Our Team

Our success depends on committed individuals who share the same passion for the protection of one of our city’s most precious landscapes. This stands true for our Board of Directors, governors and employees.

Since its creation in 1986, Les Amis de la montagne has drawn its strength, expertise and influence from its Board of Directors. Hailing from academia, philanthropic foundations and the corporate world, its committed members steer our course and help advance our mission to protect and improve the exceptional space known as Mount Royal.
 

Officers

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

PRESIDENT

​President, Montorsan Holdings

 

Jeffrey Drummond

VICE-PRESIDENT 

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and M&A, Cofomo

 

Sébastien Perron-Carle

TREASURER

Director, Global Investment Banking, Scotia Capital Inc.

 

Michel Cantin

SECRETARY

Partner, Bélanger Sauvé

 

Administrators

 

Guy Breton, C.M., O.Q., M.C.

Rector Emeritus, Université de Montréal
 

Clément Demers

Architect and Urban Planner
 

Richard M. Hart

Investment Advisor, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier


Patrick Kenniff

President, Kenniff Leadership
 

Carole Labelle Molson

Corporate Director
 

Julie Laurence

Vice President, Legal - Consumer at Rogers Communications
 

Rachel Léger

Manager, Biologist
 

David Mérineau

Vice-President, Mergers & Acquisitions, CGI
 

Diana Ferrara Scalia

Stragetic Advisor, Gestion Samcon Inc.
 

Robert Tellier

Portfolio Manager
 

Patrick Tobin

Vice President, Business Development, Rio Tinto
 

Marie-Odile Trépanier

Honorary Professor, Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal
 

Marie-Josée Vaillancourt

Assistant Executive Director, Entremise
 

Peter Vamos

Executive Director, Portage

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO  

Executive Director, Les amis de la montagne

Officers

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M. 

PRESIDENT

President, Montorsan Holdings

 

Joanne Lalumière

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Secretary-Treasurer, Café des Amis

 

Directors

 

Robert A. Callard

Restaurateur​​​

 

Michel Cantin

Partner, Bélanger Sauvé

 

Clément Demers

Architect and Urban Planner

 

Joyce Shanks

Event Organizer

 

Hélène Panaïoti 

EX OFFICIO

Executive Director, Les Amis de la montagne

 

Officers

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M. 

PRESIDENT

President, Montorsan Holdings

 

Michel Devoy

TREASURER

Manager, Landscape Architect

 

Sylvie Guilbault

SECRÉTAIRE

Coordinator, Coalition des Montérégiennes

 

Directors

 

Alexandre Beaudoin, Ind. ESD, Biologist

Biodiversity Consultant

Unité du développement durable

Vice-rectorat aux finances et aux infrastructures

Université de Montréal

 

Hélène Panaïoti 

EX OFFICIO

Executive Director, Les Amis de la montagne

Governance

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

CO-CHAIR  

 

Patrick Kenniff

CO-CHAIR  

 

Julie Laurence

 

Rachel Léger

 

Patrick Tobin

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO

 

Strategic Orientations And Communications

 

Philippe Beauregard

 

Michel Devoy

 

Fiona Hirst

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

 

Patrick Kenniff

 

Carole Labelle Molson

 

Olivier Lapierre

 

Rachel Léger

 

Jean Paré

 

Marie-Josée Vaillancourt

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO  

 

Properties And Preservation

 

Mehdi Ghafouri

CO-CHAIR  

 

Marie-Odile Trépanier

CO-CHAIR  

 

Alexandre Beaudoin

 

Dinu Bumbaru, C.M.

 

Daniel Chartier

 

Clément Demers

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

 

Pierre Valiquette

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO  

 

Finances

 

Sébastien Perron-Carle

CHAIR

 

Ben Belec

 

Michel Devoy

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

 

Joanne Lalumière

 

David Mérineau

 

Thomas Williams

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO  

 

Roberta Franske

ADVISOR

Philip Belec

CO-PRESIDENT  

 

Jeffrey Drummond

 

Diana Ferrara Scalia

 

Peter A. Howlett, C.M.

 

Kathryn Lund Drummond

 

Françoise E. Lyon

 

Érik Moisan

 

Robert Tellier

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EX OFFICIO  

Les amis de la montagne is fortunate to include many prominent men and women from foundations and corporations as our governors. We owe much of our success to the commitment and generosity of these individuals who share our concerns and support our mission.
 

