Pierre Shoiry, born in 1957, President and Chief Executive Officer, trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust, GP Director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, has 25 years of experience in the engineering services industry. He began his career in 1980 with a major engineering services firm in Quebec. Employed by GENIVAR or its predecessor company since 1989, he was previously Senior Associate Engineer in Municipal Infrastructures and Vice-President of Business Development. He has been President of GENIVAR or its predecessor company since 1995. Mr. Shoiry has been a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Quebec since 1980. From 2002 to 2003, he was Chairman of the ACEC and actively participated in promoting the engineering services industry in Canada and abroad. He was also President of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Quebec from 1998 to 1999. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in applied science with a major in civil engineering, as well as a Master’s degree in applied science, from Laval University.
Ali Ettehadieh, born in 1951, trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust, GP Director and Vice-President, Project services and international, has more than 30 years of experience in project management, cost control and budgets, and value engineering, in Canada and internationally. In 1986, he founded Gespro SST inc., a project management company that became a part of the predecessor company of GENIVAR in 1998. Mr. Ettehadieh is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Quebec, the Ontario Order of Engineers and the American Society of Value Engineering. He is a civil engineering graduate of the École polytechnique de Montreal (1974) and holds a Master’s degree in applied science from McGill University (1978).
Daniel Fournier, born in 1954, trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust, GP Director and lead director and trustee of the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, has more than 20 years of experience in business administration. Since 1998, Mr. Fournier has served as President of ACNG Capital Inc., a real estate advisory company. From 1986 to 1997, Mr. Fournier was Chairman and majority shareholder of Ogilvy, a Montreal retail company. Mr. Fournier is also currently Vice-Chairman and director of CB Richard Ellis Canada. He serves on the board of directors of Canadian Tire Corporation and the Canadian Tire Bank. Mr. Fournier was a trustee of Summit Reit as well as a member of the independent special committee until the sale of Summit for $3.2 billion to ING Canada in January, 2007. He has also served on the board of Standard Life of Canada, and Standard Life Trust. Mr. Fournier is also the founding Chairman of NF (Neurofibromatosis) Canada. He is the past Chairman of McCord Museum of Canadian History and past Vice-Chairman of the Fondation Jean Lapointe as well as a past member of both the YWCA and YMCA Foundations. He holds a Bachelor of History degree from Princeton University (1977) and a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University (1980).
Pierre Seccareccia, born in 1946, trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust and GP Director, has more than 35 years of experience in financial consulting and management. A Partner of the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm from 1976 to 1998, he acted as Managing Partner for its Montreal south shore office from 1987 to 1989, for its Montreal central office from 1992 to 1996, and for its offices in the Province of Quebec from 1996 to 1998. Following the merger in 1998 of Coopers & Lybrand with Price Waterhouse, he acted as Managing Partner for the Montreal office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1998 to 2001. Since 2003, he is a full-time director for various public and private entities. Mr. Seccareccia is currently a director of Boralex Inc., of Groupe Laperrière & Verreault Inc. and of Medicago Inc. Mr. Seccareccia is a Fellow of the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants and of the Quebec Order of Chartered Directors, and a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (Canada) and of the National Association of Corporate Directors (U.S.A.). He is a graduate from École des Hautes études commerciales (1969).
Pierre Simard, born in 1964, nominee trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust and GP Director, has more than 15 years of experience in the financial and banking industry. Mr. Simard is Managing Member of Champlain Financial Corporation (Canada) and Managing Director of Champlain Capital Management LLC, a merchant banking firm, which he co-founded in 2001. Prior to 2001, Mr. Simard worked as an investment banker with Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. where he arranged mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financing. He also worked for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and for Lancaster Financial Corp., a private investment banking firm in Toronto. Mr. Simard is currently a director of Groupe Bocenor Inc. Mr. Simard holds a Bachelor degree from Laval University in Chemical Engineering, has a graduate degree in Management from l’Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and holds an M.B.A. from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Richard Bélanger, born in 1957, nominee trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust and GP Director, has more than 25 years of experience in business development, financing and business management. Since 1993, he has served as President of Toryvel Group Inc., an investment firm of which he is the co-owner. Mr. Bélanger also acts as President of Stetson Timberlands, Inc., since 1988, and as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the audit committee of Theseus Capital Inc., since 2005. He also serves as Chairman of the audit committee and director on the board of Banque Laurentienne du Canada and he sits on the board of directors and the audit committee of Stella-Jones Inc. Mr. Bélanger is a Fellow of the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants and he is a graduate from Laval University.
Lawrence Smith, born in 1953, nominee trustee of the Fund, trustee of the Trust and GP Director, has more than 25 years of experience as a lawyer practicing in the energy industry. Mr. Smith is a former policy advisor to a Minister of the Government of Canada. Mr. Smith has served as Vice-Chairman of Bennett Jones LLP, a national law firm based in Calgary, Alberta, is former counsel to the National Energy Board as well as a former policy advisor to a Minister of the Government of Ontario. Mr. Smith is a member of the Advisory Board to the Montreal Neurological Institute and the U.S. Federal Energy Bar Association. He also serves as director on the board of various public and private entities such as Alberta Northeast Gas Limited, DE Marketing Canada Ltd., Duke Energy Services Canada Ltd., DTMSI Management Ltd., WBI Canadian Pipeline, Ltd. and International Frontier Resources Corporation, among others. Mr. Smith holds Bachelor degrees from St. Patrick's College and University of Ottawa (LLB) and a Master degree from Oxford University (UK). He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2000.