“The EMBA gave me tools as well as a reflection framework which help me to have innovative approaches to traditional problems.” Alexis Bourson, a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA 2019 alumnus, recently joined Axya as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Axya is a Montreal start up founded in 2019 which developed a solution [...]
Carlos Andrade will be a McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumnus very soon. He started the program in September 2020. At the time, he was Project Manager for Alstom Bombardier. During the program, he became the Director for Procurement and Supply Chain at Letenda an innovative manufacturer of city buses zero-emissions. [...]
When Jillian began her EMBA, she was in a leadership position in a Montreal startup. In March, COVID-19 changed the course of her career. She launched a mask production company with her sister and sought a new professional opportunity. She found her fit with Local Logic, a tech-real-estate [...]
In addition to completing the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA in 2015, over the last two decades Claire Hayek has held roles in various fields as an engineer, team leader, and project manager as well as being an entrepreneur and a singer-songwriter. Her diverse experiences and the challenges she has faced, as [...]
“My sister and I launched our very first online shop last week. What turned out as a hobby is now becoming a full time gig,” explained current McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA participant Jillian Ruiz. In response to the current COVID-19 crisis, the sisters founded Masque & Co. in order to provide adults [...]
Laurent Andriot, a 2020 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumnus, recently accepted the role of Vice-president of Engineering for Dr-B, a startup in the Health Care sector. Dr-B, which is currently in the process to be renamed Lotus Medical, is a startup that just closed its seed funding round. The company’s vision [...]
Over the course of his career, Daleyne Guay, a 2016 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA alumnus, created and then sold eight companies, in different industries. To say that he knows something about entrepreneurship is an understatement! "Every day, people ask me how to go about starting a business and whether they should [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ginette Mailhot appointed President of the Board of Directors of Anges Québec Ginette Mailhot is a real believer in supporting the development of the business community, and it shows in the moves she’s made since graduating from the EMBA McGill-HEC Montreal in 2014. She sold the insurance firm, la turquoise, [...]