Jean Dumont has worked in the financial management field for most of his professional career. A brief early-career interlude in the consulting and manufacturing fields confirmed his entrepreneurial affinity. As an initial partner at Les Placements T.A.L. in 1984, this investment firm that handles institutional and private-fortune portfolios became Canada’s biggest fund manager, with $55 billion in assets. In 1985, he founded investment fund subsidiary Talvest Funds Management, whose assets under management rose from $40 million to $2.5 billion in 10 years. In 1998, following a two-year retirement, in partnership with the Caisse de dépôt ET placement du Québec, Mr. Dumont founded a venture capital company with $150 million invested. The company undertook a series of acquisitions in the financial products distribution sector in Canada and formed Groupe Financier Partenaires Cartier, which, with 3,500 brokers managing $16 billion in investment fund assets, became the largest distributor in Canada. In December 2003, this public company was sold to Dundee Wealth Management. Since then, alongside his activities as a corporate director, Mr. Dumont has served on the finance and investment committees of numerous charitable organizations.

Mr. Gobeil has held management positions in various companies in the food sector as well as within the Government of Quebec where he was inter alia Minister for Administration, Chair of the Treasury Board and Minister of International Affairs. He holds a Master of Commerce degree and a Master’s degree in Accounting from Université de Sherbrooke and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has chaired and co-chaired numerous Board of Directors for organizations in the financial services, energy, pulp & paper, retail food industries as well as for public organizations and academic. He still currently sits on numerous Boards of Directors and also works for several charitable and cultural organizations.

Ken Pustai has worked in the Human Resources field for most of his career with experience in the manufacturing and financial services sectors. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, he joined Ford Motor Company of Canada where over a 14 year period he held senior labour relations positions and was a key member of the master negotiating committee. Ken transitioned to the financial services sector in 1990, joining London Insurance Group where he served as leader of the HR function and also led the Group Insurance Sales and Service network. In 1998, he joined Canada Trust as leader of the HR function and transitioned to TD Bank Group in 2000 with their acquisition of CT. Ken progressed to the HR leadership role within TD and retired in early 2008. He continues to work for TD on a contractual basis and is involved in the community through volunteer leadership roles with the United Way and the Halton Multicultural Centre.  

Guthrie has held management positions for companies such as Osler, BCE where he was a member of the initial founding executive team of Bell Mobility and at the Teleglobe Group where he became President and C.E.O. of Teleglobe Canada. He then became a partner at EdgeStone Capital. He attended Queen’s University (Hons Science) in Kingston and graduated in Law (LL.B.) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He went on to obtain an M.B.A. from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and has completed the I.C.D. certification program for corporate directors. He is furthermore an Adjunct Professor at the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management, lecturing on business and organizational issues related to acquisitions, family or entrepreneurial ventures, and corporate governance. From his experience with numerous high-growth business ventures and acquisitions, he has also had extensive board experience as Chair or member of numerous private and public company boards of directors.