Our team

WPred was founded by Dr. Christophe Sibuet Watters, an engineer with 20 years of experience in the wind industry sector, and a specialist in numerical modeling of wind turbines and atmospheric flow. He has worked in several R&D institutions, as well as consultant for the wind energy sector.

Thomas-Antoine O'Neill leads software development efforts at WPred. With tons of enterprise software experience under his belt, he teamed up with WPred four years ago to build WPlanif: an innovative calendar web application that helps wind farm maintenance teams schedule their work while taking wind power forecasts into account.

Jean Clary holds a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the University of Quebec in Rimouski. With a significant academic background in fluid mechanics (Paul Sabatier University) and in meteorology (Meteo-France), he provides operational support to our clients and works to refine and develop our forecasting models.

Dominic Alain holds a master's degree in atmospheric sciences. He is WPred's lead meteorologist and first point of contact for our airport clients.

Our alumni

Louis-Etienne Boudreault holds a Ph.D. in Wind Energy from Denmark Technical University and is specialized in renewable energy meteorology (resource assessment and forecasting). He has pursued an international career in both academic and commercial sectors before joining WPred in 2022 as a technical and commercial developer. He is now working since Fall 2024 for ELVO, a manufacturer of batteries for renewables wind energy applications

Lina Elfekair worked between 2021 and 2023 at WPred. With a degree in Earth and atmospheric science (meteorology concentration) from the University of Quebec in Montreal, she provided operational support to our clients by organizing briefings or issuing weather warnings. She has also produced several information videos for use by our clients.

Richard Diamond holds a college diploma in computer science from Cégep André-Laurendeau. First working as an intern, then as a full-time employee, Richard worked at WPred between 2017 and 2022 to become a full-stack developer. He has worked to develop our cloud computing infrastructure to meet tomorrow's needs and continues to provide consulting services to WPred.

Olivia Beauregard-Harvey is a graduate of Polytechnique Montréal and has been working for WPred between 2016 and 2022. In addition to developing WPred' business, she contributed to significant improvements of our forecasting techniques in wind energy by reforcing our predictive capacities both in short-term (nowcasting) or very long-term (seasonal forecasting). Still involved in the renewable energy sector, she is now working as analyst for Dunsky Energy Consulting

François Bergeron a graduate of Polytechnique Montréal and has been working for WPred between 2015 and 2018. In addition to developing WPred' business, he contributed to significant improvements of our forecasting techniques, both in solar and wind energy. Still involved in the renewable energy sector, she is now working as project manager for DNV

Aurélien Froger was a doctoral student in Operations Research. Academic partner of WPred, he studied at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Angers as well as at Polytechnique Montréal. In partnership with WPred, he applied his expertise to maintenance schedule optimization problems in the wind energy sector.

Frédérick Boulay was the favorite forecaster of our airport clients. He is now working for Environment Canada, still as a forecaster

Hugo Migneron worked as the main IT developer of our website and software applications between 2012 and 2016. He actively and brillantly contributed to the technological developement of WPred during this period of time.

Jérôme Solis is a graduate of Physics Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He's always on the lookout for opportunities to share about innovative solutions that help drive the growth of renewable energy in power systems. He joined WPred in 2012 to develop its wind and airport activities in Canada and around the world.

Hugues Normandin was the second member of WPred and its main IT specialist at the time, managing WPred's highly computerized environment. He has more than 10 years experience in the IT field, having worked for foreign educational institutions, and is an expert in the field of IT security.