Charles is an Associate Principal in SECOR’s Strategy Practice.
At SECOR, Charles supports executives develop and implement their strategic plans. In particular, Charles’ mandates have focused on creating sustained value through growth and diversification. Charles’ clients include multinationals in the consumer products, consumer packaged goods, financial services and commodities sectors. Charles also has significant experience in the areas of new business development and acquisition and divestiture support. Prior to joining SECOR, Charles spent 8 years working for multinationals in the area of supply chain management.
Renaud Beauchesne has over 25 years of experience in consulting, management and executive positions.
Mr. Beauchesne recently joined the SECOR team as a partner and is in charge of our Quebec-City office. He is also a member of several boards and government advisory committees at the federal and provincial levels
A professional in human resources management, Richard Blain has extensive experience in operations management and finance as well. In his more than 20 years of business, he developed and implemented human resource strategies that increased the efficiency of the firms that he worked for. Mr. Blain has worked in various industries, in particular in the retail trade, the mining sector and public transport. He is known for his ability to identify challenges that companies need to face and for implementing management practices designed to increase organizational efficiency and profitability within a growing and changing environment.
Richard Blain is an expert in managing talent and developing competencies, mobilizing resources, improving work climates, diagnosing organisational problems and handling employee communications. He also has great skill in succession management, due diligence reviews, post-acquisition integration, business process reviews, work group facilitation and coaching managers.
Mr. Blain has held a fair number of executive positions in human resources management. He was Vice-President Human Resources of BouClair Inc., Réno-Dépôt Inc. and the Montreal Stock Exchange. He also filled several management and professional positions for Cambior and the STM. Mr. Blain is a Board member for Moisson Montréal and for the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines et en relations industrielles agréés du Québec.
Marc brings 9 years of strategy consulting and 25 years of industry experience to SECOR. He is a senior strategy consultant focusing on industry analysis and restructuring strategy and the development of business models for emerging opportunities. Marc specializes in the creation of public/private multi-stakeholder business models and the negotiation of the associated contract relationships involving domestic and/or international stakeholders. Marc’s expertise spans across several industry sectors including aerospace, utilities, health care, gaming and telecommunications. Marc has worked directly with both federal and provincial ministries, crown corporations and regulators, as well as with the private sector, municipalities, and non-profit organizations.
Prior to joining SECOR in January 2008, Marc was the principal consultant for Strategic Gaming Innovations and a manager within the strategy and transformation practice at CapGemini. While in these roles, he led the development of strategy and business innovation implementation in the charitable gaming sector for clients in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Prior to his career in strategy consulting, Marc helped develop and negotiate the international agreements defining Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station Program.
James brings 20 years of consulting experience to SECOR, having held senior roles with several leading global strategy consulting firms. James has advised clients through pre-deal strategy issues, and post-merger integration management. His clients are Canadian and global leaders of capital intensive sectors such as the resources, telecommunications and transportation industries, as well as service sectors such as information services and consumer products.
James has conducted a number of studies on behalf of government and industry groups on public policy issues such as competitiveness, industry strategy, and international trade. He has directed other public and private initiatives on economic issues such as foreign investment and globalization. Moreover, James has been a frequent speaker throughout North America in the print and television media on various topics.
Recently, James spent more than a year seconded to a Canadian-headquartered global firm as a senior advisor on strategic planning and corporate development where he was involved in pre-deal strategic work through to post-merger integration planning.
Alastair Caddick is an Associate Partner at SECOR Consulting based in Vancouver.
Alastair has fifteen years of management consulting experience and has worked across a broad range of industries including energy, telecommunications, financial services, health care and the public sector with industry leading clients in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Alastair has developed a broad and robust set of consulting skills from his experiences including: leading strategic planning efforts; conducting operational diagnostics and transformation planning for clients looking to improve their performance; leading customer strategy efforts aimed at better understanding customer needs and design strategies to better meet those needs.
Alastair started his career with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) working with Fortune 500 companies across North America before spending several years in Europe consulting and advising large European based multi-nationals. Over the past 7 years, Alastair has been leading client engagements for RPO Management Consultants in British Columbia.
Alastair currently sits on the Board of the Ivey Alumni Association.
Mario-Jacques has a rich and varied career path: sales supervisor for the Hudson’s Bay Company, educator and then director of the Fashion Marketing program for LaSalle College in Montreal (Canada), he then took over management of the educational services and the Fashion Marketing program in Singapore and became General Manager in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He has been living in France since 1995, where he has worked as an independent consultant, coach and trainer before joining the consulting firm of Ariade. He is French Canadian and is bilingual (English French).
Jeff joined SECOR in November 2009 and focuses on clients’ organization performance and corporate growth challenges.
Jeff brings over 10 years of management consulting experience to SECOR. At McKinsey & Company he worked on the earliest research for the War for Talent initiative, and helped clients improve performance through organization levers including organization design & development, talent management, high performing organization culture change, Human Resources functional reviews, and targeted enhancements to HR processes such as executive succession planning, incentive compensation, leadership assessment and development, and HR systems. For eight years, he was a founding leader of McKinsey’s global Growth & Innovation practice. In the latter, he helped clients kick-start, accelerate or sustain top-line-driven profitable growth by assisting leaders to define their aspirations, developing corporate and business unit growth strategies, build new businesses, and organize for growth. His clients have spanned the globe in over 20 countries, and included industries as diverse as financial services, retail, resources, communications, chemicals, pulp & paper, airlines, and automotive.
Before and following his time at McKinsey, Jeff held Human Resources roles with large corporations including Imperial Oil (EXXON), AlliedSignal (Honeywell) and American Express, culminating with Senior Vice President positions with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and MD Financial, a $26 billion asset wealth management company targeted at Canadian physicians. His 20+ years of Human Resources experience span all disciplines including support to Board HR & Compensation committees, total rewards including executive compensation, employee & labour relations, organization development, learning & development, succession planning, executive search and recruitment, plus additional responsibilities such as volunteer programs, language services, strategic planning, and health & safety.
Madeleine Chenette is Chair of the Board of Directors of SECOR Group. Instrumental in the growth of the company where she has been managing partner and successively led its customer strategy practice, leadership and transformation practice, and innovation development. Madeleine is now the Global Lead of all intellectual capital enhancement and development for the Group. With extensive experience in three continents, she is a respected and engaging speaker for international conferences on trends and new best practices.
Madeleine compelling views of business challenges are based on extensive global research and twenty years of experience in diversified sectors such as finance, retail, resources, energy, media, telecom as well as health and tourism. Under her leadership, a unique team of savvy business people, creative strategists and executives of top organizations wake up everyday to push back frontiers and win the new market race. National and international clients from TSX listed, Fortune 500 and crown corporations look to her teams to develop their innovation and leadership capabilities.
Madeleine holds a master’s degree in business management from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. Before joining SECOR, she was a leader of a privately owned health-care company where she successfully merged three elderly homes and designed a totally innovative housing concept for increasing the well-being of its residents and their families.
An eclectic sportswoman, Madeleine also values community involvement and has worked on the boards of, and led pro bono strategic reflection, for the Orchestre Symphonique des jeunes de Montréal, the Women in Finance, Women at the Top, the YWCA and, in 2008, sponsored the fundraising event of Les filles électriques, a creative organization for interdisciplinary events related to poetry.
Today, Madeleine is currently the Executive Vice-president and, in August, will be President of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Club based in Montreal. She is fluent in English and French.
Christine Cherrière has more than 20 years of professional experience in human resources development, particularly with large corporations: SANOFI, an ELF subsidiary – SITA, a SUEZ subsidiary.
She has facilitated sessions on career management policy and high talent assessment with human resource executives of holding companies, and manages the recruitment and training services support function.
Philippe Collas is the Mobilization Practice Leader for SECOR and a Principal at our Montreal Office.
Philippe brings 20 years of management experience to SECOR having held different positions and senior roles within the AXA Group (Insurance and Asset Management leader). Philippe was head of staff of the IT Group and developed the IT Group’s strategic planning, group reporting, vendor relations and skills management. In addition, Philippe was Group V.P. Human Resources Development (including surveys, Corporate University management, and Top management meetings). Philippe was also CFO of AXA Millésimes (an AXA subsidiary, managing real-estate and wine production). Philippe spent more than 10 years at AXA’s head office, where he was involved in pre-merger and post-merger integration activities.
Philippe developed a corporate university for a large co-operative financial group in Canada as well as developing a mobilization survey. He has conducted more than 85 surveys in 50 different companies. Philippe is actively involved in business training and development, at Sciences Po Paris and UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal,).
Marcel Côté is a senior partner and a co-founder of Secor.
Marcel is well-known for working closely with CEO's to develop value creating strategy at leading Canadian companies. Its 30 years of experience at Secor has given him a wide exposure to a variety of issues and several industries. He is particularly known for its strategic insights in business situations, and is associated with several major transactions and turn-around. For the past ten years, he has also been active in France, where he brings a North American perspective to strategy development, working closely with several corporations at the CEO level.
Marcel's key area of focus is strategy. In that capacity, he has assisted CEOs and their senior management team in rethinking their strategy and unleashing new ways of approaching their business strategy. He is also increasingly taking an interest in change management strategy to boost the organizational effectiveness of large enterprises. Marcel has extensive experience in working with task forces made of both managers and consultants working on strategic projects. He has been particularly active in basic industries, finance, retailing, media and telecommunications. In recent years,Marcel has also been advising clients in France, bringing an North American perspective to their strategy issues
Over its career, Marcel has also been involved in the public policy arena. An economist by training, he has worked as a senior aide in both the Prime Minister Office in Ottawa and the Premier Office in Québec City. He has sat on the Boards of various public policy Think Tanks and has presided the Board of the Public Policy Forum. He is a frequent commentator on public policy issues, with a special in interest on growth, innovation and productivity and on Québec issues. For the past 15 years, Marcel has also written the back page column in the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' monthly magazine.
André COUPET is an expert in helping executive management teams looking to focus on customer relations to differentiate themselves in the market and in helping corporations develop customer relations cultures: from measuring mobilization toward customer relations to aligning the organization and its functions with the customer relations culture.
André holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Paris as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Sherbrooke.
Over the last 15 years, Philippe CRUELLAS has designed and developed social psychological practices and approaches dedicated to guiding change in large international firms and in European business schools.
With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Graeme specializes in the industrial products and manufacturing, automotive and financial services industries. He has deep experience in developing and implementing organic growth strategies, conceiving and executing acquisition strategies, and implementing complex change management programs. He also has significant experience in advising the owners of start-ups in the renewable energy and solar power sectors.
