Team and Board of Directors
Paulette Kaci, Executive Director
Improving individual skills and organization performance motivates this great manager with more than 20 years’ management experience. Her curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit have often led her to choose challenges within start-up or restructuring organizations.
In 2011, Paulette was appointed by Cégep Marie Victorin as the first Vestechpro Director General. As soon as the organization was established, she surrounded herself with a solid team of professionals from the fashion and apparel industry. Paulette was quickly able to position Vestechpro as an essential research center for the Quebec apparel industry and help it expand across the country and elsewhere in the world.
Having received a master’s degree in education from Université de Sherbrooke, her mission has been to establish Vestechpro as a leader in the technology transfer field applied to the apparel industry.
Audrey Coulombe, Technical Project Manager
Audrey is a graduate of the Fashion Design program at Cégep Marie-Victorin, and has developed skills in design, tailoring, and pattern development over the past few years. She is very curious by nature and has subsequently developed a passion for technological innovations and clothing.
In particular, Audrey is interested in the integration of electronics in clothing and textiles, programming and 3D printing. She mainly works in the Center's laboratories where she assembles prototypes, conducts research, and performs tests in order to find solutions to the problems encountered.
Her youth, innovative spirit, and continual quest for new learning bring a breath of fresh air to the team.
Our Board of Directors
- Louis Gendron
Chair
General Director, Cégep Marie-Victorin
- Mehdi Ben Salah
Administrator
Director, Research & Development, Logistik Unicorp
- Regina De Amorim Rieh
Administrator
CEO, Maison Marie Saint Pierre
- Katherine Gervais
Administrator
Teacher in Fashion Marketing, Cégep Marie-Victorin
- Bianca Jensen
Administrator
Technical group Manager, RW & Co. Reitmans (Canada) Ltée
- Nicolas Pajot
Administrator
Founding Director and President, Studio Ultraciné
- Daniel Poirier
Administrator
Vice President, Research & Development, Life Trend
- Evna Sévigny
Administrator
Supply and Production Manager, Spark Factory
- Karen Tagliani
Administrator
Vice President of Design, Groupe Lamour
Researchers, teachers, and industry professionals: a network of experts
Vestechpro profits from a large network of experts from all industries, who regularly collaborate on customer projects. Whether teachers at the Cégep Marie-Victorin Fashion School, researchers from partner universities, or other CCTTs, these collaborations are at the service of Vestechpro's client companies. The clothing industry is increasingly working with related industries: electronics, healthcare, new technologies... these resources create a pool of knowledge and know-how that is among the most diversified and progressive to energize Vestechpro customers’ innovative projects.
