Headquarters:

Tour B, 1035 Av. Wilfrid-Pelletier, Suite 440, Québec City, Quebec G1W 0C5

Year founded:

2009

Number of employees:

Phone:

+1 877 481 4909

Email:

info@folkshr.com

Website:

folksrh.com/en

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/folks-hr

Jimmy Plante

Chief Executive Officer

Sébastien Derome

Chief Financial Officer

David Gomez

Director, Product and Software Development

Leadership

Jimmy Plante joined Folks in 2023 as CEO, bringing a clear vision: to make Folks the go-to HR and payroll platform for Canadian SMBs. Under his leadership, Folks secured $4.5 million in financing, acquired Glow Talents, obtained SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and launched Folks 2.0 with fully integrated payroll. Plante is driven by the belief that technology should remove friction from HR operations and empower organizations to build stronger, more human workplaces.

Chief Executive Officer

Jimmy Plante

Sébastien Derome leads Folks’ financial strategy, ensuring the company’s growth is built on strong foundations. He oversees financial planning, reporting, and governance as Folks scales its operations across Canada. His leadership was instrumental in structuring the $4.5 million financing round and aligning financial resources with the company’s product and market expansion ambitions.

Chief Financial Officer

Sébastien Derome

David Gomez leads product strategy and engineering at Folks, overseeing the development of the core HR platform, the ATS, and Folks Payroll. He is responsible for translating customer needs and market trends into a coherent, high-quality product roadmap. Gomez ensures that Folks’ platform evolves continuously while maintaining the reliability and performance that customers depend on every day.

Director, Product and Software Development

David Gomez

Stéphane Morin

Sales Director

Stéphane Morin leads Folks’ sales organization, driving new customer acquisition across Canada. He has helped scale the company’s customer base to more than 1,500 organizations by building a consultative sales approach focused on understanding each prospect’s HR challenges before recommending a solution. Morin is passionate about helping SMBs realize the full potential of technology-enabled HR transformation.

Sales Director

Stéphane Morin

Catherine Maheux-Rochette

Marketing Director

Catherine Maheux-Rochette leads marketing strategy at Folks, building the brand’s authority in the Canadian HR technology space. She oversees content, demand generation, and communications, with a particular focus on educational marketing that helps HR leaders navigate the evolving world of HCM technology. Maheux-Rochette plays a key role in positioning Folks as a trusted HR partner for Canadian SMBs.

Marketing Director

Catherine Maheux-Rochette

Jean-Simon Bolduc

Director, Major Accounts and Technical Excellence

Jimmy De Santis

Director, Customer Operations

Louis Nault

Project Director, ATS

Pam Chhabra

Manager – Residential Strata

Jean-Simon Bolduc is one of Folks’ founding team members, joining in 2015. Before joining Folks, he worked as an HR consultant, gaining firsthand insight into the operational challenges HR teams face every day. He leads major account relationships and technical excellence, ensuring that Folks’ most strategic customers receive a high level of support and partnership. Bolduc’s combination of HR consulting experience and deep institutional knowledge of the platform makes him a critical bridge between product development and real-world HR needs.

Director, Major Accounts and Technical Excellence

Jean-Simon Bolduc

Jimmy De Santis leads customer operations at Folks, overseeing the support, onboarding, and success teams that maintain the company’s 98 percent customer satisfaction rate. He is responsible for ensuring that every customer, from implementation through day-to-day use, experiences the full value of the Folks platform. De Santis’s team is central to Folks’ approach of delivering technology that organizations find practical and easy to use.

Director, Customer Operations

Jimmy De Santis

Louis Nault brings deep expertise in AI-powered recruitment technology to Folks, having been a key executive at Glow Talents prior to its acquisition in 2024. At Glow Talents – a Montreal-based ATS recognized for its innovative approach to candidate sourcing, screening, and selection – he played a central role in building what would become Folks ATS. Today, Nault leads ATS product direction at Folks, driving the integration of AI-driven recruiting capabilities into the Folks ecosystem and ensuring Canadian SMBs have access to a seamless recruitment experience.

Project Director, ATS

Louis Nault

Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager. As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.

