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Mr Denis Audibert
Project Manager
Québec Automotive Partnership
Denis Audibert, business administration bachelor from Laval University, is the project manager for the Québec Automotive Partnership since Octobre 2003. In his career, he has gained over 20 years of experience in different automotive related positions. He started working for Équipements Labrie, then worked for 7 years as district manager for Michelin.
Afterwards, Denis became industrial advisor for the Government of Québec at the Transportation Equipment Division. For 7 years, he has been a key player in participating in the sector's technological and industrial development by promoting suppliers, organizing conferences and industrial visits, participating in the prime manufacturers purchasing committee and by managing important business cases such as PACCAR.
For the last 6 years, he has been working to the promotion of the best manufacturing practices, to the Centre de gestion d'équipements roulants and has been responsible of the subcontracting and metal working sectors in Québec.
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Mr François Badin
senior researcher, in charge of electric and hybrid vehicles activities at the INRETS
Situation
F. Badin, aged 46, has been researcher at the Transports and Environment Lab. (LTE) of the INRETS
since 1985 and senior researcher, in charge of electric and hybrid vehicles activities at the INRETS
since 1998 (10 pers. team). F. Badin has got a Scientific Doctorate in Environmental Engineering
from the University of Chambéry, France and a five years Engineering Degree in thermo-dynamic process
at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon France.
Domain of research
The aims of the studies I carry out at INRETS are the evaluation and optimization
of electric and hybrid drivelines.
These researches concern both experiments and simulations and are applied to the case of light duty vehicles up to buses.
Experiments are carried out on road, chassis dyno, engine test bench together with battery test bench.
Optimization of hybrid driveline are carried out on a specific high dynamic engine test bench
which associate real time simulation together with component testing in a hardware in the loop concept
(ic. engine, electric motor and batteries).
Research application
Main researches applications concern the first electric and hybrid marketed LD vehicles evaluations
(Peugeot-Citroën Ax, Toyota Prius, Nissan Tino, Honda Insight), hybrid buses evaluation and optimization,
driveline and energy management optimization.
Different electric and hybrid vehicles softwares have been realized by the team
and are now being used in the industry (Alstom, Bombardier, Lohr, EDF, RATP, PSA).
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Mr Jean Bélanger
President and R&D Director, Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
As president and R& D Director, Mr. Bélanger defines the vision and corporate direction of the company and steers its efforts in research and development.
Prior to co-founding Opal-RT in 1997, he worked at Hydro Quebec for 25 years, where he was one of the main design engineers of the 765-kV James Bay transmission system. In 1978, he led the commercialization of Hydro-Quebec's simulation services around the world, designing and promoting Hydro-Quebec's electric network simulator. Taking up an area of 10,000 ft2 and costing $14M, this unique simulation facility is still the world's largest and most sophisticated real-time large-scale electrical network simulator.
Mr. Bélanger also promoted the sale of electric network simulators. From 1993 to 1996, he designed and delivered several large-scale simulators to a number of leading companies worldwide, including Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba and EPRI (China). Subsequently, he co-founded TEQSIM, the Hydro-Quebec subsidiary dedicated to the commercialization of real-time simulation technologies.
Over the course of his distinguished career, Mr. Bélanger has actively participated in, and served as President at numerous ACE (Association Canadienne de l'Électricit�) and CIGRE (Conférence Internationale des Grands Réseaux Électriques) events. Mr. Bélanger is an electrical engineer (Laval University, Quebec) with a Masters degree in Power Systems from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.
He was recently named member of the Canadian Order of Engineers, an organization with a membership limited to only 250 persons.
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Dr. Blaise Champagne, Eng. Ph.D.
Director General, NRC Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI)
Dr. Blaise Champagne holds a Ph.D. in Materials from the University of Laval (1980),
from which he also earned a Master’s degree in Science - Ceramics (1976) and a bachelor’s
degree in science - metallurgical engineering (1974).
Dr. Champagne joined the NRC Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) in 1980 as a research associate.
