Board of Directors and Advisory Committees

Board of Directors

Stéphane Mailhiot

Chairman of the Board
President

Havas Montréal

Alex Lefebvre

First Vice-Chairman
Director and National Senior Partner

Rethink

Caroline Barrette

Vice-Chairman
President

Archipel

Véronik L'Heureux

Secretary-Treasurer
CEO

Starcom Canada

Linda Desrochers

Administrator
Partner and General Manager

Absolu

Luis Areas

Administrator
Vice-president, channel planning and business development, partner

CARTIER

Mario Mercier

Administrator
President

Compagnie et cie

Marie Vaillancourt

Administrator
Vice President and Managing Director, Quebec

Cossette

Dimitra Georgakis

Administrator
General Manager

Dentsu Québec

Sylvain Dufresne

Administrator
Vice-President, Chief Creative Officer

FCB Montréal

Marie-Christine Cayer

Administrator
Director and Partner, Montreal

LG2

Bobby Destounis

Administrator
President et cofounder

Panoply Média

Thomas Lecordier

President and CEO

A2C

Committees

Permanent Media Committee: Luis Areas (Cartier), Josée Otis (Cossette Média), Anne-Sophie Collins (Dialekta), Dahlia Trinh-Viet (Glassroom), Julie Laplante (Jungle Média), Doha Skaf (Spark Foundry), Alexandra Lafond (Starcom), Michèle Duchesneau (Touché!) and Marion Marchesi (Wavemaker).
Negotiation of Collective Agreements: Audrée Couture (Cartier), Stéphanie Côté (Cossette), Mélanie Bruneau (LG2) and Valérie Lapointe.
Promotion of Creative Communications Agencies’ Work: Louis Duchesne (Cossette), Stéphane Mailhiot (Havas Montréal), Julie Dubé (LG2) and Véronik L'Heureux (Starcom Canada).
Mouvement média d’ici: Luis Areas (Cartier), Anne-Sophie Collins (Dialekta), Frédéric Rondeau (Espace M) and Alexandre Simard (Omnicom Media Group).
Students’ Contests: Jean-Hugo Filion (Cossette), Philippe Goudreault (LG2), Pascal Routhier (Rethink) and Joanne Nantel.
Diversity, equity and inclusion: Luis Areas (Cartier), Hubert Makwanda (Concilium), Florence Girod (Cossette), Marème Touré (dentsu création), Kristel Dupont (Rethink), Éric Adechi and Ingrid Enriquez-Donissaint.
Outreach committee: Justine Roberge (&CO Collaborateurs Créatifs), Laurence Delwaide (Canidé), Stéphane Mailhiot (Havas Montréal) et Marilyne Lévesque (Marelle Communications).

Partner agencies

Immédia: OPC Événements (organization);
Leaders' Summit: Oxygène (organization);
A2CMieux podcast: Studio Octave (production) and Compagnie et cie (branding);
2026 promotional campaign - Idéa Awards: Compagnie et cie;
Promotional tools for Mouvement média d'ici: Cartier.

Board and Committees