Lucie Chabot

Director at Transat

Ms. Lucie Chabot is Chair of the Board, Chair of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Information Technology Committee and a member of the Human Resources Committee of CDMV Inc., a Canada-wide distributor of products and services dedicated to veterinarians, since 2017. Since May 2019, she is also a director and a member of the Audit Committee of Albecour Inc., a company in the aluminum smelter industry and a subsidiary of Investissement Québec.

Also since May 2019, she is a director and a member of the Audit and Governance Committee of Tourisme Montréal, a Montréal-based organization engaged in the promotion of tourism for the City of Montréal.

Ms. Chabot was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SAIL Outdoors Inc., a major Canadian retailer of sporting goods and outdoor equipment, from 2014 to 2018, and as such was responsible for the firm’s accounting and financial services, human resources and information technology. She previously served as President of Distribution Vinearius Inc., a wine accessories distributor she founded. She also worked at Intertrade Systems Inc. from 2004 to 2007 as General Manager, Operations and Managed Services, after having served as the company’s Vice President, Finance and Human Resources. For more than a decade, she was a co-shareholder of Strator Consulting Group Inc., a consulting firm in the retail, distribution and services field, whose main client was Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. In this capacity, she was involved in several accounts, such as Motovan, The Hockey Company, Chapters and Rona, which gave her a better understanding of the objectives of financial institutions, their risk analysis, the returns sought and how to structure major transactions. From 1986 to 1994, she worked as Director and Vice President, Finance, of Sports Experts Inc., the Canadian leader in sporting goods and sportswear retailing.

She began her career at Clarkson Gordon (EY) as an auditor in 1981 and joined the Provigo Group in 1984.

Ms. Chabot is a graduate of Université Laval and a member of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec. She was named to the National Honour Roll of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, ranking 11th in Canada in 1982.

Timeline

  • Director

    Current role