
Philippe Daoust
VP Innovation, National Bank of Canada
Philippe serves as Managing Director of NAventures, National Bank’s corporate venture capital arm. In this role, he partners with high-growth companies and founders to expand the bank’s investment footprint in fintech and adjacent sectors. His work focuses on identifying emerging opportunities, scaling impactful technologies, and building long-term strategic partnerships.
In addition to his investment mandate, he has spent more than nine years driving strategic transformation and entrepreneurial growth. As Vice President of Innovation, he oversees initiatives that accelerate the bank’s digital evolution, foster experimentation, and support the development of new value-creating capabilities across the organization.
Philippe also contributes his expertise as a Board Observer for several companies, including nesto, Synctera, and d1g1t, where he supports teams shaping the future of financial services.
Panel Discussion: Positioning Payments and Digital Assets as Strategic Drivers of Risk and Profitability
- Linking payments innovation to liquidity, funding and capital strategy
- Using digital-asset infrastructure for efficiency, transparency and margin optimization
- Leveraging data from payments and crypto channels for enterprise-wide risk insight
- Understanding how risk excellence enables profitable innovation and competitiveness
