Guy G. Beaudry - Partner

 

Guy became a Partner of the firm in 2009. He has a very extensive international business experience across a broad range of companies, mostly family controlled - from emerging growth to large, from privately held and publicly traded companies to state owned corporations. Guy has traveled worldwide, has lived internationally and has had involvement in a broad range of industries including technology, communications, financial services and family office management. His areas of responsibility have included strategic planning, corporate affairs, corporate governance, cross-border and international mergers & acquisitions, marketing, legal affairs, communications, media relations, venture capital, banking, management, operations and internal audit.

Guy graduated from the Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Montréal and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1983. He initially practiced for three years with Martineau Walker (now Fasken Martineau) before becoming General Counsel of Comterm Inc., then a publicly traded computer manufacturer.

In 1988, Guy joined Groupe Videotron which was Canada’s second largest cable-telecom company and became Senior Vice-President, Corporate Affairs (1989 - 2000). In 1996, Guy was also elected Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Cable Television Association. At that time also, one of Videotron’s major investments in the United States was in trouble and Guy moved to Mountain View, California, the heart of Silicon Valley where as Chairman and CEO of Wavepath, he successfully completed a US$250M turnaround of the ailing subsidiary and sold it to Sprint Corp for US$210M, netting a US$90M profit for the parent company. Guy subsequently opened Videotron’s Silicon Valley office, Videotron Broadband Ventures, before returning to Canada in 2000 to chair the war room helping to manage the C$6B sale of Groupe Videotron to Quebecor.

In 2001, Guy became Senior Vice-President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Planning Officer of the Business Development Bank of Canada, a crown corporation; Guy was also a member of the bank’s Investment Committee which oversaw Canada’s largest venture capital portfolio of more than C$600M invested in over 200 portfolio companies and funds and funds of funds.

In 2005, Guy returned to the private sector and founded THE CABINET, a strategic planning and corporate affairs advisory firm based in Montreal and became Vice-Chairman of a private Family Office headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas with investments and operational activities worldwide.

Over the course of his career, Guy has served as a Director of many diverse companies in Canada, the United States and abroad.

In 1997, Guy was selected as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by the Canadian business community; this is where he met Rob Follows, STS’s Founding Partner.