Board of Directors

Independent Member

Chair of the Board of Directors since January 20, 2025

• Montréal
• Public service
• Appointed on January 20, 2025
• Five-year term
• Administratrice de sociétés certifiée (ASC)

Dominique Savoie holds a master’s degree in psychology from the Université de Montréal and has 38 years’ experience in the Québec public service. She has held a variety of key positions, including Deputy Minister at the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, the Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles, the Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable and the Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale.

On July 10, 2023, she took office as the Secretary General and Clerk of the Conseil exécutif. Administratrice de sociétés certifiée, Ms. Savoie has been an independent member of the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) Board of Directors since July 16, 2025.

• Montréal
• Public service
• Appointed on January 14, 2026

Serge Lamontagne holds a master’s degree in business administration and is a certified corporate director (Administrateur de sociétés certifiée). He has more than 35 years of experience in public service, with strategic reorganization in particular. He was director general of the City of Laval from 2014 to 2018 and of the City of Montréal from 2018 to 2024. Before joining the SAAQ, he was a resident expert at the École nationale d’administration publique.

Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Member of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

• Capitale-Nationale
• Law
• Appointed on December 1, 2022
• Four-year term
• Named Avocatus Emeritus by the Barreau du Québec
• Attorney and corporate director

Michel Bouchard holds a law degree from Université Laval and has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 1973. He has held the title of Avocatus Emeritus since 2007. From 1978 to 1988, he was a Québec crown prosecutor and Chief Crown Prosecutor in criminal and penal matters. From 1988 to 1993, he was Associate Deputy Minister of Justice in Québec and then Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Québec until 2003. He was Associate Deputy Minister of Justice Canada until 2007. In 2007 he once again became Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Québec, a position he held until 2010. From 2011 to 2017 he was President of the board of directors of Éducaloi. He has also been a member of the board of directors of Revenu Québec, as well as a member of the Federal Judicial Advisory Committee.

Chair of the Information Technology and Cybersecurity Committee

Chair of the Integrated Risk Management Committee

Member of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on September 3, 2024
• Four-year term
• President and Founder of Perspectives Pragma

Nancy Chahwan holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a specialization in finance and management from the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal (HEC) and is a graduate of the Institut des administrateurs de sociétés. After nearly 15 years in management for the Canadian public service in Ottawa and the Province of Québec, she worked as deputy minister for close to 5 years at the Canada Revenue Agency, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Department of National Defence. Currently the President and Founder of Perspectives Pragma, Ms. Chahwan works as an executive advisor for managers in the public and private sectors around the world. She is also an instructor at Executive Education HEC Montréal and a management coach for master’s students at HEC Montréal. With more than 15 years of experience as a corporate director, Ms. Chahwan is currently a board member of the Chambre de l’assurance du Québec.

Chair of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Member of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

Member of the Integrated Risk Management Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on February 26, 2014
• Reappointed on June 6, 2018
• Reappointed on November 23, 2022
• Four-year term
• Economist, MBA
• Co-director, Barry F. Lorenzetti Centre for Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership (Concordia University)
• Administratrice de sociétés certifiée (ASC)

Louise Champoux-Paillé is an economist and holds a master’s degree with distinction in management and a master’s degree in museology. She has worked in the financial and professional services sector for 30 years, holding various strategic positions, including Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Bureau des services financiers du Québec, a provincial regulatory agency that governs the distribution of insurance products, mutual funds and financial planning services. She is currently co-director of the Barry F. Lorenzetti Centre for Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Concordia University and teachesgovernance and ESG management at Executive Education HEC Montréal. She was appointed Knight of the Ordre national du Québec in 2012 and received the Order of Canada in 2016. In 2023, she was named Administratrice de sociétés certifiée (certified corporate director) emeritus by the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés. She is also President and member of the CHU Sainte-Justine Board of Directors, and a board member of the Chambre des notaires du Québec and Canada Post. She also sits on the committee of inquiry in ethics and professional conduct of the Ordre des architectes du Québec.

Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Member of the Information Technology and Cybersecurity Committee

Member of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on June 6, 2018
• Reappointed on November 23, 2022
• Four-year term
• Engineer, member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec

Corinne Charette holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Concordia University. She has several years of experience in both the private sector and the Canadian public service. She has notably served as the Chief Information Officer of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, and as the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of the Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications Sector at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. She has also held management positions at Transat, CANAFE, CIBC and KPMG.  In 2012, Concordia University honoured her with the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. Ms. Charette is an external member of the Elections Canada Audit Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Greater Montréal. She is also a member of the Foundation’s  audit committee.