Carole Deniger has over 15 years' experience carrying out strategic analyses for major clients in the culture, communications, media and entertainment industries. She works closely with top executives of several majors firms, primarily identifying major strategic issues and developing growth-enhancing and value-creating business models.
She is the author of various studies such as An alyse de positionnement de l'industrie du jeu interactif au Québec,(analysis of the interactive games industry positioning in Quebec) Le marché de la communication au Québec : chiffres clés et enjeux (the communications market in Quebec: key figures and issues); The Emergence of the TV Portal and others.
Daniel Denis is an expert in economic and sectoral studies, as well as in strategic planning and analysis.
Mr. Denis’ 21 years in consulting have given him a solid experience in identifying strategic issues facing organizations and developing suitable strategies for them. His expertise ranges from competitive analysis and positioning strategies for public and private organizations to performance assessments of competitor or benchmark company strategies. A specialist in economic and industrial analysis as well as in regional development, Daniel Denis has developed significant expertise in the fields of finance, life sciences, IT sectors and energy. He is frequently called upon to provide expert analytical advice to various government bodies, associations and the media on economic or industrial issues.
Before joining SECOR, he worked for and important financial institution.
From 2000 to 2005 he worked for SECOR Europe in their Paris office, where he developed the strategic leadership practice. In the course of his duties he helped a large number of companies deal with transformational and leadership issues. Claude is an experienced facilitator, conference speaker and consultant. Keenly interested in the development potential of human dynamics, Claude has centred his professional practice on people, culture and strategy. He has developed a real knack for guiding executive teams through complex transformation issues.
Alain Dumas is an expert in business strategy and business plan development and follow-up. He is managing partner of SECOR's Quebec offices and is in charge of finance and administration for SECOR as well as being on its board of directors.
Alain Dumas has more than 15 years of experience in business accounting, auditing, consultation and administration. This experience has given him a solid background in various fields such as diagnostic analyses, business strategies, turnaround and business plans, scorecards, financial modeling and budgetary processes.
He regularly advises top corporate and institutional executives on major issues, business processes, and implementation of their action plans at both the organizational and financial level.
Before joining SECOR, Alain Dumas distinguished himself as audit manager at KPMG where he was involved in several mandates to turn companies around and handle their public share offerings while dealing with other major auditing mandates at the same time. He was also director and comptroller of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Philippe Frizon is an Associate Principal in SECOR’s Montreal Office.
With SECOR since 1999, Philippe advises executives on strategy, to support their growth projects and their strategic planning. He has also conducted a number of projects implementing new strategic directions and driving major change.
Over the years, Philippe has acquired extensive experience in the financial services and media and telecommunications fields, both in Europe and in Canada. He has also guided many clients in the manufacturing, transportation and real estate sectors.
Over the past few years, he has been in charge of developing SECOR’s strategy practice, and from 2004 to 2007, he contributed to the growth of SECOR’s operations in Paris.
Before joining SECOR, Philippe worked for SNC-Lavalin in Montréal on developing projects in Canada and internationally, for an agrochemical company in West Africa, as well as for Danone in Paris.
David Griller is an expert in technology and innovation and has a passion for life sciences. His clients range from major pharmaceutical companies to small biotechnology firms involved in drug discovery and diagnostics. David works with them on broad strategic issues as well as operational challenges. He also works with the public sector providing advice on policy and technology trends.
David has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University College London and is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. David spent half his career as a research chemist at the National Research Council of Canada and the other half in business. He has worked in management, strategic planning, and consulting with Plastic Constructions Inc. Deloitte Haskins and Sells, and KPMG.
Paul Hiom is the Managing Partner of the Vancouver Office.
Paul brings over 15 years of consulting experience to SECOR, having previously founded RPO Management Consultants. He has significant experience working with a wide variety of clients, with extensive focus in government, insurance, health care, transportation and telecommunications.
Paul specializes in business and technology transformation including strategic outsourcing and enterprise technology acquisition. Paul focuses on opportunities to work with clients seeking to drive successful organization change through operations streamlining and enabling technologies. He brings extensive experience with program structuring and guidance for joint-disciplinary teams drawn from multiple organizations. In addition, he has led business case development and software acquisition for multiple clients.
Prior to his consulting career, Paul was a co-founder of the Centre for Operations Excellence at UBC, an applied research organization in the field of Operations Research. Paul also holds a graduate degree in Management Science and an undergraduate degree in Information Technology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. While pursuing his graduate degree, Paul conducted original research in the application of probabilistic models and simulation to achieve significant service and cost improvements for large inbound call centres.
Stephen has over fifteen years of management consulting experience, for much of which he has led large-scale strategy and business transformation projects. Stephen has a broad base of project experience with public and private sector clients with a focus on the health and financial sectors. He works closely with senior executives to develop clarity and new insight for business strategy through first principles thinking and robust, comprehensive analytics. He also brings proven expertise and experience in mobilizing organizations to follow through on strategy and achieve outstanding performance.
Prior to Secor, Stephen was a founding partner of RPO Management Consultants, a leading national consultancy; and a co-founder of the Centre for Operations Excellence (COE), a strategic partnership between the University of British Columbia and a number of leading North American businesses.
Kathy brings over ten years of consulting and industry experience. She is a senior strategy consultant specializing in business strategy, transformation, customer experience and new market entry strategy. Kathy has worked with clients across multiple sectors in developing growth strategies and capitalizing on new business opportunities. She has also worked closely with organizations in planning and implementing major transformational programs that have resulted in significant improvement in business results.
Kathy has extensive experience in program management, leadership and communications. She brings a collaborative approach in working with clients, demonstrated through her work in facilitating strategic sessions with Board of Directors, Senior Management, and Project Teams. In designing and implementing transformation, Kathy integrates people, process and technology methodologies, combining both strong quantitative analysis with qualitative facilitation techniques to achieve outstanding delivery and results.
Prior to joining SECOR, Kathy was the Strategy and Transformation Consulting Leader at Capgemini Consulting, formerly Ernst & Young Consulting. In addition to Strategy and Transformation, Kathy is known for her ground-breaking work on customer experience, where she assisted clients in designing new business models to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
Nancy Kaplan focuses on advising executives at domestic and global companies on issues related to business strategy. She has worked extensively in the areas of Post Merger Integration, innovation and commercialization, strategic and tactical marketing, customer-centricity, and enterprise-wide transformation. She has particular expertise in communications and media, including mobility, fixed line, and satellite.
Ms. Kaplan has led numerous engagements. As examples, she led the PMI work for the integration of the Enterprise businesses in the recent merger of two global telecommunications companies. She recently directed the strategy development and execution for the Small-Medium Business segment for a major telco. Changes to segmentation, product, channel and on-line strategies and capabilities were targeted to drive a minimum of $500M in revenue lift annually. Ms. Kapaln also led the go-to-market strategy and business model definition for a $1B integrated satellite-terrestrial start-up. The results helped to drive follow-on funding of $300M and save over $600M in capital expenditures.
Ms. Kaplan earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
With more than ten years experience as a consultant, Mélanie Kfoury is an expert in strategy and business planning, market analysis, and sectoral and economic studies.
Her analyses of complex issues enable management teams to agree on a policy direction that yields action strategies. She also carries out strategic industrial and sectoral analyses and assists top management of high-technology companies in deciding upon directions to take.
Before joining SECOR, Mélanie Kfoury worked for two years as an analyst at Accenture.
Ms. L’Heureux has been working as a consultant in strategic business alignment since 1994, both for the public and private sectors, in Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Since joining SECOR Consulting in 1997, she has been actively involved with many organizations wishing to plan and implement transformations in order to better answer their strategic issues: post-merger integration, customer experience re-invention (internal and external), organization design, and performance management.
Ms. Laurent is well known in the Quebec-City region, in the technology and corporate financing sectors. She was President and CEO of the Société Innovatech Québec from 1998 to 2008, after which she was appointed Director of Investment and Economic Development in the Office of the Mayor of Québec. At SECOR, she will primarily be advising technological firms in the Quebec-City region with respect to their development, financing and expansion plans and will assist SECOR’s professional staff in innovation and growth projects.
Joshua Lawson is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Josh is a senior strategy and operations advisor with over 10 years of consulting and industry experience. He has worked in numerous industries with global and national clients in the retail, consumer and packaged goods, high tech and pharmaceutical industries. His expertise includes strategy development, organizational transformation, complex program management and performance management.
Josh’s primary focus for the past five years has been on health system strategy development and deployment. He has worked on client engagements involving the highest levels of system leadership (payer and provider) as well as at major care settings including primary care, large and small community hospitals, academic health science centers and emergency departments.
Josh has worked with clients to develop and deploy strategies to optimize the use of health human resources, design and implement eHealth solutions, manage and reduce wait times for critical services, develop long-term capital investment strategies and negotiate and implement complex, multi-party agreements.
Josh has significant experience working with clients in the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Jocelyn brings 20 years experience with business transformation. He guides and supports executive teams when they must transform their organizational model and their processes, where executive alignment and strategic change management are typically critical to the success of the transformation.
He has led transformation initiatives in support to different business strategies: adapting organization structure and governance to improve effectiveness, ensuring organizational and cultural integration following an acquisition, aligning foreign operations to support rapid expansion, reducing costs at support functions and implementing new technology enabled processes and organization.
Jocelyn's main industries of expertise are aerospace, energy and financial services.
Miles brings over fourteen years of management consulting experience to SECOR. Miles is a highly regarded consultant to the telecommunications and related industries, with extensive international experience, having advised senior executives in North America, Asia and Europe. His clients are leading wireless operators, fixed-line operators, handset manufacturers, wireless platform providers, multinational corporations and government.
Miles was previously a Vice President at CSMG ADVENTIS, a leading provider of strategy consulting services focused on the communications, media and entertainment industries. In addition, Miles was a Vice President in A.T. Kearney's Communications and High Technology Practice in U.S. and Asia, where he focused on serving leading companies in the wireless and related sectors.
Miles also served as a communications subject matter expert to finance, investment companies and start-ups. Miles has been quoted by major US newspapers and trade magazines such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times.
Pierre Lefebvre has over twenty years experience in consulting, transactions, and management, primarily in the fields of finance and infrastructures, in both the private and public sectors.
He was the first CEO of the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec, now called Infrastructure Québec. He set up and then managed this new provincial agency of over thirty employees. The agency was involved in more than $8B worth of projects in transportation, health and culture and received several national and international prizes.
Mr. Lefebvre was a leading figure in most of the province’s major infrastructure projects undertaken over the last few years and was a key player in creating Quebec’s recent policy framework on governance for major public infrastructure projects.
Mr. Lefebvre’s previous experience was primarily in project and corporate financing for Nortel Networks in Toronto, Paris and London and at Price WaterhouseCoopers in Toronto. He also practiced corporate law at Fasken Martineau in Montreal at the beginning of his career.
