Roy Chartier is CTO and co-founder of Qvelo, an engineering firm specializing in sovereign HPC and AI infrastructure, and interim Executive Director of Computing for Humanity, a Canadian charity operating research cloud infrastructure. He previously served as Director of Architecture at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and as Vice Chair with the U.S. National Science Foundation's ACCESS program. Roy is a volunteer standards committee member with the Digital Governance Standards Institute, contributing to a digital sovereignty data governance framework and the PAS 142 healthcare data governance panel, and is an active voice in Canadian digital sovereignty and AI policy.