Hélène Desmarais

Hélène Desmarais, holder of a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance from HEC Montréal, is president and chief executive officer of the Centre d’Entreprises et d’Innovation de Montréal, Canada’s largest incubator of technology companies. Ms. Desmarais chairs several other boards, including those of the Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain, HEC Montréal, the Société de développement économique Ville-Marie and the Société d’investissement jeunesse. She also heads the advisory boards of the faculty of medicine of the University of Montreal and of the Conference of Montreal.