Francois Dufresne

François Dufresne joined Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) as a Senior Director, Private Equity in 2016. From 2013 to 2015, he was Vice President Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer at Ovivo Inc., a Montréal-based company listed on the TSX that designs and delivers conventional to highly technological water treatment solutions for the industrial and municipal markets around the world. From 2002 to 2013, Mr. Dufresne was a Partner at EY in Canada. From 1997 to 2002, he was Vice-President Corporate Development at Telesystem International Wireless Inc., a Montréal-based company listed on NASDAQ that operated wireless voice and data networks in several countries around the world. Prior to that, until 1997, Mr. Dufresne spent 11 years at Arthur Andersen in Canada, the last four years as a Partner. Mr. Dufresne currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Fives SAS, a Paris-based industrial engineering group that designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for various industries. He also serves as a director of Northwest Fiber, LLC (“Ziply Fiber”), a broadband internet provider over a fiber-to-the-home network in the Pacific Northwest, based in Kirkland. Finally, he serves as a director of TeamHealth, Inc., a leading physician practice in the U.S., based in Knoxville, that offers emergency medicine, hospital medicine and others through more than 15,000 affiliated healthcare professionals.

He holds a law degree (LL.B.) from Université Laval and a master’s degree in taxation (M.Fisc.) from Université de Sherbrooke.