Until 2024, André Beaulieu (he/his) held a variety of management positions at Bell Canada, notably, Head of Strategy and General Services Manager, comprising the Corporate Security team, Corporate Environmental Responsability and Real Estate Services, the Head of Procurement and the Value Creation team. He was also President of BCE Nexxia, who owns the Bell network in the United States and of Wholesale Services – a business unit generating revenues of over $1 billion through a canadian and international sales force serving more than 700 telecommunications companies in 180 countries.
Before joining Bell, André held various management positions with Bain & Company in Boston and Paris, and at A.T. Kearney in Paris and Monitor Group in Toronto. André has also worked with the Privy Council Office of the Government of Canada and with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
Born in Rimouski, André received both his BA (Honours) and his B.C.L/LL.B from Montréal’s McGill University. An active member of the community, he is the former Chair of Equitas’ Board of Directors and the current Chair of the Public Policy Forum. He also sits on the Board of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation and Azrieli Foundation. He is co-founder of the Banff Forum.
I feel privileged to part the Board of Directors. It assembles amazing talents from different fields and part of the country and is a vital part of Equitas’ success. I try to and I hope to bring some management experience and strategic insight to our deliberations. The human rights area that speaks to me the most is LGBTQ2I rights but at the moment, we also discover the massive amount of work that is still required on reconciliation and indigenous rights.