Jacques Simoneau

Biography

 Jacques Simoneau is a Corporate Director with a comprehensive experience in investment, venture capital and technology. He has been recently appointed President and CEO of Univalor, a limited partnership founded in 2001 whose mission is to accelerate the transfer to industry of the results of research undertaken by researchers from the Université de Montréal, its affiliated schools and most of its affiliated hospitals. Mr Simoneau is a director of Transat A.T. and of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. He serves on the scientific committee of the Centre québécois de recherche et de développement de l’aluminium and on the advisory committee of the Université de Montréal’s faculty of medicine. Mr Simoneau was Executive Vice President Investments at the Business Development Bank of Canada (“BDC”) from 2006 to 2010. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Hydro-Québec CapiTech Inc, Senior Vice-President of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and CEO of Société Innovatech du sud du Québec. He also held executive positions at Advanced Scientific Computing and Alcan. Mr Simoneau is a mechanical engineer. He holds an MSc from Laval University and a PhD from Queen’s University. He is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and the Professional Engineers Ontario, and is certified ICD.D by the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Research Interest

  Earth Science, Oil and gas