Jean-François Godmer, a 2014 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, recently joined Poka as Global Channel Program Director. Poka is a Quebec-based startup developing a complete solution to digitize factory-floor information processing. The company has experienced rapid growth; its recent round of funding brought their total investment to $17M to develop innovative [...]
It’s a new industry and a new city for Marco de Tavira. After spending much of his career working in the aerospace industry, Marco has recently accepted a new role as Director of Project Management at Scotiabank, which meant packing his bags and moving to Toronto. His decision to move [...]
Rob Ersoni (EMBA 2018) has accepted the newly created role of VP of Global Business Services, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer. In this new role, he will define the annual performance objectives for the Global Business Services (GBS) organization in agreement with the Executive Leadership Team. This role [...]
A true catalyst in the development of entrepreneurship, PME MTL works in concert with a vast network of partners and acts as a point of convergence between entrepreneurs and the various experts, stakeholders and funding program managers. With 15 years of experience as a manager of the media and entertainment [...]
Jason Taylor, who is part of this year’s EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal graduating class, has recently been promoted to Head Government Sustainable Finance at Scotiabank, Global Banking and Markets. Jason is moving into Government Finance, with a dual mandate. He will be covering the Province of Québec, Hydro-Québec, and the City [...]
Laurent Vivier, a current participant of the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA, has been promoted to Director, Prevention and Risk at Glencore Nickel, for the Raglan Mine. Over the last seven years, Laurent has been Mine Maintenance Superintendent at Glencore’s Raglan mine. He takes on this new leadership role with great enthusiasm, [...]
Sean Sefsik, a 2017 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, was recently promoted to General Manager, at Québec-Gatineau Railway (Genesee & Wyoming Canada). As General Manager, Sean shares: ‘at the Québec-Gatineau Railway our objective mirrors that of our parent company Genesee & Wyoming Inc, in that we strive to be the safest [...]
Bruno Meunier, a 2018 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, was recently promoted to Vice President of Operations, Greater Montreal at Kevric Real Estate Corp. He has been with Kevric nearly 6 years and this is his second promotion since joining the company and his second since finishing the EMBA program. Bruno [...]
Patrick Bolduc, a 2017 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA graduate, has recently taken on the new role of Manager, Hydrocarbons, Explosives, Natural Gas & Services - Atlantic at Rio Tinto. He’s thrilled about his return to Rio Tinto, where he worked from 2011-2015, because his new role gives him global responsibilities, with [...]
Ten years ago, the leaders of two of Canada's most prestigious business schools, McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management and HEC Montréal took up the ambitious challenge of joining forces to launch the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program. Professors Alain Pinsonneault (McGill) and Louis Hébert (HEC Montréal), pedagogical [...]