Pierre Lortie is a Senior Business Advisor at Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, a major law firm recognized as a leader in business related legal matters across Canada. He is also a Director of Group Canam Inc. (TSX:CAM), Tembec Inc. (TSX:TMB), Element Financial Inc. and Chairman of Biocean Canada Inc.

He is also President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, a Governor of The Ditchley Foundation (U.K.), a member of the Advisory Board on small and medium size enterprises of the Autorité des marchés financiers, and a Director of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and of the Montréal Cancer Institute and of Classica Festival.

Pierre has held senior executive positions at Bombardier until December 2003 where he has served as President and COO of Bombardier Transportation; President and COO of Bombardier Capital; President and COO of Bombardier International; and President of Bombardier Aerospace, Regional Aircraft.  He has been Chairman, President and CEO of Provigo Inc.; President and CEO of the Montréal Stock Exchange and a Senior Partner of Secor Inc. 

Pierre has also held several government appointments. He served as Chairman of Canada’s Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. He was a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999 to 2003. In the technology field, he served as Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation and as Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology.

He served as Chairman of the Montréal Demerger Transition Committee from its inception on June 21, 2004 until the end of its mandate on December 31, 2005, and he acted as the Representative of the public authorities with regard to the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), the Centre hospitalier universitaire de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) modernization projects.

He received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago, a licence in applied economics from the Université Louvain, Belgium and a Bachelor’s degree in applied sciences (engineering physics) from Université Laval, Canada. He was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in civil law from Bishop’s University. He received his certification from the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.

Pierre was appointed member of the Order of Canada in 2001.