AI engineering firm Elevata has a new leader at the helm, and the timing is no accident: the company just posted its strongest quarter yet in Canada.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, October 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Elevata, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, has named Dave Lindon as its new Chief Executive Officer, tasking him with steering the company’s next growth chapter across Canada. The move also reshapes the leadership team: co-founders Bruno Machado Valerio and Luciana Prieto are stepping into the roles of Chief AI Officer and VP, Commercial, respectively.
Lindon’s promotion follows his tenure as the company’s general manager. Before that, he built and ran OpsGuru’s Canadian operation, taking it to AWS Premier Tier status and collecting three Canadian Partner of the Year awards along the way.
The leadership change lands on the heels of a standout third quarter for Elevata in 2026. The company influenced tens of millions of U.S. dollars in annualized AWS revenue and posted year-over-year growth of as much as 2,000% in partner-originated AWS revenues—a signal of how quickly its model is gaining traction.
“AI is blurring the line between products and professional services. Customers want a defined business outcome, delivered with the speed and repeatability of a product and built around the way their business works,” said Dave Lindon, CEO of Elevata. “My focus is to scale that model for AWS customers while they retain the intellectual property that sets them apart.”
That model is built on reusable accelerators and integration blueprints, which cut down on repetitive engineering tasks. That lets engineers focus on the custom architecture, integrations and business logic each client needs—speeding up delivery while keeping solutions tailored to how each business operates.
Valerio will now steer AI strategy across both client work and internal operations. Prieto, who originally led Elevata’s push into Canada, will oversee sales, partnerships and marketing.
AWS Canada has also tapped Elevata as a launch partner for the AWS Partner Innovation Hub in Toronto, a nod to its work turning AI concepts into production-ready systems. Elevata’s Canadian practice pairs a Toronto base and support during Canadian business hours with engineering teams spread across Canada, Europe and Brazil. Delivery teams design around each customer’s data residency, privacy and AWS Region requirements.
AWS remains the backbone of Elevata’s engineering work. Its OpenAI Services Partner relationship bolsters AI implementation for customers’ existing AWS setups, while a partnership with Coralogix backs observability and ongoing operations.
About Elevata
Elevata is an AI-native engineering company and AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with the Generative AI and Small and Medium Business Competencies. The company designs, builds and operates AI, data and cloud systems on AWS, bringing together teams in Canada, Europe and Brazil with experience delivering more than 400 AWS projects. Visit elevata.io.
Why it matters: Elevata’s leadership shuffle comes at a moment of explosive growth, and the new CEO’s track record in scaling Canadian AWS businesses suggests the company is betting on repeatable delivery models to sustain that momentum. For AWS customers, that could mean faster, more tailored AI implementations without sacrificing ownership of their intellectual property.
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