Board of Trustees

Message from the chair of the BOD

The Montréal fashion industry has everything it needs to succeed: cultural and linguistic diversity, a high-quality workforce, a dynamic educational system, a strategic geographic position, and a highly effervescent design and creative community.

To keep our leadership status in Canada, it was necessary to gather industry players around common goals. With mmode, we have created a platform for exchange and collaboration to stimulate growth and increase competitiveness.

My children will be taking my place. It is for them and for their generation that I want my industry to succeed here and globally!

François Roberge

Executive council

Chair

Vice-Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

Working group presidents

Working Group President — Industry Image

Working Group President — Human Resources

Working Group President — Innovation

Working Group President — Export

Other board directors

• Marilyne Baril, MARIGOLD par Marilyne Baril
• David Chagnon, Anne-Marie Chagnon
• Olivier Delisle, Trendays
• Teresa Eloy, Fur Council of Canada
• Leonard Gorski, Gorski Group
• Simon La Rochelle, Royer
• Elliot Lifson, Peerless Clothing
• Jean-Philippe Robert, Quartz Co.
• Marco Roy, Cégep Marie-Victorin
• Jean-François Sigouin, Les Collections SHAN Inc.
• Linda Tremblay, Fashion Designers’ Council of Québec (CCMQ)
• Eric Wazana, Yoga Jeans / Second Clothing, Apparel Quebec

Observer members

• Alexander Artus, Canadian Textile Industry Association (CTIA)
• Cynthia Delisle, Export Québec (MESI)
• François Bousquet, LaSalle College
• Yves Charette (Catherine Lavoie), Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM)
• Linda Cyrenne, Comité sectoriel de main-d’œuvre de l’industrie textile du Québec (CSMO Textile)
• Hélène Chamberland, Ministère de l’Économie, de la Science et de l’Innovation – Québec (MESI)
• Denis Falardeau, Shoe Manufacturers’ Association of Canada
• Louis Gourdeau, Fonds de solidarité FTQ
• Paulette Kaci, Vestechpro, Cégep Marie-Victorin
• Bob Kirke, Canadian Apparel Federation (CAF)
• Patricia Lapierre, Détail Québec
• Géraldine Martin, Ville de Montréal
• Alain Michaud, PwC
• Jacek Mlynarek, CTT Group Saint-Hyacinthe
• Odette Nappert, Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy (CNDF)
• Rose-Marie Tasseroul, Secrétariat à la région métropolitaine – Gouvernement du Québec
• Sébastien Thériault, Davies
• Léopold Turgeon, Conseil québécois du commerce de détail (CQCD)
• Donald H. Violette, Direction régionale de l’île de Montréal, Emploi-Québec
• Debbie Zakaib, Grappe mmode