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Estelle Métayer

Estelle Metayer

Estelle Métayer

Principal, Founder Competia

Bio

Estelle Métayer is an expert in Competitive and Strategic Intelligence. Her research focuses on how managers, CEOs, and board members build and improve their strategic planning and/or competitive intelligence function to avoid strategic blindspots. Her best work is done when companies need to drastically change the way they do business and/or grow aggressively. She is a reputed public speaker in international conferences ( for example in Davos in 2012) and facilitates strategic workshops around the world. An adjunct professor for McGill University, she teaches in the Advanced Leadership Programs, the International Master for Health Leadership, and the Executive MBA among others. She leads the strategic module for the McGill-Rottman School of Business’s certification program for Canadian board directors. Estelle has also been a guest lecturer in programs led or co-led by IMD (Lausanne), the IMB (India), INSEAD (France) or MIT (United States).

Prior to selling the company in 2004, Estelle was the president and founder of a leading training organization for executives and analysts in Strategic Intelligence. A former consultant at the international Strategic Consulting firm McKinsey & Company, she gained first-hand practical experience while managing the competitive intelligence, business development and strategic planning function at CAE Inc. She started her career at the ING Bank in the Netherlands and in Poland, studying the financial risks of expanding into emerging countries, and in the French Conglomerate Bouygues in France and the United Kingdom.

She received in 2000 the Arista Sunlife Award for "Entrepreneur of the Year".

Estelle is an independent member of the board of BRP inc ($DOO on the TSX) and a member of the audit committee. She is also a member of the board of directors of Zag Bank (Calgary, Canada), Blockstream ( blockchain technology) (Montreal-San Francisco), the Montreal Board of Trade, and a member of the advisory board of Ricardo Media (Montreal, Canada). Previously, she was a member of the board of Ubisoft ($UBI on Euronext) where she chaired the compensation committee, of the Grands Ballets Canadiens and of World Canada Youth.

Estelle was trained in the Netherlands, where she obtained her MBA and Drs. from the University of Nijenrode. She speaks French, English, German, Dutch, Italian and is learning Arabic. She is also a mother, a commercial pilot and flight instructor.