Business

Maryse Bertrand, BCL’80, the new chair of McGill’s Board of Governors, brings a varied legal and corporate background to the role. She will climb a mountain for a good cause (and we mean that literally).

Éric Lachance, BCom’96, might not be the sort of charismatic extrovert that we typically associate with the role of CEO, but the McGill alum who heads the Quebec energy giant Énergir insists there is more than one approach to effective leadership. He is putting that to the test as he leads his company on a greener path forward.

Werkliv founder Daniel Goodfellow, BSc’07, is a real estate developer with a very specific focus – student housing. He is out to make a profit, but he is also committed to an approach that emphasizes reasonable rents and sustainable practices.

Frédéric Aubé, BA’21, remembers what it's like to struggle with a bulky couch on a steep staircase on moving day in Montreal. It's one of the reasons he started Cozey, Canada’s first sofa-in-a-box e-commerce company.

On his first day as a student at McGill’s Faculty of Education, Philip Cutler, BEd’13, demonstrated his entrepreneurial streak. He asked his classmates if they’d give him a cut for every student he found for them to tutor. Now his company Paper, which he co-founded with Roberto Cipriani, BSc’08, is one of the largest tutoring services in the […]

Dan Park, BCom’03, and his team at Clutch plan to make it as easy to buy a used car as it is to order a pizza online. And in the process, they want to disrupt an industry known for its old-fashioned and sometimes dodgy ways.

It all started with a student who wanted to sublet his apartment in the McGill Ghetto. It grew into a business that is valued at more than $1 billion. Meet Francis Davidson, the former McGill student who co-founded Sonder.