METRO - Key Persons


Alain Tadros - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Marketing

Brian McManus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Carmen Fortino

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President, National Supply Chain and Procurement

Christian W.E. Haub

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Managing Partner of the Tengelmann Group
Mr. Haub is the sole managing partner of the Tengelmann Group and Chairman of the Management Board of Tengelmann Twenty-One KG. He is the founder and Chairman of Emil Capital Partners, the United States venture capital company of the Tengelmann Group. From 1991 to 2012, he has held various executive positions (including chair of the board of directors) at The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Tengelmann, until its divestiture in 2012. He holds a Master's degree in Social and Economic Sciences from the Austrian University of Economics and Business Administration.

Christina Bédard

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Continuous Improvement

Christine Magee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Co - Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc
  • Member of Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee
Ms. Magee is co-founder and chair of the board of directors of Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. where she also assumed the role of President from 1994 to 2014. Ms. Magee serves on the board of directors of TELUS Corporation where she is a member of the Pension Committee and Human Resources and Compensation Committee. She also is on the board of directors of other private and not-for-profit organizations (Trillium Health Partners, Woodbine Entertainment Group and The Talent Fund). She was director of Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. from 2014 to 2016, Cott Corporation from 2004 to 2008 as well as of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited from 1999 to 2004. She holds an Honours Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (HBA) from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey Business School). She was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.

Dan Gabbard

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Logistics and Distribution

Eric R. La Flèche - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President

François J. Coutu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

François Thibault - CFO, EVP, Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Executive Vice President
  • Treasurer

Frédéric Legault - CIO, VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Vice President

Geneviève Bich

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Human Resources

Guillaume Duchesne

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Application Systems

Jean-Michel Coutu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President, the Pharmacy Division

Karin Jonsson - VP

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Controller
  • Vice President

Lori-Ann Beausoleil

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Director
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Ms. Beausoleil is a corporate director and a recently retired Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PwC"). Over her 35-year career at PwC, she held various leadership positions including National Leader - Compliance, Ethics and Governance, Real Estate Leader, National Forensic Services Leader and a member of PwC's Deals Leadership Team. She currently is a Board member and Audit Committee Chair of Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (CAPREIT), Board member and Audit Committee Chair of Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (a private REIT) and Board member, Audit Committee member and Compensation, Governance and Nominating Committee member of Slate Office REIT. She is also a member of the Canadian Chartered Professional Accountants and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario and is a CPA Ontario Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.

Marc Giroux

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - Food

Marc Guay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Marie-Claude Bacon

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications

Maryse Bertrand

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman of Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee
  • Chairman of the Board of Governors of McGill University
  • Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee ( Chair )
Ms. Bertrand is Chair of the Board of Governors of McGill University and a corporate director. She is a member of the Board of Directors of National Bank of Canada, PSP Investments, and Gildan Activewear Inc. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Corporate Directors of which she was, from 2019 to 2021, the Chair of the Board (Quebec Chapter). From 2016 to 2017, she was Strategic Advisor and Counsel at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and, prior to that, she was Vice-President, Real Estate Services, Legal Services and General Counsel at CBC/Radio-Canada. Before 2009, she was a partner of Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP. She was named Advocatus emeritus (Ad. E.) in 2007 by the Québec Bar. Ms. Bertrand holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University and a Master's degree in Risk Management from New York University (Stern School of Business).

Michel Avigliano

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Real Estate and Engineering

Montréal, Québec

Job Titles:
  • Director

Pierre Boivin - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Member of Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee
  • President and Chief Executive Officer of Claridge Inc
Mr. Boivin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Claridge Inc., a private investment firm. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Bank of Canada and the CH Group Inc., which manages the activities of the Club de Hockey Canadien, Inc., the Bell Centre, evenko and L'Équipe Spectra Inc. From 2013 to 2020, he was a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited. Since 2017, he has been involved in the development of artificial intelligence in Quebec and Canada. From 2004 to 2018, he was a board member and the Chairman, from 2006 to 2012, of the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation. He studied Commerce at McGill University. Mr. Boivin was named Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec in 2017. In 2009, the Université de Montréal awarded him an honorary Doctorate and he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada.

Pietro John Rollo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, National Procurement

Russell Goodman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Lead Independent Director, Chair of the Audit Committee and Member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of Northland Power Inc
  • Member of Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee
Mr. Goodman is Lead Independent Director, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of Northland Power Inc., and is a director, and member of the Audit and Finance and Human Resources and Compensation Committees of Gildan Activewear Inc. He spent his business career at PwC until his retirement in 2011 where, from 1998 to 2011, he was Managing Partner of various business units in Canada and for the Americas and held global leadership roles in the services and transportation industry sectors. Mr. Goodman is a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant and a graduate of McGill University. He is a Fellow of theOrder of Professional Chartered Accountants of Québec. He is a recipient of the Governor General of Canada's Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers and is a member of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame. He is also a graduate of the Directors Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).

Sam Bernier

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Technological Infrastructure

Simon Rivet - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary, VP

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Secretary
  • General Counsel
  • Vice President

Stephanie Coyles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Director and Member of the Governance
  • Member of Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee
Ms. Coyles is a director and member of the Governance, Investment and Conduct Review Committee and the Management Resources Committee of Sun Life Financial Inc., as well as a director and member of the Audit Committee and of the Human Resources and Compensation Committee at Corus Entertainment Inc. From March 2019 to February 2020, she was a board member of Hudson's Bay Company prior to it becoming a private company. Prior to becoming a corporate director, Ms. Coyles was Chief Strategic Officer at LoyaltyOne Co. from 2008 to 2012 and, before that, spent most of her career as a management consultant and eventually as a partner at McKinsey & Company. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Queen's University and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government). She is a graduate of the Directors Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and completed a CERT certificate in cybersecurity oversight from Carnegie Mellon University and the Board Oversight Climate Change program offered by the ICD.