Board of directors

Career

Jacques Martin is a corporate director. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada.

He spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs in London and New York where he was Managing Director and Head of International Equities at the time of his departure in 2003. From 2004 until 2008, he was Senior Vice President, International Equities, based in New York, for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, a Bachelor of Law from Université de Montréal. He also has both an MBA and a certificate in corporate governance from INSEAD. He is a member of the Quebec Bar.

Career

Benoit Daignault is a corporate director. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of EDC between February 2014 and February 2019. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Daignault served as Senior Vice President, Financing and Investments, after having served as Senior Vice President, Business Development. Prior to joining EDC in 2004, Mr. Daignault worked for more than 10 years at General Electric Capital, where he held increasingly senior positions in both Canada and the United States. Mr. Daignault holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montréal and is a designated Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He completed the Proteus program at the London Business School and the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Conference Board of Canada.

Career

Nicolas Darveau-Garneau is Chief Strategist at Google Search. Prior to that, he was Director of Sales at Google in charge of a $1.2 billion division. He started with Google as Manager at the Montreal Office. Prior to Google, Mr. Darveau-Garneau was an Internet entrepreneur, consultant and investor.

Since 1995, he has co-founded many Internet companies, including Imix.com, BigDeal and Liquor.com, a company for which he has been a director since its inception in 2008. Mr. Darveau-Garneau is also an angel investor in Silicon Valley, California. He worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. in Montreal and senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC in New York.

He specializes in marketing and Internet product development. He holds an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from University of Waterloo. Since 2012, he has been a director of a number of not-for-profit organizations.

Career

Emma K. Griffin has been a director of Aimia Inc., a leading data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company, since January 2016. In November 2017, Ms. Griffin joined the Board of Directors of Claridge Inc., a private investment company. From December 2015 to November 2018, she was a director and strategic advisor for Golder Associates, a global organization offering environmental services.

From January 2014 to June 2015, Ms. Griffin was managing director and co-founder of Refined Selection Limited, a holding company created to invest in the professional services and recruitment industries. From 2002 to 2013, Ms. Griffin was a founding partner of Oriel Securities, a stockbroking firm recognized for its independence and for providing trusted advice, which was sold to Stifel Financial Corp. in the summer of 2014.

Until November 2016, Ms. Griffin was also chair of the board of Cancer Research UK’s Catalyst Club, a pioneering venture that raises money towards personalized medicine. She holds an M.A. from Oxford University.

Career

Ginette Maillé has extensive experience in the financial field. Since 2017, she has been Vice-President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Aéroports de Montréal. Over the past 14 years, she has held senior management finance and accounting positions at Yellow Pages Ltd. Ms. Maillé holds the designation of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). She is a member of the audit committee.

Career

Monique Mercier held various executive positions with TELUS. From 2014 until she retired in January 2019, she held the position of Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal and Governance Officer. She began her career at Stikeman Elliott as a tax lawyer in 1984. She then worked at BCE and Bell Canada International before joining Emergis in 1999, which was acquired by TELUS in 2008.

Ms. Mercier holds a degree from the Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal and a master’s degree in political science from Oxford University, where she was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship. In June 2018, Ms. Mercier received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian General Counsel Awards. In 2016, she was honoured as Woman of the Year by the organization Women in Communications and Technology (WCT).

In 2015, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada. In 2002, she was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal as a Canadian businesswoman who has made exemplary contributions to Canada as a whole. Ms. Mercier serves on the Board of Trustees of the Legal Leaders for Diversity Trust Fund. She sits namely on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Cancer Research Society and the Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada.

Career

Danielle G. Morin has more than 35 years of experience in various sectors of the financial services industry. After graduating from Université Laval, she worked for Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada from 1977 until 1990 and for the Laurentian Imperial Company from 1990 until 1994, where she was Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer. She then worked for Desjardins Group in the group pensions and pooled investment funds areas, joining Canagex inc., a Desjardins Group investment subsidiary, as Vice-President, Finance and Operations in 1999.

In 2001, she joined the Public Sector Pension Investment Board as Senior Vice-President of Financial Operations. Ms. Morin then worked as Senior Vice-President, Distribution and Client Services, at Standard Life Investments Inc. from 2006 until 2013. Ms. Morin has been on the Boards of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, ASSURIS and Standard Life Investments Inc.

She has also been on the Board of Directors of Université Laval since 2017 and also on the Board of the Fondation de I'Université Laval since 2010. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and graduated from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Career

Marc Poulin currently serves as a corporate director. Mr. Poulin was a senior-level manager in the food industry in Canada. Over the last 19 years that he was at Sobeys Inc., he held, successively, the roles of Vice-President, Purchasing and Merchandising, Executive Vice-President and Assistant General Manager (Quebec), Head of Operations for Quebec and, from 2012 to 2016, President and Chief Executive Officer.

He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Empire Company Limited from 2012 to 2016. Prior thereto, Mr. Poulin held the strategic positions of Vice-President at Groupe Vie Desjardins-Laurentienne and at Culinar. Mr. Poulin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation. He is also a director and member of the Audit Committee at Quincaillerie Richelieu Hardware Ltd. and a director and member of the Human Resources Committee at Sportscene Group Inc.

He holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from Université Laval and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston (Illinois).

Career

Denis Ricard is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, a position that he has held since September 1, 2018, following the retirement of Mr. Yvon Charest. Mr. Ricard began his career with the Corporation in 1985, where he assumed several positions. In 2003, he was Vice President, Marketing, and then in March 2004, he was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary, a role that he held until April 2010. He then became Senior Vice President, Business Development. In 2015, he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Individual Insurance and Annuities until November 2017, when he became Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ricard is also a director of certain subsidiaries of the Corporation, including, most notably, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. Mr. Ricard obtained a bachelor’s degree in actuarial science from Université Laval in 1985 and, in 1988, he became a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and of the Society of Actuaries.

Denis Ricard has been involved in the community for many years. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Fondation CERVO, which supports care for mental health issues and research in neuroscience. He was also co-chair of the 2018 Québec and Chaudières-Appalaches United Way campaign.