13 things about Mister Global Canada 2023 Benjamin Filiatrault

Benjamin Filiatrault represented Canada in the ninth edition of Mister Global. He is professionally known as Papiben.

BIOGRAPHY

Filiatrault is a Hungarian-Canadian software engineer, business consultant and advisor, tech professional, entrepreneur, philanthropist, model and beauty king. He is trilingual and he holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Since Filiatrault was young, he has been interested in technology and coding. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He was born and raised in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
2. He was born in 1994.
3. In 2007, he created his first software, which caught the attention of a specialized computer science program. 
4. From 2014 to 2017, he attended the Centre de Formation Professionnelle des Riverains in Repentigny, Montréal.
5. In 2017, he became the youngest engineer ever hired by a Fortune 1000 company.
6. From 2017 to 2022, he worked at Soltivo in Montreal as a software engineer.
7. In 2018, he studied business administration and management at the Cégep Régional de Lanaudière à Joliette in Joliette, Quebec.
8. In 2022, he joined Shutterstock in Montreal as a software engineer and visited Colombia and Ecuador.
9. In 2023, he visited Thailand and founded Visually Impactful, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering creative individuals to produce impactful and engaging visual content.
10. He is Mister Global Canada 2023.
11. He was a Mister Global 2023 candidate.
12. In 2024, he competed Traliant‘s Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards training course.
13. In 2025, he was featured as a TEDx speaker in Ecuador.

TIMELINE

Filiatrault speaks English, French and Spanish. He is the fourth beauty king to represent Canada in Mister Global.

2010s

• In August 2014, he entered the Centre de Formation Professionnelle des Riverains in Repentigny.
• In June 2017, he graduated from the Centre de Formation Professionnelle des Riverains.
• In August 2017, he joined Soltivo in Montreal as a software engineer.
• In January 2018, he became a senior software engineer at Soltivo.

2020s

• In February 2022, he left Soltivo and joined Shutterstock in Montreal as a software engineer II.
• In August 2022, he traveled to Baranquilla, Colombia.
• In September 2022, he traveled to La Carolina, Quito, Ecuador.
• In October 2022, he traveled to El Cabrero, Bolivar, Colombia and Pasto, Nariño, Colombia.
• In November 2022, he traveled to Corales Islas del Rosario, Colombia and Cumbaya, Quito.
• On January 30, 2023, he was appointed Mister Global Canada 2023.
• On February 5, 2023, he arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• On February 8, 2023, he launched Visually Impactful.
• On February 11, 2023, he represented Canada at Mister Global 2023 and competed against 38 other candidates at the Royal Park Rajapruek in Chiang Mai. He was unplaced.
• In April 2025, he was promoted to software engineer III at Shutterstock.
• On June 14, 2025, he delivered a speech about digital illiteracy and cybersecurity at a TEDx event at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito.