Hubert T. Lacroix
President and CEO

Hubert T. Lacroix was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on November 5, 2007, for a five-year term beginning on January 1, 2008.

As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/Radio-Canada in order to ensure that Canada's national public broadcaster can deliver on the various aspects of its mandate and continue to offer Canadians a broad spectrum of high quality programming that informs, enlightens and entertains, and that is created by, for and about Canadians.

Just before joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice. Prior to this, Mr. Lacroix was Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation and of the other Boards of Directors of the various companies in the Telemedia corporate structure. Before joining Telemedia, he was a Senior Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, a major Canadian law firm.

Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master's degree in Business Administration (1981) from McGill University. He has been a member of the Bar since 1977.

In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company, as well as a Director of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.

Maryse Bertrand
Vice-President, Real Estate Services, Legal Services and General Counsel

Maryse Bertrand is responsible for the real estate portfolio of CBC/Radio-Canada across Canada and abroad and for the General Counsel’s offices in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, the Corporate Secretariat and the administration of the access to information and privacy laws. Before coming to CBC/Radio-Canada, Ms. Bertrand was a partner specialising in securities law and mergers and acquisitions at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg (1981−2009).

Ms. Bertrand earned an honours bachelor’s degree in civil law from McGill University in 1980. (University Scholar 1978−1980). Ms. Bertrand is a member of the Quebec Bar, which awarded her the distinction of Advocatus Emeritus (Ad. E.) in 2007, and a member of the Canadian Bar Association and American Bar Association.

Ms. Bertrand is a director and member of the Risk Management and Audit Committee of the National Bank of Canada, the chair of the board of directors of ARTV and a founding member and director of Cinemania, a non-profit organization.

William B. Chambers
Vice-President, Brand, Communications and Corporate Affairs

William B. Chambers was appointed CBC/Radio-Canada’s Vice-President, Brand, Communications and Corporate Affairs, on September 15, 2008. Previously, he was Vice-President, Communications, appointed on
January 15, 2003.

Mr. Chambers is responsible for developing and implementing a single coherent corporate branding strategy for CBC/Radio-Canada, for leading internal and external communications across the Corporation, and for formulating the overall strategic direction for the promotion and marketing of programs. He also oversees the Government Relations group, which puts forward the Corporation’s interests to Members of Parliament, and advises the President and CEO and his colleagues on these issues.

Prior to joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Chambers was based in London, England, where he was Managing Director, Europe, for Goldfarb Consultants.

Mr. Chambers holds a Master of Business Administration from the European School of Management (EAP) in Paris, France (1996), and has completed the Executive Education Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1993).

Steven Guiton
Vice-President and Chief Regulatory Officer

Steven Guiton, Vice-President and Chief Regulatory Officer, was appointed to CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Executive Team in June 2009.

Mr. Guiton is responsible for developing and implementing television and radio regulatory policies across the Corporation, pursuant to the Broadcasting Act, and for all representations before the CRTC.

Mr. Guiton is also responsible for Media Technology Services, which provides centralized technology services and expertise nationally to CBC/Radio-Canada media and corporate clients, including telecommunications, transmission and new broadcast technologies. He also oversees the Corporation’s advertising standards policies.

Before becoming Vice-President and Chief Regulatory Officer, Mr. Guiton was CBC/Radio-Canada’s Executive Director, Strategy and Government Relations. Mr. Guiton holds an M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University and a B.A. in Economics and Commerce from the University of Toronto; he also attended the University of British Columbia for doctoral studies in Economics.

Louis Lalande
Executive Vice-President, French Services

Louis Lalande was appointed Executive Vice-President of CBC/Radio-Canada French Services on January 16, 2012, after holding the position on an interim basis since September 26, 2011.

Mr. Lalande oversees all aspects of CBC/Radio-Canada’s French-language programming services, which include, among other things, Télévision de Radio-Canada, Réseau de l’information de Radio-Canada (RDI), ARTV, Radio de Radio-Canada, Radio Canada International (RCI), Radio-Canada.ca, Espace.mu and Tou.tv.

