Executive Vice President
Marie-Hélène Primeau, awarded RBC Canadian women entrepreneur 2016, is
an approved instructor of the Business Continuity Institute. For the
last decade, she has trained hundreds of professionals in North America
and Europe (in English and French). She is also a seasoned practitioner,
with more than 15 years of experience in supporting public and private
organizations in setting up, exercising, maintaining and evaluating
their business continuity program. She lately trained and exercised VIA
Rail senior management. She also regularly speaks at conferences on the
topic of Business Continuity (Conference Board of Canada, Infonex
Ottawa, WCDM – CRT Toronto, BC Awareness Week, BCI Education Month).
Moreover, as a volunteer, to promote the art and science of business
continuity and contribute to thought leadership, she is the President of
BCI Canada Chapter, a member of the ISO Technical Committee 292 on
societal security in charge of the development of various standards
including the ISO 22301 standard on Business Continuity and a member of
the CSA Z1600 Standard Committee on Emergency and Business Continuity
Management. Her firm, Premier Continuum, established for more than 20
years, is a proud training partner of the Business Continuity Institute
since 2008. The firm also provides consulting services and a web
platform, ParaSolution, to manage business continuity, emergency and
crisis response and IT disaster recovery programs. ParaSolution was
named “Vendor to watch” in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant on Business
Continuity Management Solutions and won the BCI Americas Awards 2018 in
the innovation category.