Commercial Manager

Stephen McMillan

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Emily Walker

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Folks HR is a Canadian-built, all-in-one HR and payroll platform created for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are ready to move beyond spreadsheets and scattered systems. From recruitment and onboarding to time tracking, performance, and payroll, Folks unifies the entire employee lifecycle so HR teams can spend less time on administration and more time on people. The company’s story goes back to 2009, when founder Sylvain Roy saw how underserved HR professionals in SMBs were, especially when it came to technology. Most either could not afford enterprise-grade systems or tried to make do with tools that were not built for them. Many were managing employee information in spreadsheets, shared drives, and email threads, manually re-entering the same data into different systems. Roy launched Manage With Success, an affordable solution designed to simplify HR for smaller organizations. As the product and its community evolved, the company rebranded to Allié RH, and then to Folks in 2020, reflecting a broader mission and a deeper connection to HR leaders across Canada. What started as a Quebec-focused solution is now a pan-Canadian platform supporting more than 1,500 organizations and over 125,000 employee records. Growth has accelerated in recent years. In 2023, Jimmy Plante became CEO with a clear goal: to make Folks the go-to HR platform for Canadian SMBs. Since then, Folks has secured $4.5 million in growth financing, acquired Glow Talents to strengthen its applicant tracking system, and launched Folks 2.0 – an entirely redesigned platform with fully integrated payroll.

Product overview

Folks HR is an all-in-one HR and payroll platform built specifically for Canadian small and medium-sized businesses. The platform covers the full employee lifecycle – from recruitment and onboarding to performance management, time tracking, absence management, and fully integrated payroll. With all data hosted in Canada, SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and native support for Canadian compliance requirements (including CRA remittances, T4s, RL-1s, ROEs, multi-province tax calculations, and Quebec’s Law 25), Folks is designed for Canada’s regulatory environment. More than 1,500 organizations across the country manage over 125,000 employee records on the platform.

Key features and capabilities

Integrations

Folks integrates with leading Canadian and global tools, including Payworks, Nethris, Agendrix, QuickBooks, Xero, Indeed, LinkedIn, and Jobillico. The platform is designed as an open ecosystem, allowing organizations to connect their existing tools rather than replace them while ensuring Folks remains the single source of truth for people data.

Folks operates on a SaaS subscription model. Implementation is designed to be fast and low-friction, with a dedicated onboarding team guiding each new customer through setup, data migration, and initial configuration. Employees and managers access the platform via the web or the Folks mobile app. HR administrators manage all people processes from a single dashboard, with automated workflows reducing manual steps across the employee lifecycle. Payroll runs are handled within the same interface as HR data, eliminating the need to switch systems or reconcile records.

How our product works

After-sales and customer services

Folks maintains a 98 percent customer support satisfaction rate, reflecting its commitment to responsive, expert support at every stage of the customer journey. Customers have access to a dedicated help centre, in-product guidance, and a customer success team focused on driving adoption and maximizing platform value. All support is delivered by a Canadian team with deep knowledge of local HR and payroll compliance requirements.

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What sets this technology apart is its focus on practicality and ease of use. Many HR systems are built for large enterprises and then “downsized” for smaller organizations, leaving growing teams with tools that feel clunky, confusing, or excessive. Folks takes a different approach: the platform is designed around the everyday realities of HR, making it quick to implement and easy for managers to adopt. As a Canadian-owned company with all data hosted in Canada and SOC 2 Type 2 certification, Folks also provides confidence in compliance and data privacy without concerns about the US CLOUD Act or cross-border data exposure. Today, Folks works with organizations of 10 to 500 employees across manufacturing, construction, health care, professional services, and the non-profit sector. These businesses have outgrown ad hoc processes and disconnected applications but do not want the complexity or cost of enterprise software. Folks helps address three key challenges: administrative burden, disconnected systems, and compliance risk. By centralizing HR data, payroll, recruiting, performance, and reporting, the platform reduces errors and provides leaders with a clear, real-time view of their workforce. Customers report saving about one full day per week on administrative work, reducing turnover by up to 66 percent, and achieving documented savings of up to $175,000 per year. Folks also maintains a 98 percent customer support satisfaction rate. Folks’ ambition is to become the natural choice for any Canadian SMB that needs HR, payroll, and recruiting in one place. The team continues to invest in deeper integrations, smoother implementations, and AI-driven insights and workflow automation. Throughout, one principle guides the roadmap: technology should support human judgment, not replace it. HR is, and always will be, about people and culture – and Folks HR exists to give HR leaders the time, clarity, and tools they need to help both thrive.