Board of Directors

Maxim Jean-Louis is President – Chief Executive Officer of Contact North | Contact Nord since 1996. Through 116 online learning centres across Ontario, Contact North I Contact Nord helps underserved Ontarians in 800 small rural, remote, Indigenous and Francophone communities access post-secondary education and training. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Renewed Computer Technology. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Board of Governors of Laurentian University and the Board of Directors of the Sudbury Art Gallery and of l’Association de l’Hôpital Montfort.

Mrs. Larose has a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Political Science from York University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She worked for the Ontario Government as the Director of International Business Development with the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, as well as Director of Special Projects with the Office des affaires francophones (Ministry of Francophone Affairs).

Carole Myre has been the Artistic Director for the Centre of Artistic Excellence at École secondaire De La Salle since 2009. Before that, Ms. Myre has held many positions in the education and arts sectors, where she has produced many events.

Dominique O'Rourke holds a Masters degree in Leadership from the University of Guelph. Today she is a Guelph City Councilor, owner of Communications Accolade and Professor of Public Relations.

Mr. Claveau received a Bachelor of Arts in Polical Economics from Laval University. A francophone who is engaged with his community, he has made contributions within the National Assemblee of Quebec and also through work with the Ottawa Parliament. For the last 8 years, Mr. Claveau has worked in various roles within the Canadian financial sector focused on Investment Banking.

Yannick Lallement holds a doctorate degree in artificial intelligence. He is currently director, data science and machine learning at Scotiabank. He leads a team of data scientists dedicated to the analysis and use of digital banking and operations data, in order to continuously improve the user experience for the bank's customers. Prior to this role, Yannick held multiple positions where he developed analytics and machine learning models.

Julie Lantaigne is passionate about reinforcing access to health services as well as supporting the continual growth of individuals and their communities. Her more than twenty-five years of experience working with individuals and communities in various social service positions and advisory committees is crucial to her role as Executive Director of the French Health Network of Central Southwestern Ontario. Ms. Lantaigne has demonstrated this passion by serving as an advisor on several committees for provincial and national strategic development within and for the Société Santé en français, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Child and Youth Services. She has worked closely with the Local Health Integration Networks and the Alliance of Ontario Resource Networks as well as collaboratively with the French Language Health Planning Entities in Ontario (6 Entities) to ensure provincial coordination of health planning. At the federal level, she is a driving force behind many structuring committees to maximize national efforts to increase impact and reduce cost in French language delivery of services and to increase the effectiveness of the organizational capacities of the country's 16 health networks. Ms. educational background reflects her hard work and devotion. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Development studies and a specialization in Sexuality, Marriage, and the Family. She also holds a diploma in Social Service Work from Fanshawe College in London. Ms. Lantaigne has called a variety of regions home in her life journey. She was born and raised in the Timiskaming Shores region of northern Ontario. She attended school and worked in the London-Middlesex and Kitchener-Waterloo regions, has worked in the Nipissing region, and has raised her three (now adult) children in the Hamilton-Niagara region where she continues to reside with her spouse of 29 years.