As Senior Vice-President, Corporate services for BCE, André is responsible for several discrete areas of enterprise-wide operations, including one of the largest procurement portfolio in Canada, the Value Creation Team, which leads all major BCE restructuring initiatives and acquisition integrations, Corporate Security, including Cyber-Security, physical security, investigations and business continuity / crisis management, real estate portfolio and operations, the development and execution of BCE’s ESG strategy and corporate responsibility more generally, as well as Health and Safety.Between 2012 and 2015, André served as Senior Vice President for Wholesale, a business unit forces serving 700 telecommunications customers in 180 countries. During the same period, he was President of BCE Nexxia, the entity that owns and manages Bell’s network in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2011, André has occupied a series of executive functions, including VP Corporate Strategy.Before joining Bell, André was a strategy consultant with Kearney and Bain & Company in Paris and Boston. His main areas of client service were in private equity investment on the buy side and strategy for large technology companies. Previously, André has worked with the Privy Council Office of the Government of Canada and the United Nations.Born in Québec City, André received both his BA (Honours) and his B.C.L/LL.B from Montréal's McGill University. An active member of the community since his return to Montreal in 2007, he sits on the boards of the Azrieli Foundation, Equitas, CORIM, the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the Public Policy Forum. He is also a proud and somewhat still startled co-founder of the Banff forum.