The origin
It started with a landscape architect who kept looking abroad.
Youssef El Saai spent a decade designing landscapes and public spaces on the Quebec and Canadian market, leading teams inside established design and engineering firms. To deliver, he often turned to talent overseas, and saw first-hand how much skill his home country, Egypt, could offer North American firms. At the same time, he watched the Gulf and Africa launch some of the most ambitious projects in the world, while most North American firms had little idea how to reach them. Two gaps, one idea: bring the talent here, and open the door there.
Our conviction
Two bridges, three ways to help.
Everything Scaliance does comes back to those two bridges, which is why the group works through three connected poles.
The founders
The people behind Scaliance.
Youssef El Saai
Founder and Managing Director
A licensed landscape architect with a degree in urban infrastructure engineering from ETS, Youssef brings ten years on the Quebec and Canadian market. Having worked across design, planning and engineering firms, he understands how teams produce and what they need. At Scaliance he structures collaborations, follows the teams and safeguards the quality of every deliverable, adapting to your tools and your organisation so you can stay focused on design, client relationships and the success of your projects.
Sarah Lauprêtre
Co-founder and Director of Development
A business development and marketing strategist, Sarah brings more than ten years alongside leaders and large North American firms, spanning digital marketing, consulting, corporate services and finance recruitment. She knows what clients expect and how bids are won. At Scaliance she leads market analysis, opportunity identification, strategic planning, proposals and client relationships, with a results-driven, clear-messaging approach that turns commercial effort into real mandates.
Montreal and Cairo, across two continents.
Let's talk.
Tell us what you are building, and we will find the right way to help.