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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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