President and CEO
Montreal
Hubert T. Lacroix
President and CEO
Montreal
Hubert T. Lacroix was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on November 5, 2007, for a five-year term. He began his mandate on January 1, 2008. On October 5, 2012, he was reappointed for a second five-year term.
As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/RadioCanada to ensure that Canada's national public broadcaster can deliver on the various aspects of its mandate and continue to offer Canadians a broad spectrum of high quality programming that informs, enlightens and entertains, and that is created by, for and about Canadians.
Just before joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice. Prior to this, Mr. Lacroix was Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation and of the other Boards of Directors of the various companies in the Telemedia corporate structure. Before joining Telemedia, he was a Senior Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, a major Canadian law firm.
Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master's degree in Business Administration (1981) from McGill University. He has been a member of the Bar since 1977.
In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company.
