Executive Committee

A proud Franco-Ontarian, Michelle Séguin is a strategic and experienced change management leader who has worked in large, multi-stakeholder environments under intense public scrutiny. Michelle is a Chartered Professional Accountant and CA, has an MBA from Queen's and obtained a Chartered Director designation from McMaster DeGroote Business School. She has over twenty-five years of senior management experience in the public sector as Chief Administrative Officer and Vice-President of Legal Aid Ontario, Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Chief Risk Officer at the Ontario Deposit Insurance Corporation, and as Director, Finance and Treasurer of the City of Oakville. Michelle joined TFO in June 2019, assuming several strategic positions, in finance, human resources, legal, and support to the Board of Directors. Michelle has been Acting CEO at TFO since February 2022. Michelle also serves on two non-profit boards, the Canadian Hearing Services and World Animal Protection (Canada).

A manager in the media world for more than 40 years, Claude began his career at Videotron in Montreal where he worked there for 27 years, accumulating various positions in operations management, marketing and programming as supervisor, director and then Vice- President. He then worked as Senior Director of Programming, Communication and Marketing for TFO in Toronto, Strategic Advisor to the President at RDS and finally Director of Programming at Pelmorex / Météomédia. A great admirer of Francophone communities across Canada, whom he has come to know since his years at TFO's Programming Department in 2008, Claude has become by heart and by choice a convinced Franco-Ontarian since 2015 and now lives in Alexandria in Eastern Ontario where he is increasingly involved in this community. He has returned to TFO to provide vice president content management at TFO since last November.

Francis is a dynamic bilingual senior executive with a solid track record of achievements in demanding environments in various industries. He continuously achieves success by delivering results, building high impact teams, creating strategic alliances with cross-functional leaders, and streamlining / standardizing processes to enhance productivity and profitability.

A fearless executive champion of the creative process, an innovative risk taker and master producer of digital content.

Poonam has lived and worked in several countries including Mauritius, where she is from, UK, Ireland and now Canada. Its international perspective will naturally be integrated into that of TFO, which is already solidly enriched by a great deal of expertise and a cultural diversity from more than twenty countries of the international Francophonie. An expert in human resources who has worked in renowned technological structures such as Ceridian and other well-established music and visual arts institutions such as Socan, Poonam brings with her a knowledge of the field and an in-depth approach to the workplace.

Sylvie Roussel est Conseillère principale juridique pour Groupe Média TFO depuis novembre 2021. Originaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, Sylvie est passionnée de la promotion de la langue française. Elle a fait ses études de common law et de MBA en français et a été impliquée dans la formation juridique en français de conseillers juridiques travaillant au sein du ministère du Procureur général.