He was named Group Leader - Ceramics and surface materials (1984) and Section Hand -
Metals and Ceramics (1990).
He also stayed in Tsukuba, Japan for a R & D project (1993).
He was named Director of the Process Development Section
and then promoted Director General of NRC-IMI (1999).
Dr. Champagne is currently coordinating the NRC Manufacturing Technologies Group
involving several NRC institutes and R&D centres from across Canada.
Dr. Champagne has also been selected to oversee the implementation of the new
NRC Aluminium Technology Centre (NRC-ATC) in Chicoutimi.
He represents the NRC on several committees in Canada and abroad, particularly VAMAS
(Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards).
He holds many patents and has written numerous scientific publications.
His career allowed him to develop and manage several technology transfers
within the industry and has directed multidisciplinary teams.
Dr. Champagne is a member of the following professional associations: ASM International,
American Metal Powder Industry Federation, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
and the American Foundrymen's Society.
He received the following awards and scholarships: Award for Excellence from NRC Transition Team (1996);
Recognition Award from IRAP (1994); Scholarship from Science Technology Agency in Japan (1992);
Scholarship from Ministère de l’Education du Québec (1978-1979);
Scholarship from NSERC (1974-1977); Scholarship from Office Franco-Québécois (1975);
Scholarship from Quebec Iron and Titanium inc. (1973).
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Mr. Piotr Drozdz, M.Sc.
Vice President and Founder of Azure Dynamics
creator of "smart energy management" technology
Mr. Drozdz has over 20 years experience in mechanical engineering and R&D project management.
He obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Warsaw Technical University in Warsaw Poland in 1982 and upon graduation,
worked as a research engineer, developing advanced hybrid power systems for mobile cranes and excavators.
In 1986, he moved to Canada, where he attended the Graduate School at MacMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario and worked as a structural analyst with Ortech Corporation in Mississauga, Ontario.
At Ortech he developed a novel interactive approach to hybrid powertrain simulation that has become the standard powertrain analysis tool throughout the industry.
In 1995, he joined BC Research in Vancouver, BC to lead their R&D activities in the area of hybrid electric propulsion.
In 2000, he co-founded BCR hybrid vehicle spin-off company Azure Dynamics. As the founding VP Technology Development, he managed the engineering team developing hybrid delivery van powertrain and was involved in the process of financing and taking the company public.
In 2003, he founded vePower Technologies, a technology development company, focused on products and services for advanced clean power for mobile and stationary applications. He also remains a member of the Advisory Board of Azure Dynamics.
Mr. Drozdz has been an active member of international advanced powertrain research community since 1994, wrote several technical papers on the subject of hybrid vehicle design and presented his work at major international conferences.
He holds two US patents related to hybrid vehicle energy management.
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Dr Wolfgang Faul, Managing Director of the Center of Excellence New Materials North Bavaria Ltd.
Wolfgang Faul is Managing Director of the Center of Excellence New Materials North Bavaria Ltd.,
Bayreuth, Germany ( Kompetenzzentrum Neue Materialien ).
The Center with labs and technical workshops is located at the Bavarian cities of Bayreuth,
Fürth and Würzburg, Germany. The group of four companies has been established in 2000
in the frame of the High Tech Initiative of the German Federal State of Bavaria.
Aim of the Center of Excellence is to make use of the innovation potential of new materials,
especially of innovative applications in systems such as information & communication, traffic &
transport, energy and high performance surfaces.
Therefore the activities of the Center are focused on lightweight materials, multifunctional materials,
energy and tribology & corrosion. In addition, nanomaterials and nanostructures play an important role.
The Center is working as a One-Stop-Shop - from first ideas to industrial marketable solutions.
High competence in the materials triangle Bayreuth - Fürth/Erlangen - Würzburg and the modern technical
shops with industrial like equipment at all three locations offers unique opportunities for co-operations
in industrial partnership to create materials based world-class innovations.