Philippe started his career for a large financial institution for which he became Senior manager, Human resources development. He started his management consulting career with a large Canadian firm where he became Head of the Human Resources and Compensation practice. When it eventually merged with a leading international consulting firm, as partner in their Corporate Consulting group, Philippe directed reorganization and change initiatives in numerous large Canadian companies.
At SECOR, he helps North American and European companies in either growth & development, merger (post-merger integration) & acquisition (due diligence), and / or strategic repositioning situations.
Doron Melnick is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Doron is a senior strategy and operations consultant with over ten years of experience advising clients in the private and public sectors, including government, healthcare, telecommunications and information technology. His expertise spans the areas of strategic planning, business transformation and performance management.
Doron’s consulting approach is highly collaborative. He makes the most of information and ideas inside a client’s organization, in combination with original research and analysis, to design tailored solutions which are widely supported by stakeholder groups. He also works closely with clients to ensure that planned solutions become reality, from policy and funding approvals through to implementation planning and execution.
Doron has conducted a number of studies on behalf of government on public policy issues such as public service modernization, climate change and healthcare funding.
Before joining SECOR, Doron worked with a global provider of customer experience solutions to the telecom industry, as well as companies in energy services and commercial property management.
Jean-Yves Ménard is an expert in M&A, strategy, marketing and international sales.
He developed extensive skills working in consulting, ranging from diagnoses, action plans, strategic analyses, to merger and acquisition strategies. He has carried out numerous strategic repositioning, marketing and business-plan mandates. Mr. Menard has extensive experience in various fields: cutting-edge technologies, consumer products, distribution, food processing, and the aeronautics and tourist industries.
During his career, Jean-Yves Ménard has held senior positions such as vice-president of sales and development of international business for Systèmes Proxima, president and CEO of Polyquip, and vice-president of sales for AVS Technologies. He also held several senior management positions at Air Canada, the last being first vice-president of sales and operations for Air Canada Vacations.
Françoise POLI manages PERSONA’s team of consultant-coaches. She has extensive experience in human resources acquired in French and international corporations as DHR and DHR Group, within which she guided change and development projects (DUN & BRADSTREET - ICI (pharmaceutical chemistry) XEROX - SODIAAL
After an initial experience in the general management of a consulting firm, Françoise created her own company and then joined SECOR in 2007
Louis brings over fifteen years of strategy consulting experience and five years of industry experience to SECOR. He specializes primarily in financial services in which he works with senior management on issues related to corporate strategy. Louis focuses on assisting banks, insurance companies and other wealth management firms in identifying growth opportunities, improving operations, managing change and ultimately realizing the benefits of these initiatives.
Previously, Louis was an Associate Partner at IBM’s Global Business Solutions, in the financial services practice. Louis is known for his dedication to his clients’ success; this commitment has led to longstanding client relationships, primarily in financial services.
Christian Roy is an expert in innovation studies and strategies.
With over 10 years’ experience in consulting and management, he designs performance indicators and measuring tools that are based on a company’s industrial, strategic and innovation practices. These tools are used to develop relevant action plans to foster company growth or regional economic development. At the international level, Christian Roy has worked on exports, industrial clusters and collaboration between research institutes and industry.
Over the course of his career, he worked as strategic advisor to various companies and institutions. He was also in charge of the first Quebec regional support program for innovation in manufacturing, and carried out its implementation at the participating firms’ executive levels. He was also mandated by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (ACIP), the NRC-IRAP, Economic Development Canada (EDC) and the Ministère du Développement économique de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (MDEIE) to develop an approach using benchmarking as part of strategic planning for SME. He has always worked closely with CEGEPs and universities regarding research support and program management. At the international level, he has worked in exports and in European research exchange programs, specifically with the University of Strasbourg.
Yves Roy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SECOR.
Yves Roy was appointed CEO of SECOR Consulting in June 2007. He has twenty-five years of experience in the consulting field in deployments across the world, advising companies of all sizes. Posted previously in Canada (Montréal), the US (New York and Chicago), Europe (Paris) and Latin-America (Sao Paolo), he has helped manage, acquire and divest of companies in each of these regions. He has also led a mid-size Quebec-based company in manufacturing and distribution of building materials.
Client work includes:
Domestic and international acquisition/alliance strategies
IT Governance and strategy
Employee mobilization measurement and strategy
After more than 20 years of experience in both functional and operational management posts in international contexts and at times of considerable change (Keolis, Framatome RT, Gaz de France), Françoise acquired the conviction that the orchestration of enterprises is successful under certain conditions. Thus, after having occupied positions on executive committees, fully conscious of the difficulty experienced by actors in converging, notably on the way to successfully define the means of attaining strategic objectives, decompartmentalising and cooperating, she decided to join the consultancy in supporting change within executive boards. Following an experience at Oliver Wyman where she supported reorganization projects at every level, she joined Secor in Paris as Managing Partner for activity.
Jean-Pierre Sablé is a partner of SECOR Consulting.
Jean-Pierre's business career spans over 20 years with a clear international footprint (Paris, Montreal and New York). While most of it as a consultant, he also spent several years with vice-president positions in Product Management, Marketing and Customer Services.
Jean-Pierre specializes in working with senior executives of global firms to address their key strategic issues. His unique mix of industry experience, global perspective and change management skills delivers measurable value to clients.
Jean-Pierre's experience is recognized in financial services as he has been a frequent advisor to major players in Europe and North America in the areas of Personal banking and Wealth Management. He also has a depth of experience in utilities, aerospace and information technology sectors. Jean-Pierre's key area of focus is growth strategy, organizational alignment and information technology strategy.
Ken Smith is one of Canada’s most experienced strategy consultants. He has practiced for 24 years, beginning with McKinsey & Company and now with SECOR Consulting, and his work on a range of important business and public policy issues is known and respected in government and in the business community. Throughout his consulting career, he has led the growth and development of new offices and practices. In particular, he was instrumental in developing SECOR from its Quebec base to Canada’s leading strategy consultancy and was ultimately elected Chair of the firm. He is now dedicated full time to client service.
Ken is a recognized expert in industry restructuring, mergers and partnerships. He has published several articles relating to the corporate governance and public policy issues associated with global industry restructuring and international mergers and acquisitions, including his most recent article “Losing (Ownership) Control” in the Harvard Business Review. Earlier, he established and published the first shareholder value based metric of merger success which is now broadly used in the industry, and introduced the application of real options to acquisitions in restructuring industries. His work has been referenced in several books and many of the leading business periodicals around the world.
His client work is focused on the business and public policy issues related to corporate strategy and industry restructuring. Most recently, he has written on the systemic risk issues behind the US financial industry crisis and advised US financial institutions and regulators. In Canada, his work on global industry restructuring helped draw attention to the issues that led to the 2008 federal review of Canadian competitiveness policy. His work on financial services competitiveness, global bancassurance, global nuclear industry restructuring and on the medical isotope crisis is also well known in each of the respective industries and government.
Ken is also active on a volunteer basis in the business and not-for-profit communities. He is the Chair of the Ontario Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors, one of the largest and most active associations for directors in North America. He is on the Board of the Arthritis Society and is a member of the Steering Committee for Financial Literacy. He is also active in US Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the (US) National Association of Corporate Directors, The Toronto Club, the Economic Club of New York and the University Club of Toronto.
After many years in consultancy focused on the economic issues of states/regions and the problems of industrial restructuring, Isabelle turned towards company consultancy. This dual approach, macro then micro economic allowed her to support leadership teams and colleagues in enterprises in developing perspectives relating to both the internal and external challenges of the enterprise.
For 10 years now she has supported the reorganization of such enterprises as France Telecom/Orange, EDF, Roche Pharma and Nouvelles Frontières at some key moments in their history: regulation, change of brand and so on.
Isabelle acquired the conviction that the success of a strategy depends on the ability of a leadership team to share its vision and build with the managers an internal context favourable to its implementation and the mobilization of its teams.
Isabelle is a graduate of ESSEC and joined SECOR at the end of 2008 after 10 years at the office of Izsak Grapin et Associés.
Ms. Stock joined SECOR in 1997, as a strategy consultant. Today she is a specialist with SECOR’s client strategy practice, having developed a unique expertise in helping her clients develop a culture of partnerships as a business enhancement tool. A highly motivated and skilful team player, Oona Stock has developed a solid relationship with her clients who count on her support in long-term projects driving major change.
In 2005, in 2005, she created an event design practice called SECOR Events which she continues to run and developed the firm's Communications and Marketing Department, which she has been directing for the last seven years.
Oona has a master’s in management (human resources) and a bachelor’s in administration (industrial relations). Ms. Stock is a member of the Board of Directors of Ville-Marie Social Services.
David Waldron is a Partner in our Montreal office. He specializes in strategy and risk management for natural resource and complex industrial businesses.
David has spent 18 years helping executive teams form and implement strategies. He started his career advising governments in Alberta on regional economic development. The wide exposure to public sector industrial development issues helped David create a unique and comprehensive strategy practice for multifaceted enterprises. His mandates focus on creating value for businesses by helping them design an appropriate strategy, and ensuring the executive team can and will implement the strategy and then properly manage any corollary risks.
David has consulted for many Canadian based multinational companies in mining, metals and forestry. Beyond commodities, David also works with global sporting goods manufacturing operations, major rail transport equipment manufacturers and aerospace companies in North America and Europe. Since making management risk part of SECOR’s strategy services, David has also had the opportunity to work with leading insurance and re-insurance companies in Canada and abroad.
Though currently based in North America, David was based in our European headquarters in Paris from 2003 to 2004.
Lisa is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Lisa is a senior strategy consultant with over eight years of consulting experience in strategic planning & analysis, growth option development & evaluation, analytical problem solving and large-scale project management. She has advised major Canadian corporations across multiple sectors, including media & telecommunications, financial services, retail, and the public sector. Lisa is also a recognized researcher in the area of merger & acquisition effectiveness.
Before joining SECOR, Lisa's experience included corporate strategy development and implementation for the global consulting firms of CapGemini and Ernst & Young, as well as work with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care in Ontario.
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Charles is an Associate Principal in SECOR’s Strategy Practice.
At SECOR, Charles supports executives develop and implement their strategic plans. In particular, Charles’ mandates have focused on creating sustained value through growth and diversification. Charles’ clients include multinationals in the consumer products, consumer packaged goods, financial services and commodities sectors. Charles also has significant experience in the areas of new business development and acquisition and divestiture support. Prior to joining SECOR, Charles spent 8 years working for multinationals in the area of supply chain management.
