Maxipage Enterprise

In 2004 he sold his first Internet company, and for the next two years (2005 to 2006), he had the opportunity to work for Trader Classified Media, well established firm in over 21 countries. This precious experience enabled him to discover opportunities at an internationnal level.

He later launched in 2007 the design and development of Maxipage.

François Duffar’s whole career has been in the communications industry. After having been a journalist and had several management and advisory roles within government agencies, he joined Cossette in 1974, as General Manager and set up and managed the Montreal office. Later, he became President of the Cossette Group and played a significant role in its growth and expansion within Canada and abroad. Following the opening of offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax, he oversaw Cossette’s entry into the New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai markets. Under his leadership, Cossette developed a stable of international clients and its billings surpassed the one billion dollar mark.

In 2007, he resigned as President of Cossette and founded Navilon Inc, a private investment company of which he is principal shareholder. He sits on the Boards of several technology companies such as CellFish Media, based in the US, as well as community and cultural organizations.

François Duffar was designated ‘Nouveau Performant’ in 1990 (a management performance award). In January 2006, this founder and builder of Cossette was inducted, with Claude Lessard, into the Marketing Hall of Legends for his remarkable contribution to the field of marketing in Canada.

Paul Corriveau is President of Navilon Inc., an investment holding company based in Montreal, Canada. Under his guidance, Navilon has been a strategic investor in areas such as consumer products, media and commercial real estate. He is also Executive Vice-President within Cosmos Capital and a key player in Cosmos Group’s efforts to acquire Cossette Inc.

A lawyer by training (McGill University, Faculty of Law) and a graduate of France’s École Nationale d’Administration, Paul is an accomplished business executive with a background in corporate strategy. He previously worked as a senior strategy consultant at the Boston-based Monitor Company. Over the years, he has held senior corporate strategy positions or business development roles in several large companies such as Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) and Bombardier in Montreal and RTL Group in London.                      

To complement his corporate experience, Paul has also held senior positions within the Canadian government, as policy advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to two Canadian Prime Ministers.

Constantin Salameh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Abdulla A Masaood & Sons Group, an Abu-Dhabi based, privately owned and diversified holding with operations in the automotive, hospitality & leisure, industrial, construction, trading and services sectors.

He has 30 years of senior cross-functional management experience with multinational companies in the technology, private equity, retail and financial services sectors. He was the managing director of a multi-billion dollars private investment group and the senior VP & CFO of a family business with more than 40,000 employees and operations in fifty countries.

Mr. Salameh held senior executive positions with Hewlett Packard (1984-2003) including VP & Managing Director of HP Financial Services in Asia Pacific (1996-1999) and in EMEA (2000-2003).

He holds a B.Sc. (Eng.) from King’s College in London (1979), a M.Sc. (Eng.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980) and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1984).

Mr. Salameh held positions on boards of public and private companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. He is a member of the board of Young Enterprise Switzerland, the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute, the Berytech Venture Fund and the AUB Graduate School of Business.

He is a frequent speaker at international conferences organized by the World Bank, Euromoney, IMD, Asia International and Campden Conferences. He is the author of publications in the fields of international finance and business strategy.

With more than 20 years in the field of Information Systems and Technologies, Zouhaire has spent the last 10 years bringing together his technical expertise and his passion for the business.

After more than a decade with IBM, he joined in 2001 Trader Classified Media as CIO and for 5 years had a job title where the “I” of CIO had a ubiquitous role, initially for Information it quickly became for Internet.

He then took on the challenge to help one of the major Canadian Media companies to make the digital turn as VP of digital Media. Since beginning of 2010, Zouhaire is working on the launch of a Digital local marketing agency