Charles-Alexandre Vennat

President & CEO at CMI Mulching

Charles-Alexandre Vennat is currently serving as the President & CEO of CMI Mulching since January 2024. Prior to this role, he was the President & CEO of Greentone from May 2022 to August 2023. With an extensive background in various leadership positions, including Chief Executive Officer and Chief Corporate Officer at 48North, Charles-Alexandre Vennat has a strong business acumen. He also served as the President of Bastos of Canada from July 2013 to August 2019. Charles-Alexandre Vennat holds a MA (Hons) in Business Studies and Economics from The University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Concordia University.

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Montréal, Canada

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CMI Mulching

COMPANY HISTORY In the late 1990's, Daniel Gosselin had a need for mulching and land clearing equipment for land reclamation on farmland in Southeastern Quebec. After extensive research, Daniel settled on a carrier he felt was the best for his needs. After importing the carrier, different problems arose while trying to adapt the crawler to his specific needs. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, Daniel decided to modify the machine and improve its land clearing performances. Proud of the modifications, he decides to take the machine to Western Canada during the winter months, where the mulcher is in great demand for oil and gas exploration. Quickly, his equipment is recognized as an improvement on what is presently offered in the market place…and he is offered to sell his land clearing tracked mulcher. Instead of selling his machine, he offers to build a forestry mulcher… From this opportunity, a new line of purpose built mulchers called C.M.I. was born.