Areas of expertise
Corporate strategy development and implementation
Growth and diversification strategies
New business development
Acquisition and divestiture support
Executive team structure and team assessments
Professional Designations and Education
MBA, Strategy & International Business, McGill University
Trilingual, James BAER has 25 years experience in management, strategy and consulting.
Areas of expertise
James is specialized in operational strategy and the use of new technologies in management training. In particular he developed and marketed a SECOR/Les Echos Formation joint offering: “Leadership and Results”.
Professional Designations and Education
A graduate of ESSEC, James Baer also holds an MBA from McGill University in Montreal.
Renaud Beauchesne has over 25 years of experience in consulting, management and executive positions.
Mr. Beauchesne recently joined the SECOR team as a partner and is in charge of our Quebec-City office. He is also a member of several boards and government advisory committees at the federal and provincial levels
Areas of expertise
Strategic planning
Public and private financing
Organization of international distribution networks (North America, Europe and Asia)
Strategic business partnerships (North America and Europe)
Address
2600 Laurier Blvd, Suite 955, 9th floor
Tour de la Cité - entrée 6
Québec (Québec) G1V 4W2
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A professional in human resources management, Richard Blain has extensive experience in operations management and finance as well. In his more than 20 years of business, he developed and implemented human resource strategies that increased the efficiency of the firms that he worked for. Mr. Blain has worked in various industries, in particular in the retail trade, the mining sector and public transport. He is known for his ability to identify challenges that companies need to face and for implementing management practices designed to increase organizational efficiency and profitability within a growing and changing environment.
Richard Blain is an expert in managing talent and developing competencies, mobilizing resources, improving work climates, diagnosing organisational problems and handling employee communications. He also has great skill in succession management, due diligence reviews, post-acquisition integration, business process reviews, work group facilitation and coaching managers.
Mr. Blain has held a fair number of executive positions in human resources management. He was Vice-President Human Resources of BouClair Inc., Réno-Dépôt Inc. and the Montreal Stock Exchange. He also filled several management and professional positions for Cambior and the STM. Mr. Blain is a Board member for Moisson Montréal and for the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines et en relations industrielles agréés du Québec.
Professional Designations and Education
M.B.A. from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal
B.A.A. – Finance from the Université du Québec à Montréal
James brings 20 years of consulting experience to SECOR, having held senior roles with several leading global strategy consulting firms. James has advised clients through pre-deal strategy issues, and post-merger integration management. His clients are Canadian and global leaders of capital intensive sectors such as the resources, telecommunications and transportation industries, as well as service sectors such as information services and consumer products.
James has conducted a number of studies on behalf of government and industry groups on public policy issues such as competitiveness, industry strategy, and international trade. He has directed other public and private initiatives on economic issues such as foreign investment and globalization. Moreover, James has been a frequent speaker throughout North America in the print and television media on various topics.
Recently, James spent more than a year seconded to a Canadian-headquartered global firm as a senior advisor on strategic planning and corporate development where he was involved in pre-deal strategic work through to post-merger integration planning.
Areas of expertise
Corporate strategy development considering related and unrelated growth options
Business strategy development including turnaround and exit situations
Joint venture planning
Acquisition and divestiture planning
Post-merger integration process design and implementation in transportation, telecommunications, and manufacturing
Large scale restructuring projects ranging in focus from organizational strategy and design through to accelerated comprehensive cost reduction efforts
Professional Designations and Education
MBA, Queen's University, Kingston
BA (Honors), Huron College at the University of Western Ontario
Articles and Publications
Navigating the Acquisition Road to Market Leadership, Perspectives, December 2007.
Alastair Caddick is an Associate Partner at SECOR Consulting based in Vancouver.
Alastair has fifteen years of management consulting experience and has worked across a broad range of industries including energy, telecommunications, financial services, health care and the public sector with industry leading clients in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Alastair has developed a broad and robust set of consulting skills from his experiences including: leading strategic planning efforts; conducting operational diagnostics and transformation planning for clients looking to improve their performance; leading customer strategy efforts aimed at better understanding customer needs and design strategies to better meet those needs.
Alastair started his career with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) working with Fortune 500 companies across North America before spending several years in Europe consulting and advising large European based multi-nationals. Over the past 7 years, Alastair has been leading client engagements for RPO Management Consultants in British Columbia.
Alastair currently sits on the Board of the Ivey Alumni Association.
Areas of expertise
Strategic Planning
Customer Experience Strategy (segmentation, customer research, new customer strategies)
Operations Effectiveness (current state diagnostics, future state planning)
Business Transformation (strategy to implementation, business cases, change management)
Professional Designations and Education
Honours degree in business administration (HBA) from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Mario-Jacques has a rich and varied career path: sales supervisor for the Hudson’s Bay Company, educator and then director of the Fashion Marketing program for LaSalle College in Montreal (Canada), he then took over management of the educational services and the Fashion Marketing program in Singapore and became General Manager in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He has been living in France since 1995, where he has worked as an independent consultant, coach and trainer before joining the consulting firm of Ariade. He is French Canadian and is bilingual (English French).
Areas of expertise
A manager at SECOR since 2002, he acts as coach and designs and facilitates sessions aimed at senior executives of large corporations, essentially on corporate personnel development and the human side of change management.
Professional Designations and Education
Mario-Jacques has an MBA from HEC Montréal, is a certified coach, master NLP practitioner and Gestalt practitioner.
Jeff joined SECOR in November 2009 and focuses on clients’ organization performance and corporate growth challenges.
Jeff brings over 10 years of management consulting experience to SECOR. At McKinsey & Company he worked on the earliest research for the War for Talent initiative, and helped clients improve performance through organization levers including organization design & development, talent management, high performing organization culture change, Human Resources functional reviews, and targeted enhancements to HR processes such as executive succession planning, incentive compensation, leadership assessment and development, and HR systems. For eight years, he was a founding leader of McKinsey’s global Growth & Innovation practice. In the latter, he helped clients kick-start, accelerate or sustain top-line-driven profitable growth by assisting leaders to define their aspirations, developing corporate and business unit growth strategies, build new businesses, and organize for growth. His clients have spanned the globe in over 20 countries, and included industries as diverse as financial services, retail, resources, communications, chemicals, pulp & paper, airlines, and automotive.
Before and following his time at McKinsey, Jeff held Human Resources roles with large corporations including Imperial Oil (EXXON), AlliedSignal (Honeywell) and American Express, culminating with Senior Vice President positions with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and MD Financial, a $26 billion asset wealth management company targeted at Canadian physicians. His 20+ years of Human Resources experience span all disciplines including support to Board HR & Compensation committees, total rewards including executive compensation, employee & labour relations, organization development, learning & development, succession planning, executive search and recruitment, plus additional responsibilities such as volunteer programs, language services, strategic planning, and health & safety.
Areas of Expertise
Organization performance improvement
Human Resources leadership
Growth strategy
Business building
Culture change
Professional Designations and Education
MBA from the University of Western Ontario
BA from Queen’s University at Kingston
Articles and Publications
The Alchemy of Growth: Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise, Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley & David White, Perseus Books, 2000 (collaborator and research coordinator)
Three Horizons of Growth: Companies need to balance present operations against future possibilities to ensure success, Mehrdad Baghai and Jeff Chan, National Post, Post 2000 Report on the Nation: Management,
The Alchemy of Growth…and Implications for Human Resources, Human Resources Planning Society Annual Conference, April 19, 2000
Leveraging Diversity to Fill Your Talent Needs, Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto, 1991
Branding The Employee Value Proposition, Strategic HR Management Council, Conference Board of Canada, February 29, 2008
Let Your Business Soar!, Young Presidents Organization, April 10, 2003
Madeleine Chenette is Chair of the Board of Directors of SECOR Group. Instrumental in the growth of the company where she has been managing partner and successively led its customer strategy practice, leadership and transformation practice, and innovation development. Madeleine is now the Global Lead of all intellectual capital enhancement and development for the Group. With extensive experience in three continents, she is a respected and engaging speaker for international conferences on trends and new best practices.
Madeleine compelling views of business challenges are based on extensive global research and twenty years of experience in diversified sectors such as finance, retail, resources, energy, media, telecom as well as health and tourism. Under her leadership, a unique team of savvy business people, creative strategists and executives of top organizations wake up everyday to push back frontiers and win the new market race. National and international clients from TSX listed, Fortune 500 and crown corporations look to her teams to develop their innovation and leadership capabilities.
Madeleine holds a master’s degree in business management from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. Before joining SECOR, she was a leader of a privately owned health-care company where she successfully merged three elderly homes and designed a totally innovative housing concept for increasing the well-being of its residents and their families.
An eclectic sportswoman, Madeleine also values community involvement and has worked on the boards of, and led pro bono strategic reflection, for the Orchestre Symphonique des jeunes de Montréal, the Women in Finance, Women at the Top, the YWCA and, in 2008, sponsored the fundraising event of Les filles électriques, a creative organization for interdisciplinary events related to poetry.
Today, Madeleine is currently the Executive Vice-president and, in August, will be President of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Club based in Montreal. She is fluent in English and French.
Areas of expertise
Working with executive teams that invest in client relations and/or operational excellence strategy in order to stand out in the market
Measuring organizational mobilization and aligning it to strategy
Defining corporate cultural references (diagnosis, target management and, support during implementation)
Designing programs for organizational change (implementation of corporate strategy, development of leadership/management skills)
Streamlining management practices (revising structures, processes and management systems) in terms of corporate strategies, i.e., client strategy, innovation strategy, etc.
Professional Designations and Education
École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal
Member of the Board of Directors of SECOR
Member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Canadian Club
Member of the Board of Groupe Conseil Omnitech (GCO)
555, René-Lévesque blvd. West, 9th floor
Montreal (Quebec) H2Z 1B1
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Philippe Collas is the Mobilization Practice Leader for SECOR and a Principal at our Montreal Office.
Philippe brings 20 years of management experience to SECOR having held different positions and senior roles within the AXA Group (Insurance and Asset Management leader). Philippe was head of staff of the IT Group and developed the IT Group’s strategic planning, group reporting, vendor relations and skills management. In addition, Philippe was Group V.P. Human Resources Development (including surveys, Corporate University management, and Top management meetings). Philippe was also CFO of AXA Millésimes (an AXA subsidiary, managing real-estate and wine production). Philippe spent more than 10 years at AXA’s head office, where he was involved in pre-merger and post-merger integration activities.
Philippe developed a corporate university for a large co-operative financial group in Canada as well as developing a mobilization survey. He has conducted more than 85 surveys in 50 different companies. Philippe is actively involved in business training and development, at Sciences Po Paris and UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal,).
