OUR STORY
Canadian Climbing Products
Created in 2017, Lemur Design is a company based in Montreal. From the beginning, highly qualified engineers focus their efforts in the development of high added value products dedicated to the training in climbing.
Our mission consists in offering the best climbing equipments ever to the climbing gyms and the climbers around the world.
Our products are only made in Canada mostly with Canadian components. An excellent quality and a perfect design are our greatest concerns.
We have built a strong partnership with companies whose expertise is internationally recognized as Kilter Climbing Grips for the adjustable walls, or the Quebec company Gorila Fitness, for the fitness products we have developed.
MEET THE TEAM

ABEL CHOUINARD
Chief Executive Officer AND CO-founder
Holder of a Master's degree in Mechanical Manufacturing from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Abel Chouinard is passionate about mechanics and outdoor sports.
After working for 7 years at MDA as the Head of Composite Manufacturing, working on 3 shifts and with a multi-million dollar supply chain, he has decided to put his ideas into action and launch Lemur Design to bring space technology to the climbing world.
Powered by an almost inexhaustible energy, married and father of a toddler, Abel is never far from a jumping in a new adventure.

JULIEN FRACHON
Chief Technology Officer
After defending a doctoral thesis in 2009 at the École Normale Supérieure de
Paris, Julien immigrated to Canada to join MDA as a mechanical analyst.
Accomplished sportsman, first in martial arts, then in long-distance running (think 89-km landmark Comrades Marathon in South Africa!), Julien did not hesitate to join the effort to combine technology and sports.
Powered by his structural expertise and cartesian mind, Julien is responsible for the technology development at Lemur Design.

JEAN-MARTIN CYR
Chief Financial Officer, Gym Owner AND CO-founder
Engineer, MBA holder and serial entrepreneur, Jean-Martin has lived a dual life for several years - one as an energetic production manager in the space industry, and the other as a successful climbing gym owner.
He makes sure the team focuses on the real issues lived by gym operators - while, of course, training for long distance running, cross-country ski and wall climbing with his wife and two boys.
Jean-Martin was the ideator of Lemur Design.