Justin Picard is a Swiss-Canadian engineer and entrepreneur who currently serves as the chief technology officer of Scantrust, a company he co-founded in 2013.

[1][2][3] Picard is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade,[4][5] and the network of experts at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

[9] He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Neuchâtel in 2000, before going to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for postdoctoral research in digital watermarking, focusing on the problem of securing products and documents against counterfeiting.

In 2004, he moved to Thomson Technicolor to work as head of their research and development in Essen, Germany, before joining Advanced Track & Trace as chief scientist in 2006.

[12] In 2013, Picard left Advanced Track & Trace and co-founded Scantrust with chief executive officer Nathan J. Anderson and lead engineer Paul Landry, developing their company's technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.