Jacques is the founder and Chief Scientist of Security Inclusion Now - USA, a California-based consulting, training and software organization innovating in security tool development. Jacques is also a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network recognized as a Blockchain security expert and the Team Lead of the Security & Assurance Working Group of the Digital Currency Global Initiative, a joint program of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) & Stanford University.

Jacques has over 30+ years of experience in high technology beginning his career as an Aerospace Engineer with the Canadian Space Agency, next moving to Silicon Valley in 1999, beginning his privacy and security consulting advisory career with KPMG, followed by SAIC and E&Y. Jacques is a 2018/19/20 US Delegate to the U.S. Department of State to ITU, Standardization Study Group 17: Security. He was also Vice Chair of the ITU Focus Group on Digital Fiat Currency and co-chair of the Security Working Group. Finally, Jacques is also a US Marine Corp Cyber Auxiliary.

Jacques has an MBA with honors from Concordia University, Montreal; M.A.Sc from the University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto.