Pierre Dion, the new President and CEO of Quebecor, will be the closing speaker at The 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday June 18. It will be his first major appearance since being named as chief of the Québec cable, media and telecom giant earlier this week.
Quebecor is a communications industry leader with subsidiaries that include: Videotron; Sun Media; TVA; Canoe Inc.; TVA Publishing; Quebecor Media Book Group; and Nurun.
For the past nine years, Mr. Dion has been the head of TVA Group within Quebecor. TVA is the largest French language network in North America, including 8 specialty services: LCN, addikTV, MOI&cie, Argent, Prise 2, CASA, YOOPA and TVA Sports. TVA Group also has interest in Canal Évasion and Sun News. A subsidiary is the largest publisher of French-language magazines in Québec and its TVA Films subsidiary distributes films and television products in Canada’s English- and French-language markets.
Earlier in his career, Pierre was VP sales and Marketing at Videoway Multimédia, a division of Le Groupe Vidéotron ltée and previously, he had been at Vidéotron Plus.
Videotron has been one of the strongest new entrant mobile wireless players to emerge from the 2008 AWS auction. The company surprised many industry observers with the geographic reach of its spectrum purchases in the most recent 700 MHz auction, acquiring licenses in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario as well as its home territory.
As the new leader of Quebecor, Mr. Dion will exert significant influence on the evolution of Canada’s telecommunications landscape. We look forward to his closing keynote address at The 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit.
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By the way, we have been advised that lawyers who need Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits are able to claim time spent attending “substantive” sessions at The 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit as “Substantive Hours” toward the Law Society’s CPD requirements.