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Charles Sirois | |
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| Born | (1954-05-22)May 22, 1954 (age 71) Chicoutimi,Quebec, Canada |
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| Occupation | Businessman |
| Political party | Coalition Avenir Québec |
Charles Sirois,CM CQ (born May 22, 1954) is aCanadian businessman and politician. He is the founder, controlling shareholder, chairman and CEO of Telesystem Ltd., a Canadian private equity firm. Effective from March 1, 2017, he has been the CEO and chairman of OnMobile Global Ltd, India[1]
In 2011, he co-founded (withFrançois Legault) a centre-right autonomist political party,Coalition Avenir Québec.
Born inChicoutimi,Quebec, he earned abachelor's degree in Finance fromUniversité de Sherbrooke and amaster's degree in finance fromUniversité Laval. He is the father of François-Charles Sirois and grandfather of Maxime Sirois.
Sirois has had a long career in corporate management. He is currently a director of theCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Cossette Communication Group and Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.[2] He led BCE Mobile Communications from 1988 to 1990 as its chairman and CEO. Subsequently, he was chairman and CEO of Teleglobe, the leading provider of international long-distance and broadband services in Canada. He also served as chairman of Telesystem International Wireless, and founded and was chairman of Microcell Telecommunications, a GSM cellular provider in Canada best known for its Fido brand name. He was also a member of the G8 Dot Force, of the National Broadband Task Force, and was a founding member of the Washington-basedGlobal Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC).
Sirois is known within investment circles for his purchase of Excel Communications in 1998. Excel, which was a reseller of residential long-distance services, relied on door-to-door sales andmulti-level marketing. While Sirois was able to sell Teleglobe to Bell Canada in 2000 at a price of $6.5 billion, the subsequent bursting of the internet bubble and telecom bust forced Teleglobe into bankruptcy in 2002 and the writedown of $2.1 billion of Excel.[citation needed]
Sirois is one of the founding partners of Enablis and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer from inception.
Sirois had anet worth of C$1.2 billion in 2015.[3]
In 1994, he was made a member of theOrder of Canada in recognition for being "a visionary in the area of intercontinental communications".[4] In 1998, he was made a Knight of theNational Order of Quebec.[5]
He holds honorary doctorates fromUniversité du Québec à Montréal,University of Ottawa,Concordia University,Université Laval and theÉcole de technologie supérieure.
In 1995, he published a book on the information highway entitled "The Medium and the Muse" (ISBN 0-88645-175-2). In his second book, published in June 2000, "Organic Management: Creating a Culture of Innovation" (ISBN 0-00-200053-9), Sirois shares his management philosophy, along with his vision of the new economy.
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| Preceded by | Chair of the Board ofCIBC February 26, 2009– April 23, 2015 | Succeeded by |
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