Main responsibilities
- Sets up and evaluates the governance program
- Forms the committees needed to help fulfill its responsibilities
- Ensures that the Company operates in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
- Verifies the effectiveness of control mechanisms and the reliability of reports and financial results
Members
Chair
René Bégin, FCPA, FCA, ASC
Lévis, Quebec
Tax Consultant, Lemieux Nolet, Chartered Professional Accountants LLP
Director, Caisse Desjardins de Lévis
Vice-Chair
Serge Rousseau, Company Managing Director
Thetford-Mines, Québec
Director, Caisse Desjardins du Carrefour des lacs
Director, Desjardins Trust
Board Members
Doryne Bourque
Montreal, Quebec
Director,
Caisse Desjardins des Technologies de l’information
Member of the Board of Directors, Fondation Dr Julien
Member of Anges Québec
Jean-François Blais, FICA, FCAS
Verdun, Quebec
Member of the Board of Directors and Member of the Audit, Investment and Risks Committee,
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Member of the Board of Directors and President of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, Loto-Québec
Member of the Board of Directors and Member of the Audit Committee, Optimum
Réassurance
Claudia Champagne, PhD
Sherbrooke, Quebec
Professor of Finance, Business School,
Université de Sherbrooke
Director,
Caisse Desjardins des Deux-Rivières de Sherbrooke
Èva Maglis, MBA, ASC
Montreal, Quebec
ASC, FXinnovation, Intelcom and Avison Young
Director,
Fondation des jeunes de la DPJ
Patrick Ouellet, Lawyer
Quebec, Quebec
Member of the
Conseil de discipline du Barreau du Québec
Owner-Pharmacist, Pharmacy Patrick Ouellet
Member of the
Conseil de la Faculté de pharmacie de l’Université de Laval
Director,
Caisse Desjardins de Beauport
Hélène Pouliot, FICA, FSA, CERA
Brampton, Ontario
Independent Advisor, Life and Health Insurance
President, Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Christine Sayegh Filgiano, CFA, ASC, C.Dir.
Westmount, Quebec
Member of the Board of Directors and Audit and Finance Committee, Avenue 31 Capital Inc.
Member of the Management Committee,
Fonds de dotation de l’Université de Montréal
Director, Triovest
Michel Séguin, CHRP, PhD
Outremont, Quebec
Professor,
École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal
Director,
Caisse Desjardins du Centre-Est de Montréal
President, Services Praxie inc.
Robert St-Aubin, FCPA
Repentigny, Quebec
Managing Partner, Demers Beaulne LLP
Karine Toupin, MBA, ASC
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec
Lawyer-Entrepreneur, Delagatus
Director and Member of the Governance Committee,
Caisse Desjardins de Cap-Rouge-Saint-Augustin