Bala Gopalakrishnan is the Chief Data Officer at Pelmorex, the parent company of The Weather Network/MétéoMédia brands. He leads business and product strategy around Big Data of Audience (login, behavioural, mobile location) and weather datasets for Pelmorex. Bala also leads partnerships with other data/tech companies and with Canadian universities in Data Science/Analytics.  ​He has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the Ivey Business School.