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Honorary chairs

CONCORDIA CHANCELLOR

Jonathan Wener 
BComm 71
Chairman and chief executive · ‎Canderel

André R. Desmarais
BComm 78, LLD 07
President & Co-Chief Executive Officer · ‎Power Corporation of Canada

Darren Entwistle
BA 86, LLD 12
Chief Executive Officer · ‎Telus

Gerald T. McCaughey
BComm 81
President and CEO · ‎Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (retired)

Marie-José Nadeau
Honcilorary Chair · ‎World Energy Council

Richard J. Renaud
BComm 69, LLD 09
Chairman and CEO · ‎TNG Corporation

Mutsumi Takahashi
BA 79, MBA 95, LLD 13
Chief news anchor · ‎CTV Montreal News

Regional Volunteers

Montreal

VICE-CHAIR

Norman E. Hébert Jr.
BComm 77
President and CEO · Groupe Park Avenue

VICE-CHAIR

Françoise Bertrand
LLD 13
Chair · Board of directors, VIA Rail Canada Inc.

VICE-CHAIR

Helene F. Fortin
BComm 79, FCPA, FCA, IAS.A, ICD.D
Partner · LFB cpa, s.e.n.c.r.l./LLP

Monique Jérôme-Forget
Special Advisor · Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Peter Kruyt
BComm 78
Vice President · Power Corporation of Canada

Lillian Vineberg
BFA 83
Artist, administrator and political activist

Toronto and Ontario

HONORARY VICE-CHAIR

Dominic D’Alessandro
BSc 67, LLD 98
President/CEO · Manulife Financial Corp. (retired)

HONORARY VICE-CHAIR

Frederick H. Lowy
LLD 98
Former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University

HONORARY VICE-CHAIR

Brian I. Neysmith
BSc 66
Head of Canadian Bond Rating Service (retired)

VICE-CHAIR

Roy Firth
BComm 75
President · TruVest Capital Limited

VICE-CHAIR

Jacques Goulet Jr.
BSc 88
President · Sun Life Canada

Antoinette Bozac
BA 78
Senior External Counsel · Metrolinx

Louis Gagnon
BSc 88
Chief Operating Officer · Foresters Financial

David Gibbins
BComm 80
Corporate Advisory Board · InventionShare

Pina Starnino
BA 85
Vice President, Operations · FedEx Express Canada

East Coast

VICE-CHAIR

Patricia Lenkov
MBA 86
Founder and President · Agility Executive Search LLC

VICE-CHAIR

Julie Richard
BA 96
Chief Compliance Officer Private Banking · Brown Brothers Harriman

J. Roy Pottle
BComm 81, MBA 85
Chairman ND CEO · American Messaging Services, LLC

Roma Tretiak
BA 92
Senior Director, Medical Quality Assurance · Pfizer

West coast

HONORARY VICE-CHAIR

Peter W. Webster
Chair · Board of Trustees, R. Howard Webster Foundation

VICE-CHAIR

Candice A. Alderson
BA 93
Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Investments · Ledcor Group of Companies

VICE-CHAIR

John Paul Harrison
BA 92

VICE-CHAIR

Rudy Kerklaan
BSc 75, MBA 77
Vice Chairman · Connor, Clark & Lunn Private Capital Ltd.

VICE-CHAIR

Robert D. Philip
BA 70, MA 86

VICE-CHAIR

Rebecca Reeve Henderson
MA 07
Founder · Rsquared Communication

Asia

HONORARY VICE-CHAIR

William Yip
BA 67, LLD 98

VICE-CHAIR – HONG KONG

Dennis Y.M. Chan
BComm 77

VICE-CHAIR – SHANGHAI

Dominic Desmarais
BComm 00

VICE-CHAIR – SHANGHAI

Wayne Wu
BEng 88, MEng 96

VICE-CHAIR – BEIJING

Warren (Gang) Tian
MBA 04

VICE-CHAIR – BEIJING

Winston Kan
BAdmin 81

VICE-CHAIR – BEIJING

Chen Zhang
BComm 98, MBA 03

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