our team
SPEEDWELL
GILAIN
ADMINISTRATOR
Véronique Gilain has led numerous studies and analyzes on several major projects on the North Shore as partner in charge of consulting services at Mallette Est-du-Québec, as an independent consultant and previously as industrial commissioner. Trained in industrial engineering, project management, telecommunications and environmental management, she is also a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. Ms. Gilain has also assisted several large organizations in their strategic thinking and planning.
Brian
VAICKUS
VICE-PRESIDENT
Brian Vaickus worked for Alcoa for nearly 35 years. Team leader, he coordinated the Transport Canada group for the transport needs of the three aluminum smelters in Quebec. Mr. Vaickus previously served as Supervisor of Port Operations as well as General Foreman of Port Operations during the transition from Reynolds to Alcoa. In particular, he has experience in crisis management, inventory management and international transport coordination.
ALAIN
RIOUX
SECRETARY TREASURER
A chartered professional accountant and partner at Mallette in Baie-Comeau, Alain Rioux is responsible for the audit of several private companies and public organizations throughout the Côte-Nord region. Mr. Rioux assists business leaders and managers in understanding tax rules that are sometimes complex and full of exceptions. He has carried out numerous corporate reorganization and succession planning mandates. He actively practices in business purchase and sale mandates and obtaining financing.
MARK
LEFEBVRE
PRESIDENT
Marc Lefebvre has been a businessman actively involved in the community for nearly 30 years. In 2012, he was the instigator of the project to take over the federal port of Baie-Comeau by a local organization; he then founded the Corporation de gestion du port de Baie-Comeau (CGPBC). Recognized entrepreneur, Mr. Lefebvre co-founded Lefebvre Industri-AL in 2000, a company now recognized nationally for its specialization in the management of alloying and recycling elements. residues from aluminum production.
GERALD
HERVIEUX
ADMINISTRATOR
Gérard Hervieux has been an elected member of the Innu Council of Pessamit since 2012. As an advisor, his role is to work for the entire population of Pessamit by acting as a facilitator and as a transmission belt between the Council and the sectors that serve him. are assigned. At the level of Nitassinan de Pessamit, he is actively involved in several boards of directors, working committees and consultation tables related in particular to socio-economic development. Mr. Hervieux places language, culture and Innu-Aitun at the heart of his priorities.
MARIE-JOSEE
HEAVEN
ADMINISTRATOR
Currently director of the economic development department of the City of Baie-Comeau and very involved in her community, Marie-Josée Paradis was an economic development advisor for the Government of Quebec for twenty years. A graduate in business administration (UQAC), Ms. Paradis is known for her capacity for ideation, her political sense and as a person exercising positive and mobilizing leadership in her community.
MICHAEL
BERUBE
ADMINISTRATOR
With a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, Michel Bérubé was the general manager of Transport Québec (Côte-Nord) for nearly ten years. Involved in the maritime sector from the start of his career, he participated in the design of several wharves and harbors in Eastern Quebec. Mr. Bérubé has several years of experience in personnel management, financial management and transportation infrastructure management throughout the Côte-Nord region.
HUBERT
BOLDUC
OBSERVER
Proudly committed to the development of Quebec and its regions, Hubert Bolduc was appointed in 2019 president of Investissement Quebec International, the foreign investment prospecting and export assistance agency of the Quebec state. Previously, he held the positions of President and CEO of Montreal International, Vice-President, Communications and Public Affairs of Cascades, and he was also Advisor to the Premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_
