EMERGING MANAGER DAY

Mario Therrien

Senior Vice-President, External portfolio management, public markets – Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

Mario Therrien oversees the team responsible for investments in external hedge funds and public equity funds, in addition to applying an integrated management approach to the Growth Markets mandate. His mandate consists of adding value by building portfolios with the best external managers, while improving CDPQ’s in-house management through the sharing of knowledge and expertise.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in finance from Université de Sherbrooke. He has also completed the securities course given by the Canadian Securities Institute, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute. Mr. Therrien is a member of the Montreal CFA Society and a Trustee of the Hedge Fund Standard Board (HFSB). The HFSB consists of investors and managers who act as custodians of the best practice standards for the hedge fund industry, as published by the Hedge Fund Working Group in 2008.

Xavier Lépine

Chairman of the board – La Française Group

Xavier Lépine has a postgraduate degree in Economics and International Finance from Université Paris IX Dauphine. He began his career in 1983 at Société Générale before joining the International Division at Banque de l’Union Européenne. In 1999, he becomes Chairman of the Board of Multifonds, which later became UFG IM, then of Alteram (2001) and Nord Europre Private Equity (2004).
In 2006, Xavier was appointed Chairman of the Board of UFG Group, which brought together all of CMNE’s asset management subsidiaries.
In 2009, Xavier announced the merger with La française des Placements, creating the new group UFG-LFP, later La Française Group.