Full professor, Department of Marketing, HEC Montréal, member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec, holder of a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and an MBA in Marketing and International Management from HEC Montréal, Johanne Brunet, CPA-CGA, MBA, PhD, is also a graduate of the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés (ASC). She was the 1999 winner of the Action femmes d'affaires award from the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal and a finalist for the 2013 Business Professor of the Year Award within the competition of the famous weekly magazine The Economist. Johanne Brunet was Director of External Production and Acquisitions at Radio-Canada, and then worked as Senior Vice-President at TV5-Amériques. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Société des alcools du Québec and the Société québécoise du cannabis and also sits on the Board of Directors of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert as well as on other boards in England.

Graduate of the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Social Sciences degrees, Laetitia Angba has extensive experience in the community and social fields. She has received several awards and honours in recent years. Nominated for the 2017 cohort of Concertation Montréal's Réseau jeunes femmes leaders (RJFL), she has been working since 2014 for the Fondation du Dr Julien, following experience with the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva and the Women's Resource Centre in the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa. In addition to her professional activities, Laetitia Angba is currently completing a specialized graduate diploma (D.E.S.S.) in business administration at HEC Montréal and is a volunteer with the Parc-Extension Youth Organization (PEYO) to improve the quality of life of residents in this neighbourhood. She is known for her ability to bring together relevant partners to develop promising projects for the community.

Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Fondation du CHUM, Julie Chaurette, FCPA, FCA, a graduate of the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés (ASC) and certified by the Chartered Director's Program (C.Dir), is recognized for her expertise in accounting, integrated risk management, finance and financial communication. She was notably Vice-President of Financial Information at Ivanhoe Cambridge, after holding senior management positions at General Trust of Canada and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Involved in numerous organizations, she is a member of several boards of directors and a member of the Governance committee of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec. Her commitment earned her the 2014 CPA Award of Excellence for Community Service. Julie Chaurette was recently awarded the title of Fellow of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec (CPA), designated by the acronym FCPA, which recognizes the merit of members who have outstandingly devoted their time and effort to the profession.

Chairman of the Fondation de l'Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal (OMHM), Fabien Cournoyer is an experienced administrator, familiar with both real estate issues and the operations of public and para-public companies. He was notably the Executive Director of the OMHM, after having held various positions related to housing or economic and urban development within Ville de Montréal and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

Member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec since 1975, Robert Juneau, CPA, CA, has nearly 15 years of experience in financial auditing in the public and private sectors, in addition to two decades of expertise as a senior executive in the municipal sector, within Ville de Montréal and the Communauté urbaine de Montréal, among other organizations. Since 2006, in addition to being a member of the boards of directors and audit committees of a number of organizations, he has served as an accounting and financial management consultant for various companies and has participated in arbitration committees for the settlement of contractual disputes.

Honorary professor at HEC Montréal, Alain Lapointe pursued a career as a professor in Economics, specializing in real estate finance and urban economics. He was Director of HEC's Department of Applied Economics and the Centre d'étude en administration internationale. He has served as a consultant for many public and private organizations and also as a member of the boards of directors of the various real estate subsidiaries of CDPQ, Cadim, Société immobilière Trans Québec (SITQ), Ivanhoe Cambridge and Presima Inc. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Agence de l'efficacité énergétique du Québec.

Member of the Ordre des ingénieurs, with a Bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering and a Master's degree in Construction Project Management from ETS as well as a Master's degree in Business Administration from HEC Montréal, Guillaume Lavoie has over 12 years of experience in construction project management. Currently a project manager, he has worked on commercial, institutional, industrial, hospital, airport and hydroelectric projects in Canada and abroad.

Member of the Ordre des architectes since 1990, Ana Nunes has solid expertise in construction. She has held project management positions at the Société de la Place des Arts and the Université de Sherbrooke. In 2005, she was elected Borough Councillor in Outremont, a position she held until November 2013. Very involved in her community, she is a member of various boards of directors and Ville de Montréal's Commission de la culture et des loisirs as well as the Commission sur le développement social et la diversité montréalaise. She also chaired Outremont's Urban planning advisory committee from 2007 to 2010.

As a lawyer, Marie-José Roux Fauteux worked for nearly 20 years at Fasken-Martineau, where she developed extensive experience in real estate law. As an SHDM collaborator on a number of projects, including the establishment of the World Trade Centre and the initial development of Faubourg Québec, she has relevant and much sought-after expertise in urban development.