Team

During his 40-year career in audit and consulting services at Deloitte, he has provided services to small and medium-sized businesses, large corporations, private companies, publicly traded companies, cooperatives and public institutions. These companies were active in a multitude of sectors including forestry and lumber, industrial products, financial services and the public sector.

In addition to being dedicated to client services, he has held numerous management positions within the firm, including market leader for Quebec City and the Quebec regions. At the time of his retirement in June 2019, Mr. Turgeon was acting as a market-leading partner for medium and large businesses in Quebec.

Today, he serves on numerous boards of directors for private companies, cooperatives and non-profit organizations. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Deloitte Canada, and a member of the Finance, Compensation and Risk Management subcommittees. Finally, he has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, the Collège de Lévis, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the committee and council of the Quebec Order of Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA).

Mr Paul Michaud, entrepreneur, executive, manager, consultant.

For about ten years, he participated in the start-up and/or turnaround of companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors. In 1986, he acquired a small casket manufacturing company, Les Cercueils-Alliance-Saint Laurent, which became a North American leader in the industry with three factories in Quebec and in New Brunswick, a partnership with venture capital and distribution networks all across America. In 2010, he will sell his stake to one of his American partners. This was followed by a Certification in Corporate Governance (CCG). Then, with two partners, he started LPM-Transition, specialized in transition coaching for business leaders, their successors and their teams.

He actively participates on various Boards of Directors and Advisory Councils, and enjoys coaching and advising executives.

Guylaine Brochu holds degrees in arts and letters, business administration and marketing, and is a graduate of the Collège des Administrateurs de Sociétés and of the Harvard Business School. She began her career in the Agri-Marché division, where she held the position of Senior Director of the poultry sector. Vice-president of the Groupe Brochu since 2013, she presides over the L’Outilleur Centre de rénovation division, under the Home Hardware banner.

Guylaine has served on the Board of Directors of Home Hardware Stores Limited since 2019. She is currently a director on the Board of Groupe Brochu while devoting herself to the family succession of the company.

Involved as a volunteer in her professional and community circles, Guylaine has participated in the organization of events for the Sclerosis Society of Canada of Chaudière-Appalaches and is a member of the Board of Directors for the l’Hôtel Dieu de Lévis Foundation, where she chairs the Governance Committee. She was a director of the Quebec Association of Animal and Cereal Nutrition Industries (AQINAC), the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada (ANAC), and the Quebec Hardware and Building Supply Association (AQMAT).

Vice President Innovation and Technology Development since 2014 at Agri-Marché, Jean-Pierre Brochu has a long history with the company. After his training in administration at Université Laval, he began his career at Agri-Marché, becoming Director of Supply and Logistics and then Director of Operations.

A graduate of the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés, he has shared his knowledge of grain supply, logistics, development and marketing by sitting on the Table filière des gains, the Association des commerçants de grains du Québec (ACGQ), the Board of Directors for the CGQ (Concertation Grains Québec) and various other industry-related committees. A shareholder of Groupe Brochu, Jean-Pierre is a director of both Groupe Brochu and Nova Grain.

With degrees in agriculture (management consulting) and a BACC in administration, Patrice Brochu began his career at Avibro as Director of Operations and General Manager. In 2001, Patrice joined the Agri-Marché team as Assistant General Manager and became Vice President in 2004. In 2008, he took the reins to manage the company. Patrice has been president of Groupe Brochu and its main divisions since 2013.

In recent years, he has had the opportunity to sit on various industry boards such as the Quebec Association of Animal and Cereal Nutrition Industries (AQINAC) and the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada (ANAC). He is currently a director on the boards of Nova Grain and Olymel.