Board of Directors

Mr. Claude Bergeron is a lawyer, corporate director, and advisor. He worked for over 35 years at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("CDPQ"), including 30 years in senior management positions. He was Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer from 2009 to 2023, in addition to serving as Head of Depositor Relations from 2018 to 2023. Previously, he was Vice President of Legal Affairs and Secretary from 1993 to 2009. He received the National Excellence Award post-ZSA for his role in restructuring the Canadian commercial paper market during the 2008 financial crisis.

Before that, he worked at the Quebec Ministry of Revenue as a litigation lawyer, before being appointed Deputy Director and Division Chief.

Mr. Bergeron holds a law degree from the University of Montreal and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1979. He later completed studies in administrative sciences at HEC Montreal in 1991. He holds an International MBA in Financial Services and Insurance from The Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Mr. Bergeron has been invited for several years to economic, academic, accounting, and financial circles as an expert and speaker on risk management. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since May 23, 2025.

Denis Bolduc is General Secretary of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ). He sits on the FTQ Executive Committee and has been a Fonds de solidarité FTQ Board member since June 2016.

Mr. Bolduc served as President of the Québec division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) from June 2016 to December 2019, and was a member of the CUPE National Executive Board and President of CUPE Québec Local 1450 from 2006 to 2011. He was also President of CUPE Québec's Conseil provincial du secteur des communications (CPSC) from March to May 2011 and General Secretary of CUPE Québec from May 2011 to June 2016.

A graduate of Cégep de Jonquière, where he studied media art and technology, Mr. Bolduc worked as a journalist at the CKCV-AM radio station in Québec City from 1985 to 1986, then at Le Journal de Québec from 1986 to 2011. He was the editor of the free daily newspaper Média Matin from 2007 to 2008.

The first woman to be appointed President and CEO of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Janie C. Béïque focuses her actions on three main themes: sustainable development, retirement planning and what she likes to call “societal returns.” A lawyer by training, she has worked in business and corporate law and in the investment industry. Janie’s expertise has been recognized by her peers as well as by the business and political communities. She has twice been named as an Innovation Leader by the Government of Canada. Holder of a law degree from Université de Montréal, Janie was called to the Québec Bar in 1991 and is entered on the Roll of the Order of Advocates. In 2015, she earned an MBA from Georgetown University in the U.S. and from ESADE University in Spain. Janie is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and sits on the boards of Groupe CH, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal and the Société GALOPH, a non-profit organization. She was co-chair of the 50th Centraide of Greater Montréal fundraising campaign.

Daniel Cloutier is the Québec director of Unifor. From July 2014 to April 2022, when he was elected Québec director, he served as the union’s national representative for health and safety and the environment, as well as coordinator of the Service de défense des accidentés du travail. Before that, he was the service representative of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), one of the founding unions of Unifor. He subsequently served in various capacities, including as local president. 

Daniel Cloutier’s union career began in 1990 at Purolator Courier.  Upon being hired by the CEP as a service representative in 1997, Mr. Cloutier was initially assigned to the petrochemical industry, representing groups at Petro-Canada, Petromont, Olin and Hercules. He was also put in charge of several groups in other sectors, including the media, where he represented members at the CTV station. This broad range of experiences gave him the opportunity to work in several regions of Québec as well as in the rest of Canada. 

During his 17 years of representing members, he has led numerous negotiations, including several at the national level. Throughout the years, he has also defended multiple files before the Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité au travail (CNESST), arbitration boards and the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT). 

Mr. Cloutier is a Board member of Envirocompétence and Multiprévention, an occupational health and safety association. He has taken part in several international missions to Belgium, Haiti and Algeria, where he participated in, among others, bargaining and market economy workshops.  Daniel Cloutier joined the Fonds de solidarité FTQ Board of Directors in May 2022. 

Michel Cyr has demonstrated his team leadership abilities in many large real estate development projects in Canada, the United States and Europe. With technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of the real estate market, he has over 40 years of experience in planning, financing and project execution.

Mr. Cyr began his career in consulting engineering. He then went on to hold management positions at various real estate firms including Grilli, Solim, SITQ and Ivanhoé Cambridge. Since 2015, he has worked as a strategic advisor on major real estate projects.

M. Cyr has been a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec since 1975. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in engineering from Polytechnique Montréal as well as an MBA in finance from HEC Montréal.

Mr. Denis Labrèche has over 30 years of experience in business valuation, financial litigation, and mergers and acquisitions across various sectors. From 1987 to 2012, he was a partner at Ernst & Young, where he had the opportunity to participate in several significant mandates and operations, as well as act as an expert witness in court for numerous cases.

He has also been entrusted with numerous mandates related to venture capital for the Government of Quebec, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and the Société générale de financement du Québec. He has served as a financial advisor to major companies such as Provigo, Metro, RONA, Bell Canada, and the Canadian Red Cross.

Throughout his career, he has been very active, presenting conferences and leading numerous seminars on business valuation and financing, in addition to writing articles on the subject that have appeared in Commerce magazine and the La Presse newspaper. He has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators and Réseau Capital. Mr. Labrèche is an expert in business valuation (EEE-1984) and a chartered professional accountant. He was on the honor roll for the chartered accountant exam in 1978.

Mr. Labrèche has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators and Réseau Capital. He has actively participated in several fundraising campaigns for non-profit organizations, including Centraide, the Centre Immaculée-Conception, and other organizations. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since September 28, 2013.

Gervais Levasseur is a seasoned manager with extensive experience in corporate strategy. He has spent most of his career at Ivanhoé Cambridge, an international real estate investment, development and management firm belonging to Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. He has been a strategic planning and management consultant since 2015.

During his tenure at Ivanhoé Cambridge, Mr. Levasseur was Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer from 1992 to 2014. His main responsibilities included financial corporate strategy and planning, treasury and finance, valuation and financial analysis, internal control, accounting policies and financial reporting, taxation and management information systems (information technology). Gervais Lavasseur began his career at KPMG, after which he went on to serve as Chief Accountant and Controller at CN Real Estate. Prior to his arrival at Ivanhoé Cambridge, he was Controller at SNC Lavalin.

Mr. Levasseur earned an accounting degree from HEC Montréal and holds the designation of CPA, CA from the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés (CPA) du Québec.

Martine Philibert is a corporate director with more than 20 years of experience in real estate investment. Over the course of her career, she has held strategic management positions for the real estate subsidiaries of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), one of the world's largest real estate investors and Canada's second-largest pension fund. As Senior Vice-President and Vice-President between 2011 and 2022, she served on the Executive Committee and Investment Committee of Ivanhoé Cambridge, and represented the company on several external boards and committees. As CDPQ's representative, she also sat on the board of Novatech Group from 2022 to 2024.

Her holistic business vision and pragmatism are among her greatest strengths, along with her ability to easily navigate complex environments with multiple stakeholders. Dynamic and inquisitive, she is constantly on the lookout for innovation and is committed to sustainable value creation in order to build a better society.

Ms. Philibert holds degrees from HEC Montréal and McGill University.

Dino Rambidis has more than 30 years of experience and an impressive track record in senior financial positions with public and private companies in various sectors. Passionate about finance, he worked for over a decade at PSP Investments as Vice-President, Finance and Operations. He also successively held the position of Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance, (CFO) at Fiera Capital, Stornoway Diamond, and Leddartech, a leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles.

An avid reader and sportsman, Mr. Rambidis holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University and a Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy from McGill University. He also holds the CPA designation.