Areas of expertise
Mobilization and engagement measurement and action plans
Corporate alignment strategies
Top executive and managerial development and training activities
Post-merger integration processes
Brand and culture alignment
Surveys and research methodologies
Professional Designations and Education
Diploma, Economics and international trade, Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris
Marcel Côté is a senior partner and a co-founder of Secor.
Marcel is well-known for working closely with CEO's to develop value creating strategy at leading Canadian companies. Its 30 years of experience at Secor has given him a wide exposure to a variety of issues and several industries. He is particularly known for its strategic insights in business situations, and is associated with several major transactions and turn-around. For the past ten years, he has also been active in France, where he brings a North American perspective to strategy development, working closely with several corporations at the CEO level.
Marcel's key area of focus is strategy. In that capacity, he has assisted CEOs and their senior management team in rethinking their strategy and unleashing new ways of approaching their business strategy. He is also increasingly taking an interest in change management strategy to boost the organizational effectiveness of large enterprises. Marcel has extensive experience in working with task forces made of both managers and consultants working on strategic projects. He has been particularly active in basic industries, finance, retailing, media and telecommunications. In recent years,Marcel has also been advising clients in France, bringing an North American perspective to their strategy issues
Over its career, Marcel has also been involved in the public policy arena. An economist by training, he has worked as a senior aide in both the Prime Minister Office in Ottawa and the Premier Office in Québec City. He has sat on the Boards of various public policy Think Tanks and has presided the Board of the Public Policy Forum. He is a frequent commentator on public policy issues, with a special in interest on growth, innovation and productivity and on Québec issues. For the past 15 years, Marcel has also written the back page column in the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' monthly magazine.
Areas of expertise
Assisting senior management in the conduct of strategic reviews
On-going advice to CEO on their strategic issues
Working with senior management task force to develop turn-around strategies
Participating in high level teams working on sensitive merger and acquisitions
Advising on Post Merger Integration
Advising CEOs on Public Policy issues
Professional Designations and Education
Harvard University: Fellow, Center for International Affairs, 1987
André COUPET is an expert in helping executive management teams looking to focus on customer relations to differentiate themselves in the market and in helping corporations develop customer relations cultures: from measuring mobilization toward customer relations to aligning the organization and its functions with the customer relations culture.
André holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Paris as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Sherbrooke.
Areas of expertise
André COUPET is an expert in helping executive management teams looking to focus on customer relations to differentiate themselves in the market and in helping corporations develop customer relations cultures: from measuring mobilization toward customer relations to aligning the organization and its functions with the customer relations culture.
Professional Designations and Education
André holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Paris as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Sherbrooke.
Over the last 15 years, Philippe CRUELLAS has designed and developed social psychological practices and approaches dedicated to guiding change in large international firms and in European business schools.
Areas of expertise
Philippe usually works on site within company teams or sectors: helping a director work on the coherence of his actions; helping a management team build and share its vision; enabling strategic departments that are having difficulties co-operating in reaching a close working relationship and creating value. He guides the activities such that the players decide what to do to change their organizations from within. His role is more that of a facilitator than that of a consultant. Any action stems from listening in-depth to what the players have to say about the situation to understand the energy dynamics of the social system involve in the change. He believes that first you have to “look after the systems” so that those working in them can fully develop their skills.
With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Graeme specializes in the industrial products and manufacturing, automotive and financial services industries. He has deep experience in developing and implementing organic growth strategies, conceiving and executing acquisition strategies, and implementing complex change management programs. He also has significant experience in advising the owners of start-ups in the renewable energy and solar power sectors.
Professional Designations and Education
Graeme received a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
Articles and Publications
He co-authored “Winning The Merger Endgame” (McGraw-Hill, 2002) and “Stretch! How Great Companies Grow In Good Times And Bad” (John Wiley, 2003).
Carole Deniger has over 15 years' experience carrying out strategic analyses for major clients in the culture, communications, media and entertainment industries. She works closely with top executives of several majors firms, primarily identifying major strategic issues and developing growth-enhancing and value-creating business models.
She is the author of various studies such as An alyse de positionnement de l'industrie du jeu interactif au Québec,(analysis of the interactive games industry positioning in Quebec) Le marché de la communication au Québec : chiffres clés et enjeux (the communications market in Quebec: key figures and issues); The Emergence of the TV Portal and others.
Daniel Denis is an expert in economic and sectoral studies, as well as in strategic planning and analysis.
Mr. Denis’ 21 years in consulting have given him a solid experience in identifying strategic issues facing organizations and developing suitable strategies for them. His expertise ranges from competitive analysis and positioning strategies for public and private organizations to performance assessments of competitor or benchmark company strategies. A specialist in economic and industrial analysis as well as in regional development, Daniel Denis has developed significant expertise in the fields of finance, life sciences, IT sectors and energy. He is frequently called upon to provide expert analytical advice to various government bodies, associations and the media on economic or industrial issues.
Before joining SECOR, he worked for and important financial institution.
From 2000 to 2005 he worked for SECOR Europe in their Paris office, where he developed the strategic leadership practice. In the course of his duties he helped a large number of companies deal with transformational and leadership issues. Claude is an experienced facilitator, conference speaker and consultant. Keenly interested in the development potential of human dynamics, Claude has centred his professional practice on people, culture and strategy. He has developed a real knack for guiding executive teams through complex transformation issues.
Areas of expertise
Leadership
Change management
Organizational change
Professional Designations and Education
He has a master’s degree in education management and a graduate diploma in education.
Alain Dumas is an expert in business strategy and business plan development and follow-up. He is managing partner of SECOR's Quebec offices and is in charge of finance and administration for SECOR as well as being on its board of directors.
Alain Dumas has more than 15 years of experience in business accounting, auditing, consultation and administration. This experience has given him a solid background in various fields such as diagnostic analyses, business strategies, turnaround and business plans, scorecards, financial modeling and budgetary processes.
He regularly advises top corporate and institutional executives on major issues, business processes, and implementation of their action plans at both the organizational and financial level.
Before joining SECOR, Alain Dumas distinguished himself as audit manager at KPMG where he was involved in several mandates to turn companies around and handle their public share offerings while dealing with other major auditing mandates at the same time. He was also director and comptroller of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Areas of expertise
Diagnosis
Business strategy
Assisting top management
Business processes
Professional Designations and Education
MBA, University of Sherbrooke
Chartered Accountant (CA)
Member of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec
555, René-Lévesque blvd. West, 9th floor
Montreal (Quebec) H2Z 1B1
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David Griller is an expert in technology and innovation and has a passion for life sciences. His clients range from major pharmaceutical companies to small biotechnology firms involved in drug discovery and diagnostics. David works with them on broad strategic issues as well as operational challenges. He also works with the public sector providing advice on policy and technology trends.
David has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University College London and is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. David spent half his career as a research chemist at the National Research Council of Canada and the other half in business. He has worked in management, strategic planning, and consulting with Plastic Constructions Inc. Deloitte Haskins and Sells, and KPMG.
Areas of expertise
Strategic planning
Innovation strategy
Market analysis
Professional Designations and Education
Doctorate in organometallic chemistry from the University College London.
Paul Hiom is the Managing Partner of the Vancouver Office.
Paul brings over 15 years of consulting experience to SECOR, having previously founded RPO Management Consultants. He has significant experience working with a wide variety of clients, with extensive focus in government, insurance, health care, transportation and telecommunications.
Paul specializes in business and technology transformation including strategic outsourcing and enterprise technology acquisition. Paul focuses on opportunities to work with clients seeking to drive successful organization change through operations streamlining and enabling technologies. He brings extensive experience with program structuring and guidance for joint-disciplinary teams drawn from multiple organizations. In addition, he has led business case development and software acquisition for multiple clients.
Prior to his consulting career, Paul was a co-founder of the Centre for Operations Excellence at UBC, an applied research organization in the field of Operations Research. Paul also holds a graduate degree in Management Science and an undergraduate degree in Information Technology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. While pursuing his graduate degree, Paul conducted original research in the application of probabilistic models and simulation to achieve significant service and cost improvements for large inbound call centres.
Areas of Expertise
Business Transformation
Technology Strategy
Enterprise Technology Acquisition
Shared Services and Strategic Outsourcing
Professional Designations and Education
MScBA, Operations Research, University of British Columbia
Stephen has over fifteen years of management consulting experience, for much of which he has led large-scale strategy and business transformation projects. Stephen has a broad base of project experience with public and private sector clients with a focus on the health and financial sectors. He works closely with senior executives to develop clarity and new insight for business strategy through first principles thinking and robust, comprehensive analytics. He also brings proven expertise and experience in mobilizing organizations to follow through on strategy and achieve outstanding performance.
Prior to Secor, Stephen was a founding partner of RPO Management Consultants, a leading national consultancy; and a co-founder of the Centre for Operations Excellence (COE), a strategic partnership between the University of British Columbia and a number of leading North American businesses.
Areas of Expertise
Growth strategy
Business transformation
Strategic planning
Leadership and organizational development
Professional Designations and Education
MSc Finance, University of British Columbia
MA Economics, University of British Columbia
GD Business, McGill University
Founder of the Centre for Operations Excellence at University of British Columbia
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
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Kathy brings over ten years of consulting and industry experience. She is a senior strategy consultant specializing in business strategy, transformation, customer experience and new market entry strategy. Kathy has worked with clients across multiple sectors in developing growth strategies and capitalizing on new business opportunities. She has also worked closely with organizations in planning and implementing major transformational programs that have resulted in significant improvement in business results.
Kathy has extensive experience in program management, leadership and communications. She brings a collaborative approach in working with clients, demonstrated through her work in facilitating strategic sessions with Board of Directors, Senior Management, and Project Teams. In designing and implementing transformation, Kathy integrates people, process and technology methodologies, combining both strong quantitative analysis with qualitative facilitation techniques to achieve outstanding delivery and results.
Prior to joining SECOR, Kathy was the Strategy and Transformation Consulting Leader at Capgemini Consulting, formerly Ernst & Young Consulting. In addition to Strategy and Transformation, Kathy is known for her ground-breaking work on customer experience, where she assisted clients in designing new business models to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
Areas of expertise
Strategic planning, design and execution
Growth strategies for both core and new business launch
Customer strategy and customer experience design and implementation
Business strategy development including post-merger integration
Transformation, strategic restructuring and change management
Organization design, leadership alignment and culture
Performance improvement and cost reduction
Large and small group facilitation for visioning and strategy development
Program management of major transformational initiatives
Professional Designations and Education
BASc from University of Toronto
MBA from Ivey Business School
Project Management Professionals Designation
Professional Engineers of Ontario Designation
Articles and Publications
Co-author of the Canadian Wealth Management Market Report
Contributor to the World Wealth Report
Contributor to the World Retail Banking Report
Co-author of the Canadian Wireless Competitiveness Study
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
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Nancy Kaplan focuses on advising executives at domestic and global companies on issues related to business strategy. She has worked extensively in the areas of Post Merger Integration, innovation and commercialization, strategic and tactical marketing, customer-centricity, and enterprise-wide transformation. She has particular expertise in communications and media, including mobility, fixed line, and satellite.
