Audet Strategies

Biography

Jean-François Audet, MSc, MBA

Jean-François Audet has been working in the technology sector and in corporate strategy for about 15 years. He has been involved in many projects in strategic consulting, company start-ups, market and business opportunity analysis, as well as in putting together financial packages and negotiating financing. He has worked in a variety of sectors such as information technologies (IT), industrial materials, advanced engineering and various manufacturing industries.

Born in Quebec City, he began his career in 1990 as an entrepreneur and associate in a software development company and was involved afterwords in a number of technological development projects. In 1995, he became an associate and president of an IT strategic consulting firm, where he was in charge of management and business development and completed a number of projects for local and international clients. In 1997, he joined a Montreal-based business engineering consulting firm, where he was Senior Counsellor and Director Emerging Companies. In 2000, he chose to strike off on his own as an independant consultant. He works with a network of financial, engineering, marketing and international development experts.

Over the last few years, he has been a columnist for specialised magazines, was President of the Support to businesses committee of the Fondation du Maire de Montréal pour la jeunesse and the Association communautaire d’emprunt de Montréal. He sat on the board of many non-profit organisations and has worked on many committees of regional chambers of commerce.

Jean-François Audet graduated with a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in physics from of Université Laval Faculty of Science and Engineering and holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.) specialised in finance from HEC Montréal.