CLAUDE SÉGUIN APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Following the departure of Robert Parizeau, the Board of Directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ appointed Claude Séguin as Chairman at the recent Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Séguin joined the Fonds’ Board as a director in April 2017. Between October 2016 and March 2018, Claude Séguin served as Special Advisor to the Founder and Executive Chairman of CGI Group. Mr. Séguin joined CGI in 2003 as Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development and Strategic Investments, where he was responsible for the mergers and acquisitions team. Before that, Mr. Séguin was President of CDP Capital-Private Equity at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. From 1992 to 2000, he served as Executive Vice-President (Finance) and Chief Financial Officer of Teleglobe. From 1987 to 1992, Claude Séguin was Deputy Minister of Finance for the Government of Québec. For the four years before that he was Assistant Deputy Minister in charge of fiscal policy and government corporations. He was also previously employed by the Conseil du trésor du Québec. In addition to chairing the board of the Centraide of Greater Montréal Foundation, Mr. Séguin also sits on the boards of HEC Montréal, the Fondation 24h Tremblant and EXFO Inc. Claude Séguin holds a bachelor’s degree from HEC Montréal and a PhD in public administration from Syracuse University in New York. He is the co-author of the reports “Une métropole à la hauteur de nos aspirations” and “Le maintien et le développement des sièges sociaux au Québec.”