GOVERNORS EMERITUS

Arthur Bruneau†
Marcel Côté†
Michael Graff
Cécile Grenier
Antoine Paré, c.r.†
Lorne Webster†
 

HONORARY MEMBERS

Charles E. Beveridge
Witold Rybczynski
 

GOVERNORS

Abe Adham
Ian Aitken
Robert Alain
Sami Antaki
Karin Austin
Dr Douglas Avrith
Jean-Claude Bachand
Raymond Bachand
Alexandre Beaudoin
Guy G. Beaudry
Philippe Beauregard
Benjamin Belec
Philip Belec
Jacques Bellefeuille
Hélène Bellefeuille
Jacques Bénard
Laurent N. Benarrous
Jean-Yves Benoit
Christiane Bergevin
Tom Berryman
Caroline Biron
Hans P. Black
David Blair †
Hubert Bolduc
Nathalie Bondil, C.M., C.Q.
The Hon. Lucien Bouchard, G.O.Q.
Bernard Bougie
Jean-Yves Bourdages
Youssef Boutros, CPA, CA
Rob Braide
Dr. Guy BRETON, C.M., O.Q., M.D.
Jean-Daniel Brisson
Tim Brodhead
Peter G. Brown
Michel Bruyère
Dinu Bumbaru, C.M.
Robert A. Callard
Michel Cantin
Brian Casey
Jonathan Cha
André Chagnon, O.C.
Daniel Chartier
Viateur Chénard
Dominique Codère
Hélène Couture
Mary Bruns Creighton
Alain Creton
Jonathan Deitcher
Charles de Kovachich
Clément Demers
Julien Deschênes
André Desmarais, O.C., O.Q.
Hélène Desmarais, C.M
Paul Desmarais Jr., O.C.
Michel Devoy
Ugo Dionne
Frank Di Tomaso
Marianne Donaldson
Jacques Dorais
Paule Doré

Jeffrey Drummond
Barbara Drury
Serge Dubreuil
Nancy H. Dunton
Michel Famelart
Deborah Fang
Lucy A. Fellowes
Diana Ferrara Scalia
Robert Fortier, CPA, CA
Suzanne Fortier
Yves L. Fortier, C.C., O.Q.
Carolina Gallo La Flèche
Michel Gariépy
Robert Gervais
Mehdi Ghafouri
Julie Godin
Robert P. Godin
Wendy Graham
Daniel Granger, C.M., MBA, ARP, FSCRP
Réjean Gravel
Père Claude Grou, c.s.c.
Sylvie Guilbault
Christine Harkness Lapointe
Richard M. Hart
Dave Harvey
Fiona Hirst
Gerald T. Hogan
Marja Hogan
Marie-Claire Holland
Jane Howlett
Morag Howlett
Peter A. Howlett, C.M.
Stephen Huddart
Isabelle Hudon
Jill Hugessen
Emilio B. Imbriglio
Jay Iversen
Peter Jacobs
Michèle Jodoin
Edward J. Johnson
Daniel Jutras 
Judith Kavanagh
​Karen Khalil
Robert Keaton
Patrick Kenniff
Andrew Koenig
Yvonne Koenig
Claire Kruyt
Carole Labelle Molson
Annick Laberge
Luc Lacharité
Éric R. La Flèche
Joanne Lalumière
Yves Lalumière
Phyllis B. Lambert, C.C. G.O.Q., FRAIC, FSRC, RCA
Danielle Landry
David M. Lank, C.M.
Marc Laperrière
Olivier Lapierre
The Hon. Charles Lapointe, P.C.
Pierre Lapointe
Julie Laurence
François Laurin
Jean Laurin
Michel Leblanc
Rachel Léger
Louise Letocha
Eliot Lifson
Kathryn Lund Drummond
Françoise E. Lyon
Fouad Mansour
Christine Marchildon
Me Bruce McNiven, C.M.
Gloria Ménard
Donna Mergler
David Mérineau

Tony Meti
Brett Miller
Alain Miquelon
Érik Moisan
Pierre Monahan
François Morin
Éric Morisset, CA
Laurent Morisset
Louis Morisset
Gwen Andrews Nacos
Philip M. O’Brien, C.M.
Luc Ouimet
Jean Paré
John Parisella
Jacques Parisien
Alexander K. Paterson, O.Q.
John J. Peacock
Jan Peeters
Sébastien Perron-Carle
Guy Pinard
Richard W. Pound, O.Q., O.C.
Vincent M. Prager
Martine Primeau
Claude Quenneville
Ron Rayside
Eugene N. Riesman
Joan Robb Paterson
Joanne Rossy
François R. Roy
Louise Roy, O.Q., O.C.
Louise Roy
Normand Royal
Jean Saucier
Suzanne Sauvage
Conrad Sauvé
Lucie Sauvé
Sam Scalia
Susan Scott Evans
Herschel Segal
Marie Sénécal-Tremblay
Paul Setlakwe
Joyce Shanks
Marie Sicotte
Jane Silverstone
Pierre Simard
The Hon. Larry W. Smith, C.Q. 
Martin Spalding
Alfred Stehr
Donat Taddeo
Robert Tellier
Frances Eliot Tobin †
Patrick Tobin
Alain Tremblay
Marie-Odile Trépanier
Marie-Josée Vaillancourt
Pierre Valiquette
Peter Vamos
Ivan Velan
Thomas C. Velan
Manon Vennat, C.M.
Lillian Vineberg
Stuart Webster
Jonathan I. Wener, C.M.
Thomas Williams
Robert B. Winsor
Nathalie Zinger

