Frantz Saintellemy President & COO LeddarTech Co-Founder and Chairman Groupe 3737 "No one stops learning even if you've been out of school for decades. It is like learning to ride a bike, you never lose the ability to learn unless you don't want to learn." Describe yourself in 25 words [...]
After working 30 years as a freelancing consultant, Yves Bérubé, a 2019 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumnus, took the plunge and joined the Mutuelle des municipalités du Québec (MMQ) as Director of Technology. "It was my main objective when completing the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA program. I wanted to develop my managerial [...]
Kate Arthur* has been named the VISA Entrepreneur / Innovation Leader of the Year 2019. Kate is the Founder and CEO of Kids Code Jeunesse, a Canadian, bilingual, charity determined to give every Canadian child access to digital skills education. Kate won the award ahead of 15 other shortlisted leaders in [...]
Each McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA cohort is unique. However, one of the common elements across classes is the presence of entrepreneurs. . Entrepreneurs choose the EMBA to learn to do things differently by connecting with top professors and with colleagues from different industries, and different types and sizes of organizations. The [...]
"I have always dreamed of being an entrepreneur, but it took me a long time to dare to take the plunge ..." On October 31, 2019, Laurent Letzter, a 2019 McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA alumnus, launched AG-Xess, a strategic partner for agricultural business development. "The idea came to me as [...]
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 [...]
Looking for an evening out at one of Montreal’s best restaurants? A list published in Forbes outlines which local spots should not be missed, including Dominic Bujold’s (EMBA 2013) popular eatery LOV. Read more in Forbes. ELLE Quebec also published an article on LOV's new location in Laval: If many have already enjoyed frequenting [...]
Stéphane Fortin, a 2018 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, had a new company project in mind well before his admission to the McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA: Divicor Inc. The firm’s unique approach is in providing foreign companies in a highly technical field - graphic communications and printability - representation in Canada [...]
Claire Hayek, a 2015 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, has recently been elected as a director on the board of Re:Sound. “Artisti’s board [on which Claire already sits] nominated me to join Re:Sound. They thought I would be a good fit due to my business and music background as well as [...]
Claudia Désilets and Pascal Larose (EMBA 2018) among Poets & Quants’ Best & Brightest EMBAs for 2018 Poets & Quants for Executives released their list of the Best & Brightest EMBAs for 2018. Among some of the most impressive Executive MBA students of the year, from 45 schools around the [...]