Dr. Aaron Genest serves as the President of SaskTech and the representative for Mentor, a Siemens Company. SaskTech, founded in 2018, is an industry advocacy group of more than 80 organizations and businesses with corporate offices in Saskatchewan. Their goal is to address the technology labour shortage by working with government, educational institutions, and support agencies to ensure a robust labour force for technology and digital industries over this century.

Dr. Genest is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan Computer Science program, the former Director of Customer Experience at Solido, and is now the Technical Manager for European and North American Accounts at Mentor after the successful acquisition of Solido by Siemens. He lives and works in Saskatoon with his wife, Dr. Emily Jenkins, and three children