Nutrigroupe, a farmer-owned egg-grading and distribution organization in Canada, announced the appointment of Claudia Désilets, a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumna, President of Groupe Inovo Inc., as President of its board. Claudia will be the first woman to hold this significant position, a strong signal that the agrifood sector is evolving [...]
Building on his extensive career as a business coach, startup entrepreneur and engineer, Davender Gupta joined the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program as an Industrial Technology Advisor. "The EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal program expanded my business knowledge toolkit and pushed my analytical skillset to a [...]
Bringing significant experience in retail management, Mélanie joins the Desjardins team, where she will be called upon to contribute to the success of the omnichannel transformation for the benefit of Desjardins members and clients. "With the EMBA, I learned to consider the interests of the various employees and [...]
Annie Hotte, EMBA 2018, was recently appointed Chief Operating Officer at Lemay, where for the past 3 years she has been a Partner, and Head, Talent and Corporate Strategy. Annie brings, beyond her experience at Lemay, an impressive career in talent management with 12 years at Uni-Select Inc. [...]
One of our recent graduates dared to pursue her dream of writing a novel. “An Accidental life” has recently been released. She relates her experience and motivation: I am a bookworm, and I’ve always loved writing. In high school I entered short story contests on CBC Radio. In Cégep [...]
Isabelle Valois, a 2018 EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal alumna, has recently been appointed as Senior Director, Channel Strategy – International at Walter Surface Technologies. Walter Surface Technologies, a company founded in Montreal in 1952, provides high productivity abrasives, power tools, tooling, chemical solutions and environmental solutions for the metal working industry. [...]
"The reputation of the two universities, but above all, the bilingual aspect of the program were particularly important to me when I chose the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA. Today, a few years after graduating, I can say that it is the diverse business knowledge and tools that I developed through the [...]
Pascal Larose, EMBA 2018, is promoted to Vice President, Operations of the Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ). Just a few months after joining the STQ as Director of Organizational Transformation, Pascal Larose has received his second promotion. After leaving the Canadian Army early 2019, Pascal joined the STQ as [...]
Eric Boucher, a 2018 EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal graduate has recently accepted the role of Senior Vice President of Operations for Sika Canada. In addition to his Chemical Engineer education as well as an EMBA, Eric has several years of experience in the optimization and management of operations in different plants [...]
Jennifer Vaillancourt (EMBA 2018), who joined the Aldo Group just before receiving her McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA diploma in the spring of 2018, has been promoted to Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy at Aldo Group. Her new role will have her collaborate with key business unit owners of Aldo Group’s global [...]