scale gives customers access not only to Canadian-built technology but also to market insights, best practices, and a community working to raise the standard for workplace safety.
The company’s approach to contractor risk management is designed for the realities of the Canadian market, where complex provincial regulations, evolving safety requirements, and diverse contractor networks make consistent oversight difficult.
Arnaud Barthelemy
Group Director, Product Marketing
Jennifer Lee
Vice President of Client Success
Shirel Stedman
Non-Executive Director
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Arnaud Barthelemy is group director, product marketing. He helps bridge customer needs, industry insights, and solutions across the Veriforce Canada portfolio, including ComplyWorks. With over 20 years of experience in global marketing leadership, he specializes in driving growth, innovation, and transformation.
Combining an international perspective with a strong understanding of Canadian markets, Barthelemy helps organizations interpret emerging trends and translate industry research into practical business strategies and technology solutions.
Director of Client Delivery
Arnaud Barthelemy
As VP of client success for LEAP Canada, Jennifer Lee’s main aim is to ensure that every client receives the highest quality of service following their initial implementation with LEAP. This includes helping firms become better acclimated with their new workflows and processes, establishing new best practices, and ensuring that their needs are met from every element of an account management perspective.
Vice President of Client Success
Jennifer Lee
Shirel Stedman is a non-executive director. She is also a fellow chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). Stedman brings over 30 years of experience as a civil engineer who has spent most of her career working on flood resilience, climate change and water issues across the public and private sectors.
Non-Executive Director
Shirel Stedman
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
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“Innovation at Veriforce is driven by a combination of customer insight, industry expertise, and in-house product and technology development. We maintain dedicated product and technology teams that continuously evolve our solutions based on the challenges our customers are facing today and the risks they are likely to face tomorrow”
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For hiring clients, gaps tend to appear where risk is hardest to monitor, particularly when contractor data is managed through spreadsheets, email chains and manual processes, regardless of contractor size. Veriforce Canada closes those gaps by helping organizations standardize contractor risk management, with bilingual support and expertise that understands regional regulations. This enables clients to manage risk consistently across the entire contractor lifecycle, from qualification and onboarding through ongoing compliance, learning, and performance management.
A connected approach to contractor risk
One of the company’s most important strategic moves has been building a connected ecosystem for contractor risk management. By bringing its solutions – ComplyWorks, SafeContractor Canada, SafeLearning, and SafeEmployee – together under Veriforce Canada, the company has expanded beyond traditional compliance. Its capabilities combine contractor qualification, learning, compliance, and risk intelligence, giving organizations greater visibility and the information they need to make more informed risk decisions. Guided by president Henriette Bichai, this transformation has helped evolve contractor risk management from a largely administrative process into a proactive, data-driven discipline.
This visibility is the outcome that Veriforce Canada’s customers value most. It is proof of assurance that workers are qualified, credentials and training are in place before work begins, and that risks are monitored consistently and supported by reliable information.
As Canada’s most critical industries continue to face evolving regulations and rising expectations around safety and sustainability, Veriforce Canada plans to keep investing in technology, data intelligence, AI-enabled insights, and the local expertise its customers depend on, with one goal unchanged: helping more workers return home safely.