Additional activities at Bayreuth are the innovation forum, the know how training & transfer center,
the technology marketing and an incubator center for new start-ups.
From 1980 � 2001 Wolfgang Faul served as head of department and director of the Project Management Agency New Materials
and Chemical Technologies at the Research Center Jülich on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for
Education and Research and on behalf of several governments from German federal states.
Besides the preparation and realization of governmental supported programs and projects,
he has a broad base of experience as advisor in the field of international co-operations and as an expert in
materials technology for the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
Wolfgang Faul studied Chemical Technology in Essen, Germany and - prior to the activities
in the management business - for about ten years - he developed new processes in the field
of applied electrochemistry with the issue of more than 25 patents.
In 1986 he received the Technology Transfer Award of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology
for the industrial introduction of a novel electrochemical process for the production of printed circuit boards.
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Mr Peter Frise, P.Eng., FCAE - AUTO21 Program Leader & CEO
Peter Frise holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carleton University. He began his industrial career in Nigeria working for Schlumberger Wireline Services in Nigeria. He then moved to Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton, Ontario as a research and development engineer and later as a design group leader.
Dr. Frise is currently the Program Leader and CEO of AUTO21, a federal Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) on the Automobile of the 21st Century.
He has two patents presently pending and has written more than 35 articles in academic and professional publications. He serves on a number of boards including Professional Engineers Ontario and the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and has been an expert witness on machinery failures and workshop safety issues, as well as in trade classification matters before the federal trade tribunal.
Dr. Frise was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2000 in recognition of his professional contributions and accomplishments. In May 2001, he was elected Windsor and Essex County Engineer of the Year by the local Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario.
He lives with his wife and three daughters in Windsor, Ontario.
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Mr Raymond Gagn�
Business Development Advisor, Export Development Canada (EDC)
Work Experience
Export Development Canada: 1997 to 2003, financing professional with responsibilities to structure, negotiate and conclude large and small, commercial and sovereign financing transactions for rail and ship exports to developing and developed countries. Since 2003, responsible for business development activity for the Aerospace and Surface (rail, auto, transit) transportation sectors.
Business Development Bank of Canada: 1979 to 1997 (18 years) at Winnipeg and Ottawa branches and at the Montreal Head Office. In the branches, responsibilities consisted of developing commercial financing transactions for SMEs in all industries.
Education
MBA and B. Administration. - University of Ottawa
Family
Originally from a small town south of Winnipeg.
Married with & two daughters, both attending university.
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 Mr Denis Gingras
Director General of the Intelligent Materials and Systems Institute of Universit� de Sherbrooke - coordinator Auto21
Denis Gingras was born in Quebec City, Canada. Having studied at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1978-1979, he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Universit� Laval in 1980 and 1984 respectively, and his Dr. Eng., in 1989, from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, all in electrical engineering. In 1980, he worked as Assistant Engineer at the BOSCH Research Center in Stuttgart, Germany, on dynamic control systems for electrical vehicle applications. From 1981 to 1982, he worked as Analyst in computer graphics and image processing at the Computing Services, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and in CAD systems at Northern Telecom in Montreal.
From 1982 to 1984, he studied in signal processing and data analysis applied to the frequency stability problem of hydrogen masers at Universit� Laval. From 1984 to 1988, he was Ph.D. candidate and Assistant Professor at Ruhr Universität Bochum, in Germany, leading a research team working in IR multispectral imaging and parametric FT-IR spectrometry. Awarded a Science and Technology Agency fellowship, he was, from 1989 to 1990, guest researcher at the Communication Research Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, working in image reconstruction and restoration applied to infrared speckle images. From 1990 to 1999, he founded and directed the Digital and Optical Systems Department at INO in Quebec City, Canada. In 1999 also, he was Guest Professor at INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Since January 2000, Dr. Gingras is Director General of IMSI (Intelligent Materials and Systems Institute) and Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Universit� de Sherbrooke.
