Isabel Dansereau
COO Attractions (Québec) and as Old Port of Montréal Executive Director.
As part of the Canada Lands Company’s top management team, Isabel’s role is to develop both vision and strategic planning for the Company’s attraction sites in Montréal and to oversee the management of activities at the Montréal Science Centre and the Old Port of Montréal. She is also the General Manager and First Fiduciary of the Science Centre Foundation.
Isabel is a seasoned manager able to skillfully mobilize the resources needed to ensure success across multiple major projects. Her best assets are her determination, her responsiveness, and her ability to tackle complex challenges, all of which contributed to her nomination to her current position in 2022.
Isabel graduated from the McGill-HEC Montréal’s EMBA program and also has degrees in economics and political science from McGill University and in business administration from Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2019, @Poets&Quants named her one of 100 Best & Brightest EMBAs from her time in the McGill-HEC Montréal program.
Benoît Renaud
Senior Director, Old Port of Montréal
As a member of the Old Port of Montréal Corporation’s management team, Benoît’s role is to develop the vision and strategic plan for the Old Port of Montréal as an attractions site. His role is also to ensure the Corporation's financial resilience.
Benoît has held a number of positions at the Old Port of Montréal Corporation over the years: science educator, supervisor, Head of Programming and Logistics, Head of Visitor Services, Director of MSC and OPM Operations, and today Old Port of Montréal Senior Director.
Benoît has a degree in education (with a specialization in science) from Université du Québec à Montréal.
Cybèle Robichaud
Director, Montréal Science Centre
Cybèle’s role is to develop, implement, review, and update the MSC’s development plan. Part of her work is focused on marketing, programming, and developing content partnerships in an effort to maximize both value creation and the Centre’s reputation. Her work is also focused on using business strategies to develop financial partnerships for the MSC and the MSC Foundation to ensure the sound financial management of development projects.
Prior to her time at the Montréal Science Centre, Cybèle worked as a museologist at Montréal’s Espace pour la vie and biosphere. Over the years at the Old Port of Montréal Corporation, Cybèle held a number of positions: Project Manager (Exhibitions), Head of Services (Exhibitions), and Programming Director. She has been serving as the MSC Director since November 2021. And she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Science Centres as an officer of the CSM.
Cybèle has a Master degree in museology from Université de Montréal. She also has a Bacherlor’s degree in anthropology, with a specialization in archeology.