Diederik van Liere

Diederik van Liere is the Chief Technology Officer at Wealthsimple, a money management platform that serves millions of Canadians and holds over $30 billion in assets. He is a technology leader who has built impactful data science and engineering teams for global brands at scale. He joined Wealthsimple in 2018 as Head of Data Science and Engineering and assumed the role of Chief Technology officer in March 2023. Prior to joining Wealthsimple, Diederik built complex data pipelines and infrastructure as the Director of Data Science at Shopify. He also helped build the data platform at the Wikimedia Foundation (the custodian of Wikipedia and sister projects). Diederik holds a PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, in the area of complex networks and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.