Dr. Gingras has published two books and has authored and co-authored more than sixty-nine publications. His research interests cover fields in intelligent systems, information processing as well as optical and digital implementation of imaging systems. Dr. Gingras acts as theme leader in the AUTO21 NCE. He his also a member of several professional associations such as IEEE and OIQ.
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Mr Paul Goossens
Vice President, Marketing, Opal-RT-Technologies inc.
As Vice President Marketing, Mr. Goossens is responsible for developing and implementing effective marketing strategies that promote Opal-RT and its products on a global scale. He brings to the company over twenty years of experience in successful development, marketing and sales of software and hardware solutions for many engineering markets.
He received a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1985 and worked for ten years in the UK as a consultant and software developer for many engineering applications - including dynamic systems analysis and design tools, control systems development and hardware-in-the-loop testing - before turning his entrepreneurial flair towards sales and marketing of off-the-shelf computational tools for technical applicatons. He has developed marketing and sales strategies for numerous new products in North America, the UK and Europe, many of which are now market leaders.
In 1998 he moved to Canada, where he became a senior marketing manager for Waterloo Maple Inc, developers of one of the most advanced symbolic mathematics products in the world, before joining Opal-RT in January 2001.
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Dr Jacques Goyette
Director of the department of physics, UQTR
Jacques Goyette was born in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, QC, Canada, on April 13, 1952.
He received a B. S. degree in physics from Universit� du Québec � Trois-Rivières (UQTR),
in 1975, and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1986.
He has held several different positions at UQTR. From 1986 to 1991, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow
and a Research Fellow with the dielectric research group of the Physics Department of UQTR.
Since then, he has been Professor with the same department.
He is presently associated with the Institut de recherch� sur l’hydrogène of UQTR.
He is working on different issues related to the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier,
mainly the storage of hydrogen in metal hydrides and the development of ultrasonic
non-destructive evaluation methods that can be used to inspect hydrogen reservoirs.
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 Mr Gilles Gravel
President & General Manager of AMETVS
Gilles Gravel is originally from Chicoutimi, but has been very active professionally and voluntarily in many regions of Quebec. He started his career with Québec Téléphone where he occupied various engineering positions including Regional Manager for the region of Quebec.
In 1981, Mr. Gravel joined Microtel in Vancouver. He filled several challenging positions such as Project Manager (national and international) for the Microtel Vancouver offices and Regional Manager in Ottawa where he was responsible for relations with the government and the Canadian defense.
In 1988, he joined a company specializing in military vehicles, Mil-Quip inc. as Vice-president of sales and marketing. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Gravel has been at the head of companies active in the manufacturing of vans, armored vehicles, ambulances and trucks for emergency services in the public safety sector. Since 2000, he has been President - General Manager of the AMETVS.
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Mr William Johnson
Director of ITS Canada
Dr. Johnson is Canadian. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and in Transportation Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He worked at the Greater London Council in London, England for 5 years and then at Transport Canada in Ottawa and Montreal in research and development for 27 years.
He is now retired from Transport Canada but continues to work on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) projects as a Director of ITS Canada, Chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee for ISO Technical Committee 204, Member of the TRB Committee for ITS, Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Coordinator for the Canadian ATLANTIC Project.
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 Mr Yves Lasnier
President of Indev inc.
Yves Lasnier has more than 25 years of experience in prospecting, developing, managing, evaluating industrial projects. He mainly acquired his experience in the automotive industry, manufacturing, energy sector and financial world. He developed an expertise in analysing the fundamental factors and evaluating the project profitability. He realized also several projects and studies in the following sectors : production and transformation of primary metals, manufacturing sector including automotive parts manufacturing, food, biotechnology and pulp and paper industries.
Yves Lasnier holds a master degree in business administration in international business development, from Washington International University (2000) and a bachelor degree in chemical engineering from École Polytechnique (University of Montreal - 1976). In addition, Yves Lasnier had followed several training sessions in project management and financing, international affairs, market development, business structures and intellectual property, negotiations, manufacturing processes, production control, personnel management, etc.
