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Maurice Tousson Rupert Duchesne
She is Chairman of the Board of Directors of DAVIDsTEA. He is the Group Chief Executive and a director of Aimia Inc.
is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of CDREM (TSX:AIM), the international loyalty management company
Group Inc., a chain of retail stores known as Centre du Rasoir that owns and operates the Aeroplan program in Canada,
or Personal Edge, a position he held from January 2000. Mr. the Nectar program in the United Kingdom and Italy, and Air
Tousson has held executive positions at well-known Canadian Miles Middle East (60% owned), and which provides pro-
specialty stores, including Chateau Stores of Canada, Con- prietary loyalty and data-analytic services to clients in 20
sumers Distributing and Sports Experts, with responsibilities countries. Mr. Duchesne previously held a number of senior
for operations, finance, marketing and corporate develop- officer positions at Air Canada from 1996, and prior thereto
ment. Mr. Tousson holds an MBA degree from Long Island was involved in strategy and investment consulting. He is
University in New York. currently a Director of Mattamy Homes Ltd. He was previ-
ously a Director of Alliance Atlantis Communications Interna-
tional Inc. Mr. Duchesne holds an MBA degree from Manches-
Dian Cohen ter Business School and a B.Sc. (Hons) degree from Leeds
is an economist by training and a consultant in strategic University in the United Kingdom.
financial, business, economic information and corporate gov-
ernance to government, privately-owned businesses, publicly
traded corporations and not-for-profit organizations. She has Michelle Cormier
served on the Board of Directors of some of Canada’s largest CPA, CA is Operating Partner for the Québec-based invest-
publicly-traded companies and several not-for-profit entities. ments of Wynnchurch Capital (Canada) Ltd., a $2.3 billion
Ms. Cohen was CTV’s first national business editor; her radio private equity fund. Prior to joining Wynnchurch, she was
and television commentaries and analyses as well as her Chief Financial Officer of a privately-held company and of
syndicated print columns enjoyed a wide following. She is a a publicly-traded forest products company with operations
member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba. in Canada and the United States. Ms. Cormier has exten-
sive senior management experience in corporate strategy,
Alain Benedetti finance, human resources and turnaround situations. She is
an accredited corporate director and has strong knowledge
FCPA, FCA, ICD.D is the retired Vice Chairman of Ernst & and experience in corporate governance. She serves on the
Young LLP, where he worked for 34 years, most recently as Boards of Directors of Cascades Inc., Champion Iron Limited
the Canadian area managing partner, overseeing all Cana- and Uni-Select Inc.
dian operations. Prior thereto, he was the managing partner
for eastern Canada and the Montréal office. Mr. Benedetti has
extensive experience with both public and private companies
and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Russel Met-
als Inc. and Discovery Air Inc. A former Chair of the Canadian
Institute of Chartered Accountants, Mr. Benedetti has served
on the Audit Committee of the Company since 2004 and has
been its Chair since 2005.
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