Mr. Lalande has been in the news business for 25 years, mainly at Radio-Canada. Before joining CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Executive Team, he was Executive Director of Regional Services, which comprise television, radio and web services. Prior to that, he helped establish the Centre de l’information de Radio-Canada in Montreal where he was the News and Current Affairs Director for Télévision de Radio-Canada and RDI for more than two years, after having been Executive Director of Technical Production. Mr. Lalande stopped working for the national public broadcaster for a few years, during which he notably created LCN, TVA’s all-news television channel.

Suzanne Morris
Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer

Suzanne Morris was appointed CBC/Radio-Canada’s Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective April 2009.

In addition to being responsible for all aspects of financial management and corporate information technology for Canada’s national public broadcaster, Ms. Morris plays an instrumental role in helping to achieve a sustainable economic model for the future of the Corporation.

Before becoming a member of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Executive Team, Ms. Morris was Secretary/Treasurer to the CBC Pension Board of Trustees, where she was responsible for the CFO, IT, risk management, benefit administration and secretariat functions at the Pension Fund and managed operations through a period of financial market turmoil and credit crisis.

Ms. Morris earned her Bachelor of Commerce degree with honours from the University of Ottawa in 1986 and holds a Chartered Accountant designation. She is an Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario prize-winner and served as a marker for the Institute’s professional examinations. She has also lectured on accounting topics at the University of Ottawa. In 2011, Ms. Morris was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Ottawa.

Kirstine Stewart
Executive Vice-President, English Services

Kirstine Stewart is the Executive Vice-President of CBC’s English Services, CBC/Radio-Canada.

Appointed to this role in January 2011, Ms. Stewart is responsible for overseeing CBC’s English radio and audio, television and digital operations, covering multiple media platforms across the country. She was previously appointed General Manager of CBC Television in 2006.

Prior to joining CBC, Ms. Stewart was Senior Vice-President, Programming, Alliance Atlantis. There she was responsible for overseeing the programming of 17 international broadcast channels watched by more than 50 million people worldwide.

Ms. Stewart is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Global Leadership in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

She is a founding board member of Culture Days and sits on the Banff Television and Film Festival board, as well as and on the boards of White Knights and Amfar.

Michel Tremblay
Senior Vice-President, Corporate Strategy and Business Partnerships

Michel Tremblay was appointed Senior Vice-President, Corporate Strategy and Business Partnerships in September 2008. He was previously Vice-President, Strategy and Business Development since 2001.

Mr. Tremblay is responsible for all strategic planning across the organization. He also oversees Corporate Business Partnerships, and Audience Research and Strategic Analysis. Mr. Tremblay sits on the Board of Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., which provides satellite radio service to more than 2 million Canadians.

Prior to joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Tremblay held the position of Executive Vice-President at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) from 1989−1998.

Mr. Tremblay holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Concordia University (1976). He pursued graduate business studies at École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) Montréal and at the University of Ottawa. He obtained the Chartered Director (C.Dir.) designation from The Directors College (a joint venture of McMaster University and the Conference Board of Canada) in 2012.

(Michel Tremblay resigned from the Corporation in June 2012.)

Roula Zaarour
Vice-President, People and Culture

Roula Zaarour was appointed CBC/Radio-Canada’s Vice-President, People and Culture, on December 1, 2011.

Ms. Zaarour is responsible for delivering the Corporation’s human resources services and ensuring a positive relationship between management and employees. She helps lead the “people” component of the Corporation’s five-year strategic plan, Strategy 2015, ensuring that CBC/Radio-Canada is a rewarding, progressive and diverse workplace that builds professional teams of innovative and highly skilled people dedicated to accomplishing
the plan.

Before coming to CBC/Radio-Canada, Ms. Zaarour was Vice-President of Business Transformation at the Argentinean airline Aerolineas Argentinas, a company of around 10,000 employees. There, she led the implementation of their transformation plan based on their five-year business strategy following a full re-nationalization of the airline. Prior to that, Ms. Zaarour was Senior Consultant at MatlinPatterson Global Advisors LLC, a private equity firm specialized in distressed investments. In this role, she developed and led the execution of the restructuring plans for investments in the aviation sector in the U.S. and South America. She was heavily involved in industrial relations with various governmental and unionized stakeholders.

Ms. Zaarour earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She then moved to Boston where she pursued her M.Sc. in Engineering Management at Northeastern University, and then to Montreal where she completed an MBA at Concordia University.