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 [...]
In the fall of 2019, Professor Alain Pinsonneault, one of the founding Academic Directors of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal, received two very prestigious honours: he received the First-ever Henry Mintzberg PhD Teaching and Mentorship Award and was nominated as a Distinguished James McGill Professor. The Henry Mintzberg PhD Teaching and Mentorship Award [...]
Annie Fredette (EMBA 2015), has recently embarked on her new challenge as Manager, Corporate Strategy Development at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Her role is to lead a team of Project Managers and Change Managers who are supporting projects and initiatives across the organization. Her main mandate right now, [...]
After leading the Contrecoeur West Bar Mill for the last three years, Guillaume will be the new Director for the Longueuil Bar Mill at AMLPC. In 2018, he led Contrecoeur to its best safety record, a five year high in quality, and increased its output by 5.6% compared to 2017, [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the 47 new members of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA family The 12th cohort of the McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA program started their journey on September 11th. They will complete the program at the end of 2020 and receive their diploma (bearing the seals of [...]
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 [...]
Sébastien Prévost (EMBA 2012) recently accepted the position of Director, Global Talent Acquisition Strategy and Deployment at BRP. In this role, Sébastien will lead the Global Talent Acquisition team and promote the implementation of higher-level talent acquisition experiences by identifying the best candidates to join the organization. An important part [...]
Isabel Dansereau and Jason Taylor (EMBA 2019) amongst Poets & Quants’ Best & Brightest EMBAs for 2019 Poets & Quants for Executives released their list of the Best & Brightest EMBAs for 2019. Among some of the most impressive Executive MBA students of the year, from the best schools around [...]
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 [...]