The Small business Advancement Financial institution of Canada (BDC) is the nation’s foremost bank for Canadian business owners. It gives accessibility to financing, as effectively as advisory products and services, to assistance Canadian corporations develop and do well.
Now, The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Global Trade, Export Advertising, Tiny Enterprise and Financial Progress and Minister accountable for the BDC, introduced the appointment of Marie-Soleil Lacoursiere and Stéphane Therrien, and the reappointment of Suzanne Trottier, to the BDC’s Board of Directors, effective June 22, 2023.
“These candidates have a prosperity of business enterprise working experience from which BDC will profit,” mentioned Minister Ng. “Their practical experience will be invaluable to BDC as it continues to enjoy a important job in providing significant advisory and money supports to Canadian business owners. These supports posture modest enterprise owners to obtain sustainable and inclusive long-expression development, assist with the changeover to net zero, and adopt electronic technologies to compete now and into the upcoming.”
Ms. Lacoursiere is a northerner and an achieved businesswoman with a prosperous job in the private sector, predominantly in the mining, IT and energy sectors. She is a 3rd-era entrepreneur with about 15 several years of management knowledge, 10 of which have been in Canada’s north. She is currently a lover in Morin’s Fisheries, an revolutionary business fishery situated on Terrific Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Ms. Lacoursiere also has major working experience serving on boards of administrators for the Northwest Territories Business enterprise Advancement and Expense Company, the NWT & Nunavut Chamber of Mines, Dene Fur Clouds, and Fort McPherson Tent and Canvas, among others.
Mr. Therrien is a seasoned executive with over two a long time of expertise at senior levels. Most just lately, he acted as interim CEO though in the position of Executive Vice President, Particular & Commercial Banking, at Laurentian Financial institution of Canada following serving in other senior management positions commencing in 2012. Beforehand, a 20-year job at GE Capital noticed Mr. Therrien increase to turn out to be Chief Industrial Officer reporting to the CEO.
Ms. Trottier, a BDC board member considering that 2019, has substantial senior administration practical experience. She is currently the President of 1st Nations Financial institution of Canada Believe in. Previously, she held a selection of positions at Ernst & Youthful, most just lately as Vice-President in its Corporate Finance team, and subsequently, she was the Director of Ability Progress and Intervention at the Initially Nations Financial Management Board.
These appointments are the final result of an open, clear and merit-primarily based selection procedure. These 3 appointees will help mature and increase the results of the BDC even even further with their expertise.