Innovation management
Guided innovative projects through design and proof of concept, from first concept to a build a board could fund.
Archive · 2014 to 2024
Information,
Innovation.
I&I Strategy advised banks, industry and public institutions on information strategy and innovation management for ten years. In 2024 the practice was rebranded and continues today as MAGNA. This page is the record.
- Founded
- 2014Montréal, Québec
- Founders
- 2Le Roux · Bagur
- Offices
- 3Canada, USA, France
The lineage
One practice, three names, ten years.
I&I Strategy did not close. It was renamed. The people, the mandates and the corporate entity carried straight through.
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2014
Founded
Jean Loup Le Roux and Marc Bagur establish I&I Strategy in Montréal.
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2019
European practice
Bordeaux and Paris presence. Industry 4.0, extended reality and information governance mandates.
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2024
Becomes MAGNA
The practice is rebranded. Same entity, sharper mandate: cyber, privacy and AI governance. magnacyber.ch →
Succeeded by
MAGNA · Cyber, Privacy & AI GovernanceThe practice
What I&I Strategy did.
Information strategy
Refined governance so that institutions stopped missing the weak signals that mattered. Knowledge as an asset, managed like one.
Advisory
Worldwide advisory to boards and executive committees. Corporate threat-risk assessment and security strategy, delivered by senior people only.
Selected clients
Who trusted the firm.
Eight of them, across four sectors and two continents.
- Morgan StanleyInvestment banking
- BNP ParibasBanking
- PSP InvestmentsPension management
- PorscheAutomotive
- ChanelLuxury
- PublicisAdvertising
- OrangeTelecommunications
- ArevaNuclear energy
“There are no old roads to new directions.”
The founders
Two people, one thesis.
Jean Loup P. G. Le Roux
Strategist · Cyber security leader · Board advisor
Engineer, ISO 27001 lead auditor since 2009, court-qualified expert witness. Advised Morgan Stanley, Volvo and Motorola. Today founder and partner at MAGNA.
Marc Bagur
AI strategist · Industry 4.0 expert · Teacher
Serial FrenchTech entrepreneur, twenty years in. Early Android game developer, then a pioneer of virtual reality with European industrial leaders. Advised more than seventy companies on innovation strategy.
Forwarding address
The work continues under MAGNA.
Since 2024 the practice operates as MAGNA, a boutique cybersecurity, privacy and AI governance firm serving regulated organizations from Montréal and Geneva. Senior experts only.