Strengths and Expertise

• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor Law degree.
  
• More than 13 years experience in advising and coaching businesses in the agri-food industry.
  
• Strategic management and financial performance.
  
• Business diagnosis.
  
• Business financial analysis.
  
• Financial structure optimisation.
  
• Development of an investment program for innovative businesses of the biofood industry.

Achievements

• Investment adviser, SGF Soquia.
  
• Consulting Services Director, KPMG.
  
• Financial Consulting Director, Ernst & Young.
  
• Founding President, Avencis services conseil inc.
  
• Funding for dozens of businesses in the agri-food industry.
  
• Portfolio diagnosis of a venture capital fund in the agri-food sector.
  
• Business coaching for major projects: financing, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
  
• Participation in an important Canadian study on nutraceuticals and functionnal food.
  
• Director for many agri-food businesses.
  
• Many business transactions in the nutraceuticals and functional food industries in Québec.
  
• Participation in many cross-sectional analyses.
• Expert advisor for the Quorum of the Canadian Technology Network (CTN).