Ms. Kaplan has led numerous engagements. As examples, she led the PMI work for the integration of the Enterprise businesses in the recent merger of two global telecommunications companies. She recently directed the strategy development and execution for the Small-Medium Business segment for a major telco. Changes to segmentation, product, channel and on-line strategies and capabilities were targeted to drive a minimum of $500M in revenue lift annually. Ms. Kapaln also led the go-to-market strategy and business model definition for a $1B integrated satellite-terrestrial start-up. The results helped to drive follow-on funding of $300M and save over $600M in capital expenditures.
Ms. Kaplan earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Areas of expertise
Strategy Development and Implementation
Portfolio rationalization and enterprise transformation
Growth and innovation
M&A and Post Merger Integration (PMI)
Professional Designations and Education
MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
BA from Yale University
Nancy is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events
Articles and Publications
Select Publications and Presentations
Live BBC-TV Analysis of SBC acquisition of AT&T (2005)
“VoIP and BPL – They’re Here! But are They Enough? (UTC Journal, 2005)
“Surviving and Thriving When Your Customers Contract” (Journal of Business Strategy, 2003)
“Realizing the Promise of Partnerships” (Journal of Business Strategy, 2002)
“Assimilate, Integrate, or Leave Alone” (Journal of Business Strategy, 2001)
Ms. Laurent is well known in the Quebec-City region, in the technology and corporate financing sectors. She was President and CEO of the Société Innovatech Québec from 1998 to 2008, after which she was appointed Director of Investment and Economic Development in the Office of the Mayor of Québec. At SECOR, she will primarily be advising technological firms in the Quebec-City region with respect to their development, financing and expansion plans and will assist SECOR’s professional staff in innovation and growth projects.
Address
2600 Laurier Blvd, Suite 955, 9th floor
Tour de la Cité - entrée 6
Québec (Québec) G1V 4W2
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Joshua Lawson is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Josh is a senior strategy and operations advisor with over 10 years of consulting and industry experience. He has worked in numerous industries with global and national clients in the retail, consumer and packaged goods, high tech and pharmaceutical industries. His expertise includes strategy development, organizational transformation, complex program management and performance management.
Josh’s primary focus for the past five years has been on health system strategy development and deployment. He has worked on client engagements involving the highest levels of system leadership (payer and provider) as well as at major care settings including primary care, large and small community hospitals, academic health science centers and emergency departments.
Josh has worked with clients to develop and deploy strategies to optimize the use of health human resources, design and implement eHealth solutions, manage and reduce wait times for critical services, develop long-term capital investment strategies and negotiate and implement complex, multi-party agreements.
Josh has significant experience working with clients in the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Areas of Expertise
Public sector strategy development
Health system strategy and organizational transformation
Human resources strategy development and deployment
Public policy development
Professional Designations and Education
MBA from the University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
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Jocelyn brings 20 years experience with business transformation. He guides and supports executive teams when they must transform their organizational model and their processes, where executive alignment and strategic change management are typically critical to the success of the transformation.
He has led transformation initiatives in support to different business strategies: adapting organization structure and governance to improve effectiveness, ensuring organizational and cultural integration following an acquisition, aligning foreign operations to support rapid expansion, reducing costs at support functions and implementing new technology enabled processes and organization.
Jocelyn's main industries of expertise are aerospace, energy and financial services.
Areas of expertise
Developing the business case and designing the organization of a corporate shared services for a large Canadian financial institution
Reshaping of the IT division and the IT governance mechanisms for a Canadian insurer
Guiding a new executive team in positioning a post merger integration, in the aerospace sector
Benchmarking of best practices of electricity distributors global leaders in operational excellence
Supporting the design and alignment of multiple customer serving departments in the implementation of an integrated Customer Care Center, in the aerospace industry
Advise executive team and managed the organization transformation stream of large ERP implementation projects, in the aerospace and in the electricity sectors
Managed leadership alignment on off shore strategy for a global aerospace manufacturer
Business Transformation - Organization design and corporate governance - Strategic change management - Business planning and organization performance management
- Project management
Professional Designations and Education
McGill University : « Executive Development Course » and « Advanced Management Course » , 2004-2005
Miles brings over fourteen years of management consulting experience to SECOR. Miles is a highly regarded consultant to the telecommunications and related industries, with extensive international experience, having advised senior executives in North America, Asia and Europe. His clients are leading wireless operators, fixed-line operators, handset manufacturers, wireless platform providers, multinational corporations and government.
Miles was previously a Vice President at CSMG ADVENTIS, a leading provider of strategy consulting services focused on the communications, media and entertainment industries. In addition, Miles was a Vice President in A.T. Kearney's Communications and High Technology Practice in U.S. and Asia, where he focused on serving leading companies in the wireless and related sectors.
Miles also served as a communications subject matter expert to finance, investment companies and start-ups. Miles has been quoted by major US newspapers and trade magazines such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times.
Areas of expertise
Growth Strategy
New Market Entry Strategy
Marketing and Customer Management
Corporate Turnaround
Professional Designations and Education
MBA from Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University.
Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Certified by American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)
Address
Continental Tower
1370 Avenue of the Americas, 14th floor
New York, NY 10019
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Pierre Lefebvre has over twenty years experience in consulting, transactions, and management, primarily in the fields of finance and infrastructures, in both the private and public sectors.
He was the first CEO of the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec, now called Infrastructure Québec. He set up and then managed this new provincial agency of over thirty employees. The agency was involved in more than $8B worth of projects in transportation, health and culture and received several national and international prizes.
Mr. Lefebvre was a leading figure in most of the province’s major infrastructure projects undertaken over the last few years and was a key player in creating Quebec’s recent policy framework on governance for major public infrastructure projects.
Mr. Lefebvre’s previous experience was primarily in project and corporate financing for Nortel Networks in Toronto, Paris and London and at Price WaterhouseCoopers in Toronto. He also practiced corporate law at Fasken Martineau in Montreal at the beginning of his career.
Professional Designations and Education
Pierre Lefebvre holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario), where he received the Richard Schmleek fellowship. He also received his law degree from the law faculty of the University of Montreal.
Ms. L’Heureux has been working as a consultant in strategic business alignment since 1994, both for the public and private sectors, in Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Since joining SECOR Consulting in 1997, she has been actively involved with many organizations wishing to plan and implement transformations in order to better answer their strategic issues: post-merger integration, customer experience re-invention (internal and external), organization design, and performance management.
Areas of expertise
High level implementation planning and organizational change process
Organizational evaluation, issue definition and strategic alignment
Performance improvement and monitoring; balanced scorecard development
Philippe started his career for a large financial institution for which he became Senior manager, Human resources development. He started his management consulting career with a large Canadian firm where he became Head of the Human Resources and Compensation practice. When it eventually merged with a leading international consulting firm, as partner in their Corporate Consulting group, Philippe directed reorganization and change initiatives in numerous large Canadian companies.
At SECOR, he helps North American and European companies in either growth & development, merger (post-merger integration) & acquisition (due diligence), and / or strategic repositioning situations.
Areas of expertise
Aligning Strategy, Governance and Leadership
Organisational Review, Development and Change
Top Management Team Assessment and development
HR Strategy
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Professional Designations and Education
Baccalauréat de l’enseignement du Second degré (Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, République française)
Baccalauréat ès Arts (B.A): Baccalauréat ès Sciences (B.Sc.): University of Montreal
Master in (Industrial / Organizational) Psychology (M.Ps.): University of Montreal
Master in Business Administration (M.B.A.): HEC Montreal.
Management doctorate studies (Ph.D., save dissertation): McGill University, with Professors Henry Mintzberg (Strategy), Patricia Pitcher and Jay Conger (Strategic Leadership)
Certified Industrial Psychologist
Certified Human resources management Professional
Articles and Publications
Corporate Governance and Strategic Management
Leadership stratégique et équipes de direction: un modèle diagnostic et prescriptif
Formation des Stratégies et équipes de direction
Executive Education: an Holistic and Strategic Perspective
L'apprentissage collectif et la formation de la stratégie
Contemporary motivational theories and Human Resources management practices
Managing Human Resources; the Issue of Cultural Fit
Une transformation impressionnante, mais une transformation réussie?
Les compétences pour une Gestion des Ressources humaines stratégique
Les intégrations post-fusion: s’agit-il des projets les plus complexes de transformation d’entreprise?
La mobilisation en entreprise; Valeurs et culture d'entreprise
The moral imperatives of organizational Leadership
Le développement du leadership stratégique; Les Universités d'entreprise
Diversification Posture and Top Management Team Characteristics
Doron Melnick is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Doron is a senior strategy and operations consultant with over ten years of experience advising clients in the private and public sectors, including government, healthcare, telecommunications and information technology. His expertise spans the areas of strategic planning, business transformation and performance management.
Doron’s consulting approach is highly collaborative. He makes the most of information and ideas inside a client’s organization, in combination with original research and analysis, to design tailored solutions which are widely supported by stakeholder groups. He also works closely with clients to ensure that planned solutions become reality, from policy and funding approvals through to implementation planning and execution.
Doron has conducted a number of studies on behalf of government on public policy issues such as public service modernization, climate change and healthcare funding.
Before joining SECOR, Doron worked with a global provider of customer experience solutions to the telecom industry, as well as companies in energy services and commercial property management.
Areas of Expertise
Business transformation strategy, business case development and implementation planning
Performance management for business units, project portfolios and service contracts
Organizational restructuring and process optimization
Shared services and outsourcing models
Public policy development
Professional Designations and Education
MBA, Rotman School of Management, Toronto
BASc Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, with a specialization in applied statistics
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
Bio
Jean-Yves Ménard is an expert in M&A, strategy, marketing and international sales.
He developed extensive skills working in consulting, ranging from diagnoses, action plans, strategic analyses, to merger and acquisition strategies. He has carried out numerous strategic repositioning, marketing and business-plan mandates. Mr. Menard has extensive experience in various fields: cutting-edge technologies, consumer products, distribution, food processing, and the aeronautics and tourist industries.
During his career, Jean-Yves Ménard has held senior positions such as vice-president of sales and development of international business for Systèmes Proxima, president and CEO of Polyquip, and vice-president of sales for AVS Technologies. He also held several senior management positions at Air Canada, the last being first vice-president of sales and operations for Air Canada Vacations.