Chair of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

Member of the Integrated Risk Management Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on January 21, 2026
• Four-year term

Julie Chaurette holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from HEC Montréal. She is a fellow of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec and is a certified risk manager with the Global Risk Management Institute. She is currently an administrator with the Société québécoise des infrastructures and the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal. She is also a member of the disciplinary council of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec and works as an administrator for multiple companies, including Mission Unitaînés and Cegerco.

Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Member of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on February 18, 2026
• Three-year term
• Executive-level professional in communications, marketing and sustainable development

Debby Cordeiro holds a Bachelor of Arts and a master’s degree in French language and literature from McGill University. She is currently an executive-level professional in communications, marketing and sustainable development.

 Debby Cordeiro was the vice-president of communications, public affairs, marketing and ESG factors for the National Bank of Canada, and the vice-president of communications and public affairs for La Caisse (Ivanhoé Cambridge). She currently sits on the board of governors at McGill University and École Sacré-Cœur de Montréal.

Chair of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

Member of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

Member of the Integrated Risk Management Committee

• Montréal
• Business
• Appointed on March 20, 2019
• Reappointed on June 7, 2023
• Four-year term

Christian Cyr holds an MBA from Concordia University and a degree in actuarial science from Université Laval. He has held senior executive and strategic advisor positions in various financial institutions and insurance companies. His responsibilities have led him to lead and support teams of professionals specialized in strategic planning, marketing, solution and product development, customer service, actuarial sciences and project management. He was a member of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the American Society of Actuaries. He currently sits on the board of directors of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec.

Member of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

Member of the Information Technology and Cybersecurity Committee

• Capitale-Nationale
• Academia and road safety
• Appointed on April 1, 2015
• Reappointed on December 18, 2019
• Reappointed on September 3, 2024
• Four-year term
• Professor Emeritus at the Département de mathématiques et de statistique
  Université Laval

Jean-Marie De Koninck holds a bachelor of science degree from Université Laval and a master’s degree and doctorate in mathematics from Temple University in Pennsylvania. He is Professor Emeritus at Université Laval’s Département de mathématiques et de statistique and the president and founder of Operation Red Nose. He was also very active in the media during the ten years in which he served as Chair of the Table québécoise de la sécurité routière Jean-Marie De Koninck heads several projects, including Science and Mathematics in Action (SMAC), which aims to stimulate young people’s interest in science and mathematics, and to make mathematics more accessible to the general public. He has authored 17 books and has had 182 articles published in scientific journals. He is also an excellent popular mathematics and science writer, as demonstrated by his contributions to the “En chair et en maths” collection, a book on road safety entitled Routes et déroutes, and his most recent collection entitled Cette science qui ne cesse de nous étonner. He also serves on the boards of directors of Operation Red Nose and Université Laval’s Club de natation du Rouge et Or.

Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Member of the Information Technology and Cybersecurity Committee

Member of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

• Montérégie
• Road safety
• Appointed on December 13, 2021
• Reappointed on January 21, 2026
• Four-year term
• Engineer, member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec

Stéphan Deschênes holds a bachelor’s degree in rural engineering from Université Laval and is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. He has worked mainly for Québec’s Ministère des Transports where he has acted as Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for major roadwork projects and the Montréal metropolitan region, as well as General Manager of major projects such as the Turcot Interchange and the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Bridge-Tunnel. Mr. Deschênes is currently a retired public administrator.

Member of the Road Safety, Human Resources and Client Service Committee

Member of the Liabilities and Assets and Audit Committee

• Capitale-Nationale
• Business and road safety
• Appointed on January 21, 2026
• Four-year term
• Executive-level professional in the insurance and finance sectors

Simon Girard holds a bachelor’s degree in actuarial science and corporate governance certification from Université Laval. He is an executive-level professional in the insurance and finance sectors and a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He is the outgoing president of the administrative council of the Organisation québécoise des personnes atteintes du cancer and previously sat as the senior vice‑president of finance at CAA‑Québec and Promutuel Insurance, where he presided over sectors such as business strategy and risk monitoring.

Member of the Information Technology and Cybersecurity Committee

• Montérégie
• Business
• Appointed on November 26, 2025
• 18-month term
• Senior financial and project manager (CPA, CISA, CISSP, PMP) at Domtar inc.

Keven Tardif holds an advanced graduate diploma in government accounting and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal (HEC). He has certification in information security, IT audit and project management. He is currently the senior director of internal IT control assessment for Desjardins. Prior to that, he was a senior financial and project manager, and chief of internal auditing at Domtar. He also worked primarily in IT auditing as the director of Deloitte’s risk management department. Keven Tardif is the co-chair and a member of the board of governors for the LGBT+ Family Coalition. He also served as treasurer on the board of governors of ISACA’s Montréal chapter.