Honorary degree citation - Xavier-Henri Hervé

By: Martin Pugh, November 2011

Mr. Chancellor, it is my honour to present to you Mr. Xavier-Henri Hervé, President and COO, Mechtronix Systems.

New information technologies in the last thirty years seem to have got their start in basements and garages with innovators, like Gates, Jobs and Wozniak, tinkering with new ideas. So did our honorary degree recipient begin his career here at Concordia as a student in mechanical engineering, working on a project that would become both a passion and enterprise – the flight simulator. Xavier-Henri Hervé and his collaborators took that innovation to new levels and with it created a leading Montreal and Canadian enterprise in Mechtronix. We are in