Françoise POLI manages PERSONA’s team of consultant-coaches. She has extensive experience in human resources acquired in French and international corporations as DHR and DHR Group, within which she guided change and development projects (DUN & BRADSTREET - ICI (pharmaceutical chemistry) XEROX - SODIAAL
After an initial experience in the general management of a consulting firm, Françoise created her own company and then joined SECOR in 2007
Louis brings over fifteen years of strategy consulting experience and five years of industry experience to SECOR. He specializes primarily in financial services in which he works with senior management on issues related to corporate strategy. Louis focuses on assisting banks, insurance companies and other wealth management firms in identifying growth opportunities, improving operations, managing change and ultimately realizing the benefits of these initiatives.
Previously, Louis was an Associate Partner at IBM’s Global Business Solutions, in the financial services practice. Louis is known for his dedication to his clients’ success; this commitment has led to longstanding client relationships, primarily in financial services.
Professional Designations and Education
MBA and B.Arch McGill University
Executive Education Program, Harvard Business School
Chair of the Board of Governors of The Study of Montreal
Founder of Cresus Capital LP
Lecturer at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management
Christian Roy is an expert in innovation studies and strategies.
With over 10 years’ experience in consulting and management, he designs performance indicators and measuring tools that are based on a company’s industrial, strategic and innovation practices. These tools are used to develop relevant action plans to foster company growth or regional economic development. At the international level, Christian Roy has worked on exports, industrial clusters and collaboration between research institutes and industry.
Over the course of his career, he worked as strategic advisor to various companies and institutions. He was also in charge of the first Quebec regional support program for innovation in manufacturing, and carried out its implementation at the participating firms’ executive levels. He was also mandated by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (ACIP), the NRC-IRAP, Economic Development Canada (EDC) and the Ministère du Développement économique de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (MDEIE) to develop an approach using benchmarking as part of strategic planning for SME. He has always worked closely with CEGEPs and universities regarding research support and program management. At the international level, he has worked in exports and in European research exchange programs, specifically with the University of Strasbourg.
Areas of expertise
Innovation strategy
Market studies
Development plan
Professional Designations and Education
Master of Business Administration, Laval University
Master of Arts, Laval University
Yves Roy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SECOR.
Yves Roy was appointed CEO of SECOR Consulting in June 2007. He has twenty-five years of experience in the consulting field in deployments across the world, advising companies of all sizes. Posted previously in Canada (Montréal), the US (New York and Chicago), Europe (Paris) and Latin-America (Sao Paolo), he has helped manage, acquire and divest of companies in each of these regions. He has also led a mid-size Quebec-based company in manufacturing and distribution of building materials.
Client work includes:
Domestic and international acquisition/alliance strategies
IT Governance and strategy
Employee mobilization measurement and strategy
Areas of expertise
Corporate development
Business Planning
Technology Organization
Acquisition and Divestitures
Professional Designations and Education
Laval University, B.Sc Actuarial Science 1975
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.A. Risk and Insurance 1977
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Ph. D. Managerial Science and Applied Economics 1981
Fellow Society of Actuaries
Fellow Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Member of the Board of Directors of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
Ho Chi Minh City 74/7H Hai Ba Trung, District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
+84 8 7301 1323 info@secorgroup.com
Bio
After more than 20 years of experience in both functional and operational management posts in international contexts and at times of considerable change (Keolis, Framatome RT, Gaz de France), Françoise acquired the conviction that the orchestration of enterprises is successful under certain conditions. Thus, after having occupied positions on executive committees, fully conscious of the difficulty experienced by actors in converging, notably on the way to successfully define the means of attaining strategic objectives, decompartmentalising and cooperating, she decided to join the consultancy in supporting change within executive boards. Following an experience at Oliver Wyman where she supported reorganization projects at every level, she joined Secor in Paris as Managing Partner for activity.
Professional Designations and Education
Françoise is a graduate of CELSA and the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Information et de la Communication, and holds an Executive MBA from HEC.
Jean-Pierre Sablé is a partner of SECOR Consulting.
Jean-Pierre's business career spans over 20 years with a clear international footprint (Paris, Montreal and New York). While most of it as a consultant, he also spent several years with vice-president positions in Product Management, Marketing and Customer Services.
Jean-Pierre specializes in working with senior executives of global firms to address their key strategic issues. His unique mix of industry experience, global perspective and change management skills delivers measurable value to clients.
Jean-Pierre's experience is recognized in financial services as he has been a frequent advisor to major players in Europe and North America in the areas of Personal banking and Wealth Management. He also has a depth of experience in utilities, aerospace and information technology sectors. Jean-Pierre's key area of focus is growth strategy, organizational alignment and information technology strategy.
Areas of expertise
Client work includes:
Corporate Strategy in Personal Banking, Mutual Funds,
Private Banking, Asset Management
New segment/market entry and strategy in Personal Banking,
Private Banking and Asset Management
Customer experience strategy in financial services,
utilities, aerospace
Organizational design and executive alignment to support
transformations of large global companies in financial
services
Design and facilitation of Executive Committee
sessions
IT Strategy alignment with Business Strategy; IT
Governance
Design of Corporate Project Management Office (PMO)
Professional Designations and Education
M. Sc., Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, France
M. Sc., Economy and Finance, Political Sciences Institute, France
Articles and Publications
“Boards and Strategic IT Governance”, Perspectives, CEFRIO, 2007
“The Adaptative Enterprise”, French Chamber of Commerce in Canada, 2005
Ken Smith is one of Canada’s most experienced strategy consultants. He has practiced for 24 years, beginning with McKinsey & Company and now with SECOR Consulting, and his work on a range of important business and public policy issues is known and respected in government and in the business community. Throughout his consulting career, he has led the growth and development of new offices and practices. In particular, he was instrumental in developing SECOR from its Quebec base to Canada’s leading strategy consultancy and was ultimately elected Chair of the firm. He is now dedicated full time to client service.
Ken is a recognized expert in industry restructuring, mergers and partnerships. He has published several articles relating to the corporate governance and public policy issues associated with global industry restructuring and international mergers and acquisitions, including his most recent article “Losing (Ownership) Control” in the Harvard Business Review. Earlier, he established and published the first shareholder value based metric of merger success which is now broadly used in the industry, and introduced the application of real options to acquisitions in restructuring industries. His work has been referenced in several books and many of the leading business periodicals around the world.
His client work is focused on the business and public policy issues related to corporate strategy and industry restructuring. Most recently, he has written on the systemic risk issues behind the US financial industry crisis and advised US financial institutions and regulators. In Canada, his work on global industry restructuring helped draw attention to the issues that led to the 2008 federal review of Canadian competitiveness policy. His work on financial services competitiveness, global bancassurance, global nuclear industry restructuring and on the medical isotope crisis is also well known in each of the respective industries and government.
Ken is also active on a volunteer basis in the business and not-for-profit communities. He is the Chair of the Ontario Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors, one of the largest and most active associations for directors in North America. He is on the Board of the Arthritis Society and is a member of the Steering Committee for Financial Literacy. He is also active in US Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the (US) National Association of Corporate Directors, The Toronto Club, the Economic Club of New York and the University Club of Toronto.
Areas of expertise
Public policy on industry restructuring in financial services
New business model development in financial services, energy, retailing, publishing
Portfolio valuation, restructuring and divestitures for large holding companies
Domestic and international acquisition/alliance strategies in airlines, railroads, couriers, brewing
Post merger integration for major transactions in technology, telecommunications, transportation
Operations restructuring and integration in transportation, manufacturing, printing
Professional Designations and Education
Ken holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from York University, and an M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He is also an accredited director with an ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
Bio
After many years in consultancy focused on the economic issues of states/regions and the problems of industrial restructuring, Isabelle turned towards company consultancy. This dual approach, macro then micro economic allowed her to support leadership teams and colleagues in enterprises in developing perspectives relating to both the internal and external challenges of the enterprise.
For 10 years now she has supported the reorganization of such enterprises as France Telecom/Orange, EDF, Roche Pharma and Nouvelles Frontières at some key moments in their history: regulation, change of brand and so on.
Isabelle acquired the conviction that the success of a strategy depends on the ability of a leadership team to share its vision and build with the managers an internal context favourable to its implementation and the mobilization of its teams.
Isabelle is a graduate of ESSEC and joined SECOR at the end of 2008 after 10 years at the office of Izsak Grapin et Associés.
Ms. Stock joined SECOR in 1997, as a strategy consultant. Today she is a specialist with SECOR’s client strategy practice, having developed a unique expertise in helping her clients develop a culture of partnerships as a business enhancement tool. A highly motivated and skilful team player, Oona Stock has developed a solid relationship with her clients who count on her support in long-term projects driving major change.
In 2005, in 2005, she created an event design practice called SECOR Events which she continues to run and developed the firm's Communications and Marketing Department, which she has been directing for the last seven years.
Oona has a master’s in management (human resources) and a bachelor’s in administration (industrial relations). Ms. Stock is a member of the Board of Directors of Ville-Marie Social Services.
Areas of expertise
Business strategy
Marketing
Client strategy
Professional Designations and Education
Master of Science in management with a major in human resources
Bachelor of Administration with a major in industrial relations, University of Montreal
David Waldron is a Partner in our Montreal office. He specializes in strategy and risk management for natural resource and complex industrial businesses.
David has spent 18 years helping executive teams form and implement strategies. He started his career advising governments in Alberta on regional economic development. The wide exposure to public sector industrial development issues helped David create a unique and comprehensive strategy practice for multifaceted enterprises. His mandates focus on creating value for businesses by helping them design an appropriate strategy, and ensuring the executive team can and will implement the strategy and then properly manage any corollary risks.
David has consulted for many Canadian based multinational companies in mining, metals and forestry. Beyond commodities, David also works with global sporting goods manufacturing operations, major rail transport equipment manufacturers and aerospace companies in North America and Europe. Since making management risk part of SECOR’s strategy services, David has also had the opportunity to work with leading insurance and re-insurance companies in Canada and abroad.
Though currently based in North America, David was based in our European headquarters in Paris from 2003 to 2004.
Areas of expertise
Corporate strategy development and implementation
Business unit strategy development, including expansion and spin-off situations
Crisis management due to changing business environments
Pre merger and growth activities including market assessments, target identification and due diligence
Executive team structure and team assessments
Professional Designations and Education
Master of Arts Economics, University of Alberta 1990
Specialization in corporate and public sector finance
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston
Specialization in natural resources and energy economics
Contact
David Waldron
Position
Partner, Knowledge Management & Client Development
Lisa is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office.