Mr. Lasnier has built-up his business development experience through local and international project and studies. He organised the Quebec Auto Partnership and was its first president. He also hold position as vice-president for SGF Transport and SGF Mineral. His experience includes technical and strategic positions for industrial companies such as General Motors, ABB, Gaz Metropolitain and Sandwell Consultant.
During the course of his training, responsibilities and accomplishments, Mr. Lasnier developed abilities in structuring partnerships, industrial marketing, negotiation and market development.
At present, Yves Lasnier offers his services for Industrial Development activities and operates under the name of Indev.
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 Mr Pierre Lavallée
General Manager of the Centre for Electric Vehicle Experimentation in Quebec (CEVEQ)
Pierre Lavallée has served as General Director of the Centre for Electric Vehicle Experimentation in Quebec since its founding in 1996. Among other projects, he has headed the Electric Vehicle Project: Montreal 2000 and Projet Écoparcs. He is one of the originators and organizers of the International Forums on Urban Mobility and Advanced Transportation, an annual event that is held alternatively in France and Quebec. The third edition, MUTA 2004, will take place September 15 to 18 in Mont Tremblant.
Mr. Lavallée sits on several working committees related to advanced transportation in Europe and Canada. He is currently acting executive director of the Canadian Electric Vehicle Association.
A graduate in communications, Pierre Lavallée has also spent 15 years working as a journalist and economic analyst.
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Mr Pierre Martin
Research Scientist, Materials Technology Laboratory, CANMET
Graduated with a Batchelor degree in Metallurgy in 1983 from École
Polytechnique of Montréal. He then obtained a M. Sc. A. in 1985, and a
Ph.D. in 1988 from the same institution. From 1987 to 1988, he worked as
research scientist at Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble, France.
He was post doctoral fellow at Research Institute of Hydro Québec (IREQ) and
Ecole Polytechnique from 1988 to 1989. He worked as research associate at
École Polytechnique of Montréal on fracture mechanism and failure analysis.
In 1989 he joined CANMET as research scientist. He is currently the lead
research scientist in sheet metal forming at CANMET. His research interest
includes Al and steel sheet metal forming and processing, elevated
temperature deformation of light metals, tube making and welding of tubes
for hydroforming, and galvanizing of steel sheet. He has worked on many
applications for light metals and high-strength steels in the automotive
industry.
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Mr Jean Meredith
General Manager of Raufoss Automotive Components Canada
General Manager of Raufoss Automotive Components Canada, Jean Meredith majored in Business administration
and has acquired 20 years of experience in manufacturing management.
Since 2001, he has been working for a Norwegian company as chief project manager for
the implementation and start-up of a new plant in Québec.
In the past, he has participated in other plant start-ups in Mexico working as
Production /Maintenance Director.
Mr. Meredith has spent the last six years studying and implementing different
manufacturing principles better known in Japanese plants such as TPM, 5S and total
productive maintenance.
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Mr Henry E. (Jim) Moore
Director of Research and Development, Decoma International
Jim Moore is the Director of Research and Development with Decoma International and brings with him more than 25 years of experience in the plastics industry. A professional engineer, he started his career with the General Motors Parts Fabrication Group in Oshawa, Ontario and progressed through various roles within their thermoplastic injection molding and reaction injection molding fascia divisions.
Jim joined Decoma in 1995 to lead the development of a new fascia manufacturing facility. Decoma International is a leading supplier of automotive exterior trim components. Decoma is aggressively pursuing innovative material and process technologies to move into new markets. The use of thermoplastic and thermoset based composites presents future product opportunities for Decoma.
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Mr Erech Morrison
Team Leader, Investment, and Senior Sector Development Officer
Aerospace and Automotive Branch, Industry Canada
- Graduate Concordia - Commerce, finance
- 25 years with Industry Canada - 15 years in automotive (Japan, Germany, Italy, France), 10 years railway sector (Africa). Investment, international trade, R&D expansion for auto sector.
