Pierre Boivin, O.C., C.Q. is the President and CEO of Claridge Inc., a private investment firm that represents the interests of the Bronfman family. He leads a team of professionals in developing a diversified portfolio of private, public market and real estate investments.

In addition to being a member of Claridge Inc.’s board of directors, Pierre Boivin, O.C., C.Q. also sits on the boards of the National Bank of Canada, Canadian Tire, The CH Group (Montreal Canadiens, evenko, Spectra) and Solotech. Moreover, he’s chairman of the board of directors of the Quartier de l’innovation de Montréal (QI) and co-chair of the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) cluster Orientation Committee.

Pierre Boivin, O.C., C.Q. is also very involved in fostering entrepreneurship and acts as entrepreneur-trainer at the École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce and as a facilitator for Institute of Leadership in Management programs. He is the founder and chairman of the board of the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation and co-chairman of CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation’s major campaign Healing More Better. In 2009, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Montréal and made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and he was named “most committed top executive” by Les Affaires in 2015. He was made a member (knight) of l’Ordre national du Québec in 2017.

A corporate director and international consultant, Louise Roy is currently Chair of the Board and a Visiting Fellow at CIRANO.

Louise Roy has held́ senior management positions in the urban transportation, air transportation and communications industries. She waś CEO of the Société de transport de Montréal (1985-1992), Executive Vice President for the Americas of Air France at its Paris headquarters (1994-1997), CEO of Telemedia Communications Inc. (1997-2000) and Executive Vice President of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) (2000-2003).

Since September 2003, Ms. Roy has been a Visiting Fellow at CIRANO and, since 2012, she has chaired the Board of Directors of this Center for Applied Research in Public Policy. She was Chancellor and Chair of the Board of the University of Montreal from 2008 to 2018 and was named Chancellor Emeritus.

During her career, she has also served as a director of Power Financial Corporation and Intact Financial Corporation, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), Montreal International, Provigo Inc, Laurentian Bank of Canada, Videotron Ltd. and Domtar Corporation. She has chaired the Board of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, a cultural granting organization. Ms. Roy is currently a director of the Opéra de Montréal, the Montreal International Music Competition Foundation (MIMC) and the Montreal Airport.