Three Shopify executives are set to depart their roles from the company.
Jean-Michel Lemieux, the chief technology officer of Shopify, and chief talent officer Brittany Forsyth have announced on Twitter they are stepping down from their roles in the coming months. Chief legal officer Joe Frasca is also set to step down, according to a report from the Ottawa Business Journal, which noted that all three execs will end their tenures in June. A Shopify spokesperson confirmed the departures to BetaKit.
The latest departures come approximately six months after another major executive shuffle at Shopify.
Shopify published a statement from CEO Tobias Lütke on the executive departures Wednesday, highlighting the accomplishments of Lemieux, Forsyth, and Frasca.
Shopify, Technovation take women in STEM partnership global
With the help of global tech education non-profit Technovation, Shopify has increased its young women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) training ambitions, boosting the program’s efforts in Canada and expanding it to four other countries.
Shopify’s expanded partnership aims to serve over 400 girls in Canada, and at least 2,000 across the United States, Ireland, Germany, Brazil by shifting their attitudes towards STEM. With the move, the Canadian company has become the second North American retail giant to set its sights on youth tech training in less than a week, after Amazon recently announced a $3 million CAD investment in computer science education in Canada.