- Responsible for strategy formation and action plan/work program, economic analyses, preparation of detailed proposals to potential investors. Involved in policy development and auto sector strategy, and directly involved in investment projects for Toyota, Honda, Ford, DaimlerChrysler and dozens of auto parts sector projects.
- 15 years with Canadian Pacific in a variety of analyses.
- Hobbies: dancer and accordionist for Upper Bavarian and Tyrolean folk music.
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Dr Josef Nassauer
Executive head, Bayern Innovativ
From 1969 to 1974 Josef Nassauer studied mechanical and process engineering at the Technical University
Munich. From 1974 until 1986, Josef Nassauer worked as Research Programme Leader at the Technical
University Munich. In 1978, Josef Nassauer received his Ph.D. in food-technology. His thesis and postgraduate
work at the Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan was concentrated on residence-time
distribution in heat exchanging systems and adsorption of molecules and micro-organisms on surfaces and
membranes. In the beginning of 1986 Josef Nassauer received post-doctoral lecturing qualification in foodprocess
engineering.
Later in 1986, Josef Nassauer joined the Kraft-Jacobs-Suchard-Group as a Group Research Director in the
European Research and Development Centre in Munich until 1995. His responsibility was the development
of novel processes and the worldwide coordination of strategical process engineering projects between
plants in USA, Europe and Australia.
In 1992 Josef Nassauer was awarded with the Philip-Morris-Chairman’s-Award in New York for a novel ultrafiltration
system which was developed, worldwide patented and implemented at full plant scale. From 1992
until 1995 Josef Nassauer was member of the Executive Committee of Leatherhead (FDRA), England.
In 1995 Josef Nassauer accepted the position as chief executive of the Bayern Innovativ Ltd. Nuremberg
Established by the Free State of Bavaria as a corporation for innovation and technology transfer, science
and industry in 1995 in Nuremberg. The main objectives are to intensify technology transfer between science
and industry as well as to enhance technology orientated cooperations across branches. Thereby, its work is
focused on 10 future-orientated technologies and 10 branches important for Bavaria’s economy.
Since 1989, beside his extensive business involvement, Josef Nassauer also gives lectures at the
Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan on technical innovation management with special
emphasis on food industry. Josef Nassauer was nominated honorary professor by the Technical
University Munich in December 1997.
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Mr Peter DiPaolo
Technology Manager and Semiconductor Analyst, Semiconductor Insights
Peter DiPaolo is a Technology Manager and Semiconductor Analyst at Semiconductor Insights (SI).
Peter has spent the last few years at SI involved in projects related to non-volatile memory,
automotive semiconductors, smart cards, image sensors and various wireless technologies.
Prior to SI, he worked within the Automotive and Health sectors in project management
and systems analysis.
Peter holds a degree from Queen's University, Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering.
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Ms Chantale Perreault
Director of R & D for the Composites Development Center of Quebec (CDCQ).
Director of R&D for the Composites Development Center of Quebec (CDCQ) since 2001,
Mrs. Chantale Perreault has a degree in science (chemistry) from the University of Sherbrooke
and has accumulated over twenty years of experience in the composite materials sector.
Member of the Quebec Order of Chemists and of the SAMPE
(Society for the advancement of materials and process engineering),
Mrs. Perreault has contributed to numerous development projects throughout her career.
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Sandra Perron
Worldwide Purchasing Quebec
General Motors of Canada.
Sandra Perron is currently the World Wide Purchasing Manager - Quebec, with General Motors of Canada.
She was previously Supplier Quality Manager for the Ste Therese Assembly Plant, and has been with General Motors for the last five years.
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Ysabelle Poulin
Industrial Advisor
Québec Automotive Partnership
Ysabelle Poulin started her studies in business administration at Laval University in Québec and ended up finishing them in Kingston, attending Queen's University. She got her Master's degree (MSc) in production and operations management at the HEC in Montreal. Her thesis allowed her to explore one of today's subjects of interest, time cycle reduction in new product development.
