Charles Dumont

Mr. Dumont has served as Vice-President of Power Corporation since 2021. In his role, he advises and supports the Corporation and its group companies on matters related to strategy and transformation.

Before joining Power Corporation, Mr. Dumont was Head of Digital Sales and Marketing for Cirque du Soleil, where he led Cirque’s digital transformation with its private equity owners. Prior to this, Mr. Dumont founded SensorFocus, a startup in the cloud data and analytics space. SensorFocus was sold to Cirque du Soleil in 2018. Before that, he spent 8 years at McKinsey and Company serving leading global companies in the Financial Services, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Dumont worked at Plainfield Asset Management, a New York–based special situations hedge fund, as a Senior Vice-President covering the energy sector.

Mr. Dumont holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Université Laval, as well as a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).