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
François Roberge
President and CEO
Boutique la Vie en Rose inc.
Vice-Chair
Louis Bibeau
President and CEO
Logistik Unicorp
Secretary
Marie-Eve Faust
Director and professor
École supérieure de mode
ESG UQAM
ESG UQAM
Treasurer
François Lapierre
President
Claudel Lingerie | Lilianne Lingerie
Working group presidents
Working Group President — Industry Image
Valérie Martin
Vice Presidente, Communications & Culture
ALDO Group
Working Group President — Human Resources
Claude Marchand
President and CEO
LCI Education Network
LaSalle College
LaSalle College
Working Group President — Innovation
Vacancy
Working Group President — Export
Jean-Philippe Robert
President
Quartz Co.
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.
- Philippe Dubuc, Fashion Designers’ Council of Québec (CCMQ)
- Eric Wazana, Yoga Jeans / Second Clothing, Apparel Quebec
Observer members
- Alexander Artus, Canadian Textile Industry Association (CTIA)
- Claudia Lambert, Export Québec
- François Bousquet, LaSalle College
- 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)
- Manuel Champagne, Détail Québec
- Jacek Mlynarek, CTT Group Saint-Hyacinthe
- Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy (CNDF)
- Éliane Sfeir, 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