Ysabelle began her career in the private sector working for well-known companies like Kraft Canada, Nortel Networks and Mitec Telecom. All her experiences allowed her to gather knowledge and expertise in new product introduction, production planning, process analysis and MRP systems implementation.
In September of 2002, she decided to come back to Québec and chose to work for the ministère du Développement économique et régional et de la Recherche. She is currently the industrial advisor for the Québec Automotive Partnership.
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Mr Serge Roy
Project manager , IndusTech inc.
Mr. Roy obtained a B.Sc with Honours in Physics from the Universit� du Québec � Montréal in 1973, and a certificate in Meteorology from the same university in 1974.
Mr. Roy started his career as a Meteorologist with Environment Canada in 1973, specializing in air pollutants diffusion.
Mr. Roy joined Hydro-Québec in 1975 where he has held various managerial positions. He has been active in the electric transportation sector at Hydro-Québec since 1994.
Since November 2002, he is Director � Energy Systems for Electric Vehicles at IndusTech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québec. He is responsible for the development of an integrated propulsion system for EVs using an electric drivetrain from TM4, a subsidiary of IndusTech, with a Lithium-Metal-Polymer battery from Avestor, jointly owned by Hydro-Québec and Kerr-McGee. This development is conducted in partnership with car manufacturers: the first partnership is with SVE, a French consortium of Dassault and Heuliez groups.
He is a member of the Board of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA), based in Washington DC. He is Chair of the EV Association of Canada (EVAC), based in Ottawa.
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Dr Nigel Steward
Director of Research for Alcan Primary Metal Group
Dr. Steward is the Director of Research for Alcan Primary Metal Group.
He holds a BSc(eng) in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Imperial College, London, UK.
He also has a PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College, and is an Associate of the Royal School of Mines.
Dr. Steward has worked for Alcan for 14 years holding various positions in the fields of R&D, Environment, and Environment
and Technical Management both in Europe and in Canada.
Dr. Steward started his career with Alcan in corporate R&D at Alcan’s Banbury laboratories in the UK.
After 5 years, he was transferred to Alcan’s R&D laboratory in Jonquière, Québec.
In 1998, he was appointed technical manager at Alcan’s Kitimat Smelter in British Columbia,
and was later made Manager of Environment and Technical Services.
After holding the position of Director of Environment for North American smelters,
Dr.Steward was nominated, in April 2002, for the Alcan Primary Metal Group,
Director of Research, in Technology and Engineering.
Since January 2004, he is holding the position of Director,
Fabricated Products, for the Regional Industrial Development Group.
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Mr Ronald C. (Ron) Watkins
Director General of the Aerospace and Automotive Branch of Industry Canada
Mr. Watkins is the Director General of the Aerospace and Automotive Branch of Industry Canada. This branch was created in July 2000 as a merger of the department’s Aerospace and Defence Branch, which Mr. Watkins headed, and the Automotive and Transportation Industries Branch. This new branch is responsible for policies to improve the growth and international competitiveness of the Canadian aerospace, automotive, and related industries, through trade, technology, and investment-related initiatives. It is also the focal point for the government’s industrial and regional benefits policies related to government procurement.
Previously, Mr. Watkins was Director General of the International Business Branch of Industry Canada, responsible for developing the department’s overall strategies and annual plans for trade promotion and investment attraction in Canada. The branch also led the department’s international trade, investment, and technology policies for the industrial and service industries. This included primary departmental responsibilities related to the WTO, NAFTA, APEC, and other bilateral trade and industrial cooperation arrangements.
Mr. Watkins has also headed the department’s branches responsible for the information technologies and service industries. In addition to his extensive management experience in the Canadian government, he also participated for two years in an executive exchange program with IBM, serving as Program Director in its corporate strategy department at Armonk, N.Y.
Mr. Watkins has a M.A. in economics, and has completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Watkins and his wife Kathy live in Ottawa with their son (Charles) and daughter (Amy).
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