KGP competition: 2 teams from the school on the podium

(From left to right), Benoit Lalonde, President of the Board, PMI Montréal; Lisa Baillargeon, Associate Dean Programs, École des sciences de la gestion de l’UQAM; the winning team of MSc students Sébastien Lourties, Hugo Rossi, Aurélie Michaud and Benjamin Maunier; Catherine Castagner, President, Association des étudiants de la maîtrise en gestion de projet de l’UQAM (AéMGP); Myriam Bourgoin, Project Manager, KGP Contest.

Two HEC Montréal teams made the podium at the 8^th edition of the KGP Competition on November 11, hosted by the ESG UQAM business school, on the theme of Montréal’s 375^th anniversary celebration.

First place in the Master’s-level category of the interuniversity project management case competition went to the team of HEC Montréal MSc students of Benjamin Maunier, Aurélie Michaud, Hugo Rossi and Sébastien Lourties. Sébastien also won the “Best Speaker” award for his level. In the undergraduate category, third place went to four BBA students from HEC Montréal: Elizabeth Coutu, Simon Drolet, Kaileigh Hamilton-Browne and Vincent Collard-Tremblay.

Congratulations to the winners and to their coach, Stéphanie Leverdier (BBA 2008, Co-ordinator – Associations and Events at HEC Montréal)!

(From left to right), Myriam Bourgoin, Project Manager, KGP Contest; Lisa Baillargeon, Associate Dean Programs, École des sciences de la gestion de l’UQAM; the winning team of BBA students Kaileigh Hamilton-Browne, Elizabeth Coutu, Simon Drolet and Vincent Collard-Tremblay; Benoit Lalonde, President of the Board, PMI Montréal.