Lisa is a senior strategy consultant with over eight years of consulting experience in strategic planning & analysis, growth option development & evaluation, analytical problem solving and large-scale project management. She has advised major Canadian corporations across multiple sectors, including media & telecommunications, financial services, retail, and the public sector. Lisa is also a recognized researcher in the area of merger & acquisition effectiveness.
Before joining SECOR, Lisa's experience included corporate strategy development and implementation for the global consulting firms of CapGemini and Ernst & Young, as well as work with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care in Ontario.
Areas of expertise
Corporate strategy development and evaluation of growth options
Business strategy development, including marketing and pricing strategies
Post-merger integration process design and implementation
Public policy development and implementation
Professional Designations and Education
MBA from the Ivey School of Business
Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
Bio
Marc brings 9 years of strategy consulting and 25 years of industry experience to SECOR. He is a senior strategy consultant focusing on industry analysis and restructuring strategy and the development of business models for emerging opportunities. Marc specializes in the creation of public/private multi-stakeholder business models and the negotiation of the associated contract relationships involving domestic and/or international stakeholders. Marc’s expertise spans across several industry sectors including aerospace, utilities, health care, gaming and telecommunications. Marc has worked directly with both federal and provincial ministries, crown corporations and regulators, as well as with the private sector, municipalities, and non-profit organizations.
Prior to joining SECOR in January 2008, Marc was the principal consultant for Strategic Gaming Innovations and a manager within the strategy and transformation practice at CapGemini. While in these roles, he led the development of strategy and business innovation implementation in the charitable gaming sector for clients in Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and Nova Scotia.
Prior to his career in strategy consulting, Marc helped develop and negotiate the international agreements defining Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station Program.
Areas of expertise
Industry analysis and restructuring strategy
Development of competitive positioning, economic, and business models for emerging opportunities
Assessment of public policy implications regarding market place innovations
Creation of new multi-stakeholder business relationship models involving both the public and private sectors
Negotiation of contract relationships to implement new multi-stakeholder public/private business models
Professional Designations and Education
Marc holds a BASc from University of Waterloo and an honours MBA from the Schulich School of Business.
Address
390 Bay Street
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y2
Bio
Christine Cherrière has more than 20 years of professional experience in human resources development, particularly with large corporations: SANOFI, an ELF subsidiary – SITA, a SUEZ subsidiary.
She has facilitated sessions on career management policy and high talent assessment with human resource executives of holding companies, and manages the recruitment and training services support function.
Areas of expertise
Christine Cherrière is an expert in evaluation and has managed the in-house operations of the assessment and evaluation centres for managers and senior executives.
Professional Designations and Education
Trained at the Ecole des Psychologues praticiens, Christine is certified in MBTI and OPQ, and also trained in Coaching at the Institut de Formation au Développement (IFOD). She is a member of the Société Française de Coaching. She masters Assessment Centres and 360° evaluations.
Philippe Frizon is an Associate Principal in SECOR’s Montreal Office.
With SECOR since 1999, Philippe advises executives on strategy, to support their growth projects and their strategic planning. He has also conducted a number of projects implementing new strategic directions and driving major change.
Over the years, Philippe has acquired extensive experience in the financial services and media and telecommunications fields, both in Europe and in Canada. He has also guided many clients in the manufacturing, transportation and real estate sectors.
Over the past few years, he has been in charge of developing SECOR’s strategy practice, and from 2004 to 2007, he contributed to the growth of SECOR’s operations in Paris.
Before joining SECOR, Philippe worked for SNC-Lavalin in Montréal on developing projects in Canada and internationally, for an agrochemical company in West Africa, as well as for Danone in Paris.
Areas of expertise
Strategic planning
Growth strategies
Major change projects - lead
Professional Designations and Education
MBA, HEC Montréal
B.Sc. Engineering (INA-PG / Paris Tech)
With more than ten years experience as a consultant, Mélanie Kfoury is an expert in strategy and business planning, market analysis, and sectoral and economic studies.
Her analyses of complex issues enable management teams to agree on a policy direction that yields action strategies. She also carries out strategic industrial and sectoral analyses and assists top management of high-technology companies in deciding upon directions to take.
Before joining SECOR, Mélanie Kfoury worked for two years as an analyst at Accenture.
Master of Science in Economics and Marketing, HEC Montréal
Diploma in international business management (ERASMUS) from IECS, a European School of Management in Strasbourg
Bachelor of Business Administration, HEC Montréal.
Trilingual, James BAER has 25 years experience in management, strategy and consulting.
Renaud Beauchesne has over 25 years of experience in consulting, management and executive positions. 
A professional in human resources management, Richard Blain has extensive experience in operations management and finance as well. In his more than 20 years of business, he developed and implemented human resource strategies that increased the efficiency of the firms that he worked for. Mr. Blain has worked in various industries, in particular in the retail trade, the mining sector and public transport. He is known for his ability to identify challenges that companies need to face and for implementing management practices designed to increase organizational efficiency and profitability within a growing and changing environment. 
Marc brings 9 years of strategy consulting and 25 years of industry experience to SECOR. He is a senior strategy consultant focusing on industry analysis and restructuring strategy and the development of business models for emerging opportunities. Marc specializes in the creation of public/private multi-stakeholder business models and the negotiation of the associated contract relationships involving domestic and/or international stakeholders. Marc’s expertise spans across several industry sectors including aerospace, utilities, health care, gaming and telecommunications. Marc has worked directly with both federal and provincial ministries, crown corporations and regulators, as well as with the private sector, municipalities, and non-profit organizations.
James brings 20 years of consulting experience to SECOR, having held senior roles with several leading global strategy consulting firms. James has advised clients through pre-deal strategy issues, and post-merger integration management. His clients are Canadian and global leaders of capital intensive sectors such as the resources, telecommunications and transportation industries, as well as service sectors such as information services and consumer products.
Alastair Caddick is an Associate Partner at SECOR Consulting based in Vancouver.
Mario-Jacques has a rich and varied career path: sales supervisor for the Hudson’s Bay Company, educator and then director of the Fashion Marketing program for LaSalle College in Montreal (Canada), he then took over management of the educational services and the Fashion Marketing program in Singapore and became General Manager in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He has been living in France since 1995, where he has worked as an independent consultant, coach and trainer before joining the consulting firm of Ariade. He is French Canadian and is bilingual (English French).
Marcel Côté is a senior partner and a co-founder of Secor. 
With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Graeme specializes in the industrial products and manufacturing, automotive and financial services industries. He has deep experience in developing and implementing organic growth strategies, conceiving and executing acquisition strategies, and implementing complex change management programs. He also has significant experience in advising the owners of start-ups in the renewable energy and solar power sectors.
Daniel Denis is an expert in economic and sectoral studies, as well as in strategic planning and analysis. 
Alain Dumas is an expert in business strategy and business plan development and follow-up. He is managing partner of SECOR's Quebec offices and is in charge of finance and administration for SECOR as well as being on its board of directors. 
Philippe Frizon is an Associate Principal in SECOR’s Montreal Office.
David Griller is an expert in technology and innovation and has a passion for life sciences. His clients range from major pharmaceutical companies to small biotechnology firms involved in drug discovery and diagnostics. David works with them on broad strategic issues as well as operational challenges. He also works with the public sector providing advice on policy and technology trends. 
Paul Hiom is the Managing Partner of the Vancouver Office. 
Kathy brings over ten years of consulting and industry experience. She is a senior strategy consultant specializing in business strategy, transformation, customer experience and new market entry strategy. Kathy has worked with clients across multiple sectors in developing growth strategies and capitalizing on new business opportunities. She has also worked closely with organizations in planning and implementing major transformational programs that have resulted in significant improvement in business results. 
Nancy Kaplan focuses on advising executives at domestic and global companies on issues related to business strategy. She has worked extensively in the areas of Post Merger Integration, innovation and commercialization, strategic and tactical marketing, customer-centricity, and enterprise-wide transformation. She has particular expertise in communications and media, including mobility, fixed line, and satellite.
With more than ten years experience as a consultant, Mélanie Kfoury is an expert in strategy and business planning, market analysis, and sectoral and economic studies. 
Ms. L’Heureux has been working as a consultant in strategic business alignment since 1994, both for the public and private sectors, in Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Ms. Laurent is well known in the Quebec-City region, in the technology and corporate financing sectors. She was President and CEO of the Société Innovatech Québec from 1998 to 2008, after which she was appointed Director of Investment and Economic Development in the Office of the Mayor of Québec. At SECOR, she will primarily be advising technological firms in the Quebec-City region with respect to their development, financing and expansion plans and will assist SECOR’s professional staff in innovation and growth projects.
Joshua Lawson is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office. 
Jocelyn brings 20 years experience with business transformation. He guides and supports executive teams when they must transform their organizational model and their processes, where executive alignment and strategic change management are typically critical to the success of the transformation. 
Miles brings over fourteen years of management consulting experience to SECOR. Miles is a highly regarded consultant to the telecommunications and related industries, with extensive international experience, having advised senior executives in North America, Asia and Europe. His clients are leading wireless operators, fixed-line operators, handset manufacturers, wireless platform providers, multinational corporations and government.
Pierre Lefebvre has over twenty years experience in consulting, transactions, and management, primarily in the fields of finance and infrastructures, in both the private and public sectors.
Doron Melnick is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office. 
Jean-Yves Ménard is an expert in M&A, strategy, marketing and international sales. 
Louis brings over fifteen years of strategy consulting experience and five years of industry experience to SECOR. He specializes primarily in financial services in which he works with senior management on issues related to corporate strategy. Louis focuses on assisting banks, insurance companies and other wealth management firms in identifying growth opportunities, improving operations, managing change and ultimately realizing the benefits of these initiatives.
Christian Roy is an expert in innovation studies and strategies. 
Yves Roy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SECOR. 
Jean-Pierre Sablé is a partner of SECOR Consulting.
Ken Smith is one of Canada’s most experienced strategy consultants. He has practiced for 24 years, beginning with McKinsey & Company and now with SECOR Consulting, and his work on a range of important business and public policy issues is known and respected in government and in the business community. Throughout his consulting career, he has led the growth and development of new offices and practices. In particular, he was instrumental in developing SECOR from its Quebec base to Canada’s leading strategy consultancy and was ultimately elected Chair of the firm. He is now dedicated full time to client service.
Ms. Stock joined SECOR in 1997, as a strategy consultant. Today she is a specialist with SECOR’s client strategy practice, having developed a unique expertise in helping her clients develop a culture of partnerships as a business enhancement tool. A highly motivated and skilful team player, Oona Stock has developed a solid relationship with her clients who count on her support in long-term projects driving major change. 
Lisa is an Associate Principal for SECOR in the Toronto Office. 
