Governance

Main responsibilities

• Sets up and evaluates the governance program
• Forms the committees needed to help fulfill its responsibilities
• Ensures that the Company operates in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
• Verifies the effectiveness of control mechanisms and the reliability of reports and financial results

Chair

René Bégin, FCPA, ASC
Lévis, Quebec
Tax Consultant, Lemieux Nolet, S.E.N.C.R.L.
Director, Caisse Desjardins de Lévis

Vice-Chair

Serge Rousseau, Company Managing Director
Thetford-Mines, Québec
Director, Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec
Director, Caisse Desjardins du Carrefour des lacs
Director, Desjardins Trust

Directors

Jean-François Blais, FICA, FCAS
Verdun, Quebec
Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Audit Committee and President of the Investment and Risk Committee, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Member of the Board of Directors, President of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and Member of the Development and Innovation Committee, Loto-Québec

Èva Maglis, MBA, ASC
Montreal, Quebec
Director, Fondation des jeunes de la DPJ

Patrick Ouellet, Lawyer/Pharmacist
Quebec, Quebec
Owner-Pharmacist, Pharmacy Patrick Ouellet
Director, Caisse Desjardins de Beauport

Christine Sayegh Filgiano, CFA, ASC, C.Dir.
Westmount, Quebec
Member of the Board of Directors and Audit and Finance Committee, Avenue 31 Capital Inc.
Member of the Management Committee, Fonds de dotation de l’Université de Montréal
Director, Member of the Audit and Finance Committee and Member of the Human Resources Committee, Triovest Inc.

Robert St-Aubin, FCPA
Repentigny, Quebec
Partner, Demers Beaulne L.L.P.

Karine Toupin, M.B.A., ASC
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec
Lawyer-Entrepreneur, Delegatus Director
Member of the Governance Committee, Caisse Desjardins de Cap-Rouge-Saint-Augustin

Hélène Pouliot, FICA, FSA, CERA
Brampton, Ontario
Independent Advisor, Life and Health Insurance
Past President, Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Member of the supervisory board of the actuarial profession

Michel Poissant, CPA
La Prairie, Quebec
Chief Financial Officer, GECA Environnement
Director, Caisse Desjardins de l’Est et du Centre de Laval

Stéphane Plante, Pharmacist
Rimouski, Quebec
Owner-Pharmacist, Pharmaprix Group
Chair of the Board, Caisse Desjardins de Rimouski
Chair of the Decision-Making Committee, Fonds d’assurance responsabilité professionnelle de l’Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec

Main responsibilities

• Oversees governance matters
• Submits human resources policies and broad directions to the Board

Members

• René Bégin (Chair)
• Serge Rousseau
• Karine Toupin
• Stéphane Plante

Main responsibilities

• Takes an active role in reviewing and approving the investment strategy
• Examines and makes recommendations on investment policies
• Puts in place monitoring and control mechanisms that ensure investments are handled in a proactive and prospective manner

Members

• Christine Sayegh Filgiano (Chair)
• Hélène Pouliot
• Patrick Ouellet

Main responsibilities

• Oversees financial reporting
• Ensures that sound and prudent management practices are adhered to and situations contrary to such practices are detected
• Ensures the efficiency and independence of the internal control system and of internal and external auditing processes

Members

• Robert St-Aubin (Chair)
• Hélène Pouliot
• Michel Poissant

Main responsibilities

• Oversees risk management processes
• Ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and sound business practices and that situations contrary to such practices are detected

Members

• Robert St-Aubin
• Isabelle Laplante (Observer)
• Claudia Champagne
• Èva Maglis
• Karine Toupin