Isabelle Brissette, a graduate from the first McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA cohort in 2010, has recently been appointed Chief Advisor, Security and Business Resilience at Rio Tinto, a first for a woman in this role, for a mining or oil & gas multinational. For this new position, Isabelle will actively [...]
Angelica Potes, a 2018 McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA graduate, moved to Zagreb, Croatia last spring to work with Oradian, a financial inclusion company serving financial institutions in remote, hard-to-reach communities. As Head of Global Sales Operations, Angelica Potes drives the expansion of Oradian’s global community of visionary financial institutions through strategic [...]
Anne Marie Talbot, a 2016 HEC Montréal MBA graduate and founder of 17Aylwin, a personal assistant service, recently created a Women Entrepreneurship Scholarship for a HEC Montréal MBA student entrepreneurs. Having herself received a scholarship during her studies, she certainly saw the benefits. Anne Marie initiated the project by contacting [...]
Spiria, whose founder and CEO, Stéphane Rouleau, is a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, has again made the list of Canada's 500 fastest-growing companies published in Canadian Business and Maclean's. This is Spiria’s seventh consecutive year in this prestigious ranking. Spiria is a firm specialised in software solutions. "Our main corporate objective [...]
Mariana Chucri, a 2017 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, has accepted the position of Director of Operations at the Société des arts technologiques [SAT]. SAT plays an active role as a pioneer in the development of immersive technologies, virtual reality and the creative use of very high speed networks. As a [...]
After several years with Broan-Nutone and Venmar, Rodier Grondin, who graduated from the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program earlier in 2018, recently made the decision to pursue another challenge as President of Princecraft. Princecraft is a company that has been designing and manufacturing boats in its factories situated in Princeville for [...]
The history of the Groupe Germain hotels is deeply rooted in family. Founded in 1957, the business leadership has spanned three generations to include Marie-Pier Germain, EMBA 2016. The Germain family’s third generation, Clarah, Hugo and Marie-Pier (a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate), are now playing an increasingly important role in [...]
Sylvie Methot, a McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program 2011 graduate, has recently been appointed as Independent Board member for the CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal for a three-year mandate. She will be mostly involved in the risk management, finance and accounting issues. Sylvie Methot is an investment [...]
Crédit : Mathieu B. Morin The Board of Directors of the Maison du développement durable (MDD) recently announced the appointment of Josée Duplessis, a 2016 McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA graduate, as General Manager of the MDD. "It's a stimulating challenge for me to contribute to spreading this unique [...]
Rodrigo Carvajal S., a 2016 graduate of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montreal program, joins Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Canada as Director of Trade – Import. MSC is a worldwide leader in the Global Container Shipping industry with global headquarters in Geneva Switzerland that creates value around the globe. With over 480 [...]