Board of Directors

A proud Franco-Ontarian, Mr. Jean Lépine holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario (EMBA 2002) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences, with a minor in Political Science, from the University of Ottawa, where he played university hockey from 1984 to 1989.

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.

Dominique O’Rourke is a Councillor for the City of Guelph, the President of Accolade Strategic Communications Group, and a Public Relations professor. Having practised public relations for over twenty-five years, Dominique provides strategic communications services to the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Whether by strategic planning, media or government relations, issues management or corporate communications, Dominique is firmly focused on the client’s objectives, with an eye for detail. Her clients include the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, Special Olympics Ontario, Community Foundations of Canada and Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council. After completing her Masters in Leadership at the Lang School of Business, University of Guelph, Dominique developed a particular expertise in the area of trust. Over the course of her career, she has also authored numerous national reports on belonging and wellness. As a proud Franco-Ontarian, Dominique founded the Réseau-Franco Guelph in 2017 and sits on the emerging Waterloo-Wellington Guelph Interagency Table. She served for 10 years on the Board of the Guelph Community Foundation and was one of the first members of the Leadership Advisory Board at the University of Guelph. Dominique also completed a Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Ottawa.

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.