Matthieu Houle

Director, Mobile & Platforms, Yellow Pages Group

I'm Director, Mobile & Platform at Yellow Pages Group, responsible for Yellow Pages’ mobile properties, Canada’s most successful mobile local search portfolio with more than 800,000 downloads to date. I am also the product director and creator of Urbanizer.com, an innovative, mood-based discovery iPhone application. I am also responsible to develop and implement YPG’s distributed strategy and Yellow Pages’ Developer Platform. Demonstrated “corporate entrepreneur” and innovator, I have 14 years of experience in local search, media and advertising. I joined the company in 2000 where I held various positions in Marketing, Business Development, and Operations. I started my career in Costa Rica where I spent six years and co-founded a design agency and two quarterly publications: a local surf magazine and a golf magazine.