Dr Alexandra Dawson – Associate Professor, JMSB

Dr Alexandra Dawson is an Associate Professor of Management and holds the CIBC Distinguished Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business in Montreal, Canada. After graduating at the Università degli Studi in Palermo, Italy, she pursued an MSc Econ at the London School of Economics and a PhD […]
Cecilia Del Re – Councilor, City of Florence

Cecilia Del Re was born in Florence on November 7th 1982. She is an labour lawyer, with a PhD in Comparative Law from the University of Florence. She graduated in Florence with top marks and honours, but interspersed her studies with several semesters abroad; at the University of Leicester in England with the Erasmus program; […]
Mathieu Charbonneau – General manager, CargoM

Mathieu Charbonneau holds a bachelor’s degree in urban and social geography from UQAM and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the School of Management Sciences. After teaching at the Collège de Maisonneuve in the geography department, he joined the Association québécoise du transport et des routes (AQTR) in 2004 as technical director. In […]
Rita Cucchiara – Full Professor at UNIMORE and Director of National Laboratory AIIS (CINI)

Rita Cucchiara (MS in Electronic Engineering 1989, Phd in Computer Engineering 1992 from the University of Bologna, Italy) is full professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she heads the AImageLab group. Since 2018 she is Director of the CINI National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, with the support […]
Andréanne Leduc

Andréanne Leduc is a core member of the Industrial Goods practice area at The Boston Consulting Group. She is part of the leadership team for the firm’s Montreal office. She also spends time advancing artificial intelligence (AI) in Canada. Since joining the firm in 2013, Andréanne has worked across several industries including aerospace, mining, engineering, […]
Marie-Pierre Faure

Marie Pierre Faure holds a PhD in Neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal. For more than 25 years, she has built bridges between academic “knowledge” and “know-how” and innovative companies in the health sciences. Over the course of her career, Marie-Pierre has repeatedly succeeded in passing on an idea to one or more proven and […]
Luigi Lepanto

Dr. Luigi Lepanto is Director of Professional Services in the Medical and University Affairs Division of the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). He is also a clinical full professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, and Nuclear Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal. He has a secondary […]
Aymeric Dussart – Aéroports de Montréal

Aymeric Dussart has been Vice-President of Technology and Innovation at Aéroports de Montréal since January 2020, at which time the organization decided to create this new position on its management committee. All of the airport authority’s IT activities fall under his govern. Prior to assuming his current position, he held various positions within ADM’s Finance […]
François Croteau

François Croteau détient un baccalauréat en histoire et histoire de l’art de l’Université de Montréal, un MBA de l’ESG-UQÀM, de même qu’un doctorat sur la gouvernance urbaine à Montréal. Il a été chercheur à la Chaire de responsabilité sociale et de développement durable de l’UQÀM et chargé de cours au MBA. En plus d’être maire […]