Trained in environmental studies, architecture, urban planning and related fields, the core team of Les amis de la montagne is responsible for educational and outdoor recreational programs, nature conservation activities and advocacy work for the protection of the mountain. It also provides a range of services to Mount Royal Park visitors. Every year, close to 100 young people—students and recent graduates for the most part—join the team as seasonal and part-time employees to provide educational and outdoor services or work at the Café des Amis.

You can contact a member of our team by calling 514 843-8240. 


Office of the Executive Director

 

Hélène Panaïoti

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Ivana Milunovic

ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Éric Richard

SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR
 

Marie Quesnel

HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES

 

Ana Cabrera

HUMAN RESOURCES TECHNICIAN

 

Finance and Administration

 

Roberta Franske

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

 

Caroline Chenail

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER 

 

Jesus Alfonso Dubon

ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

 

Nadia Panaroni

ACCOUNTING AND ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK 

 

Dave Simard Gagnon

SYSTEM AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
 

Yassine Rehzouane

IT TECHNICIAN

 

Whitney Astles

DATABASE COORDINATOR

 

Mount Royal Park Visitor Services
 

Mathieu Gaume

DIRECTOR OF MOUNT ROYAL PARK VISITOR SERVICES
 

Iris Tahiri

HEAD OF VISITOR SERVICES AND RESERVATIONS
 

Karina Sleiman

RESERVATIONS ASSISTANT

 

Claire Sponar

INTERIM RESERVATIONS ASSISTANT 

 

Marieke Lemieux

RESERVATIONS OFFICER

Sidric Jasmin

VISITOR SERVICES AND GIFT SHOP ATTENDANT

 

Marion Becker

VISITOR SERVICES AND GIFT SHOP ATTENDANT

 

Michel Harcc-Morissette

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES HEAD 
 

Alphée Turcotte

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES LEAD
 

Titouan Letourneur

OUTDOOR ACTIVTIES TEAM LEAD

 

Roxanne Malchelosse

OUTDOOR ACTIVTIES TEAM LEAD

 

Café des Amis

 

Laetitia Aguililla Godoy

HEAD OF RESTAURANT SERVICES

 

Thélonious Martin

RESTAURANT COORDINATOR

 

Cassandra Segers

RESTAURANT COORDINATOR

 

Mohcine Amhil

MANAGER

 

Conservation and Education

 

Dylan Rawlyk

DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION

 

Marie Tremblay

HEAD OF VOLUNTEER ACTION
 

Antonin St-Jean

HEAD OF CONSERVATION SERVICES

 

Ariane Bernier

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROL LEAD

 

Pascale Bélanger-Lavallée

EXPERT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROLLER

 

Benjamin Pilon

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROLLER

 

Audrey Emond

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROLLER

 

Nelly Bechir

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROLLER

 

Lindsey Weller

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATROLLER

 

Jérôme Bernier-Brillon

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM LEAD

 

Madeleine Rouleau Dumas

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Charles Caron

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Laure Gicquiaux

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Alexandrine Bleau Quintal

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Evan Kuehnert

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Juliette Champagne

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR

 

Emily Coffey

HEAD OF EDUCATION SERVICES

 

Stéphanie Plourde Pellerin

SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAM LEAD

 

Kayla Lee Nickson

DAY CAMP LEAD AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AGENT

 

Morgane Bouyer

LEAD OF GENERAL PUBLIC PROGRAM

 

Philanthropic Development


Camille Saade-Traboulsi

STRATEGIC ADVISOR ON PHILANTHROPIC DEVELOPMENT 


Public Affairs

 

Anaïs Légaré Morasse

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

 

Jean-François Roy

URBAN PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE ADVISOR

 

Communications

 

Marie-Claude Cabana

INTERIM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
 

Patricia Hamilton

WEB COPYWRITER-TRANSLATOR
 

Manon Jarno

COMMUNICATIONS, PROJECTS ANS SPECIAL EVENTS LEAD
 

Tiphanie Lebeaupin

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
 

Charline Veyret

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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