Board

The Board is made up of nine members. Two members are appointed by the Conseil des Ministres: the President and CEO and the Québec government representative. The remaining seven members are chosen by the Conseil de Promotion de l’Agroalimentaire Québécois (CPAQ) from candidates put forward by associations representing the following circles:

• producers
• processors
• distributors
• retailers
• certification bodies
• consumers
• producers of alcohol-containing products.

Marie-Josée Gouin
President and CEO
Conseil des Appellations Réservées et des Termes Valorisants

Jean-Pierre Potelle
Representative of Producers of alcohol-containing products
Retired winemaker and cider producer

Jean-François Philippe
Representative of certification bodies
Commercial Manager, Enregistrement CWB

Christine Jean
Representative of processors
Vice-president, Technical and Regulatory Services, Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec (CTAQ)

Jessy Vézina
Representative of retailers
Vice-president, Association des détaillants en alimentation du Québec (ADA)

Stéphanie Levasseur
Representative of agricultural producers
Second Vice-president, l’Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA)

Janick Boudreau
Representative of distributors
Food Security Director, Metro inc.

Jean-Claude Dufour
Member appointed by the Government of Québec

Expert committees

The Conseil supported by the work of a number of expert committees.

Accreditation committee

• Danielle Brault
  Retired agronomist
  Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• Carla Canales
  Food Inspector
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
  Auditor CanadaGAP
• François Décary
  Consultant
  International development Desjardins
• Julie Fréchette
  Consultant
• Stéphane Gagnon
  Senior Organizational Information Systems Consultant
  Desjardins
• Clémentine Gombart
  Agronomist

Impartiality committee

• Daniel Charbonneau
  Vice-President, Client Services
  Retraite Québec
• François Lambert
  Consultant
• Pierre Legault
  Retired lawyer
• Arouna Wabi
  Vice-President, Business Development

Surveillance committee

• Pascal Daigle
  Consultant
• Annick Demanche
  Director
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation
• Marie-Josée Gouin
  President and CEO
  Conseil des appellations réservées et de termes valorisants
• François Lambert
  Consultant
• Jean-Pierre Lévesque
  Consultant

Organic standards committee

• Danielle Brault
  Retired agronomist
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
• Daniel Dubé
  Owner-affiliate of Rachelle-Béry – Healthy grocery
• Jean Duval
  Consultant- retired agronomist
• François Labelle
  Agronomist – Organic dairy production expert
• Yveline Martin
  Agronomist
  Market garden and fruit sector consultant, organic production
• Nicolas Turgeon
  Expert Advisor – Organic division
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec

PGI-Acerum du Québec and TV-Spiritueux d’origine agricole du Québec committee

• David Bérubé
  Chemist – consultant
• Luc Bordeleau
  Chemist – consultant
• Stéphane Denis
  Strategic consultant
• Annick Mercier
  Microbiologist
  Business Area Manager – Caribbean & North America
  Distilled Spirits
• Jean-Sébastien Michel
  Owner and founder of Alambika and Jesemi Distribution

PGI-Vin du Québec and PGI-Vin de glace du Québec committee

• Benoit Beaudet
  Consultant – Trainer
  Marketing – Cost of sales & Alcohols
• Jérémie d’Hauteville
  Œnologist
• Hélène Dion
  Sommelier consultant
• Gaëlle Dubé
  Agronomist
• Édith Ducharme
  B2C marketing strategist – business consultant
• Isabelle Lafont
  Cellar master and sales
  Vignoble Les Artisans du Terroir

PGI-Cidre de glace du Québec committee

• Monique Audette
  Consultant
• Kathleen McNeil
  Consultant
• Caroline Provost
  Consultant
• Colombe St-Pierre
  Consultant

Cheese sector committee

• Dominique Arsenault
  Food processing consultant
  Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec
• Idriss Ettabaâ
  Business Development Director
  Producteurs de lait du Québec
• Martin Gilbert
  Investment Development Manager
  Promotion Saguenay
• Patrick Mundler
  Professor, Department of Agroeconomics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
  Laval University
• Réjean St-Pierre
  Agronomist
  Retired from the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec
  Partner in a dairy farm
• Carole Thibault
  Consultant in management, industrial relations and governance for the agri-food processing sector

PGI-Agneau de Charlevoix committee

• Alexandre Anctil
  Consultant
• Paul Caccia
  Consultant
• Francois Castonguay
  Consultant
• Hélène Méthot
  Consultant
• Colombe St-Pierre
  Consultant

AS-Sirop d’érable à la chaudière committee

• Sylvain Gaston
  Consultant
• Luc Lagacé
  Consultant
• David Lapointe
  Consultant
• Hélène Laurendeau
  Consultant
• Jean-Marc Lavoie
  Consultant
• Vallier Robert
  Consultant