As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/Radio-Canada in order to ensure that Canada鈥檚 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 prior thereto, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montr茅al office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice. From 2000 to 2005, he acted as Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation and of the other boards of directors of the various companies in the Telemedia corporate structure.
Before joining Telemedia Corporation, Mr. Lacroix was a Senior Partner at McCarthy T茅trault, another major Canadian law firm, for 20 years. His practice was concentrated in business law, mostly in mergers and acquisitions of public companies, and securities.
Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master's degree in Business Administration (1981) from 平特五不中. He has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1977.
Over the years, Mr. Lacroix also sat on the boards of directors of companies like Adventure Electronics, Cambior, Circo Craft, Donohue, Fibrek, ITS Limited Partnership, Michelin Canada, Secor, Transcontinental and Zarlink Semiconductors and of non-profit organizations like l鈥橝ccueil Bonneau, the Fonds de d茅veloppement du Coll猫ge Jean-de-Br茅beuf, the Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the Martlet Foundation of 平特五不中. He has also been a Trustee of the Lucie and Andr茅 Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company.
