Serge Godin

Chairman and CEO, CGI Group
$3.23B
as of 10/04/24

About Serge Godin

Serge Godin is chairman of Canadian tech firm CGI Group, which he founded in 1976 at age 26.

One of nine children, Godin started working for his father (who had just a fifth-grade education) at the family's sawmill at age 12.

He studied computer science and got an MBA from Quebec's Université Laval, then worked in consulting before using $5,000 in savings to start CGI.

Godin serves as chairman of the $10 billion (revenue) company; he was president and CEO until 2006.

He has overseen more than 105 acquisitions, including the 1998 purchase of Bell Sygma, which nearly doubled the size of the company at the time.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Canada

Source of wealth

Information technology

Residence

Westmount, Canada

Marital status

Married

Birth date

11/17/49 (age 74)

Number of children

2

Education

Master of Business Administration, Laval University

Self-made

self-made

Serge Godin’s fortune is worth

54K

troy ounces of gold

50K

median U.S. household

32K

median U.S. income

0.065%

U.S. credit card volume

0.013%

GDP of the United States

0.009%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

When his father's uninsured mill burned down, a young Godin worked at a convenience store after school and at a dry cleaner's on Saturdays to help pay the bills.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TORONTO | GIB.A-CA

CGI Group

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