3rd place for HEC Montréal at the 2025 Financial Open
February 13, 2025
The HEC Montréal delegation earned a spot on the podium of the Financial Open last weekend, by finishing 3rd overall this year.
An excellent performance by the School’s teams ensured that they were among the top three in 6 of the 11 events in the competition.
They also won 1st place in two events:
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Quiz on Financial News
The Financial Open is the largest inter-university competition in finance and accounting in Canada.
This year’s edition took place in the Désautels Faculty of Management at McGill University on February 7 and 8 and brought together over 400 students from 10 universities.
Photo credit : Vincent Noël et Adrien Tosti
Results of the HEC Montréal teams
|
Discipline |
Rank |
|
Surprise Case |
3rd |
|
Corporate Finance |
3rd |
|
Entrepreneurial Finance |
1st |
|
Quiz on Financial News |
1st |
|
Stock Exchange Simulation |
2nd |
|
Sport |
2nd |
Delegation Members
Surprise Case: Kevin Moslehi, Gabriel Hardy-Joseph, Olivia Jalby.
Financial Accounting: Nada Baddar, Loïc Tiogo, Jie Hua Zhang.
Coaches: Charles Laflamme and Mathieu Chantillon.
Managerial Accounting: William Blanchet-Martineau, Charles Cardinal, Laurence Deschênes.
Coaches: Anne-Sophie Desforges and Céline Gemmel.
CFA Ethics: Nicolas Potvin, Mathieu Lapierre, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Philippe Thériault, Shirin Hinojosa Violante.
Coach: Pierre St-Laurent
Corporate Finance: Arthur Doyon, Vincent Ruel, Justin Sansoucy.
Coaches: Jacques Lemay and Julien Galisson.
Taxation: Joe-Lévy Moise, Karim Oussayar, Guillaume Payette.
Coaches: Mylène Bourget, Carole-Anne Leblanc.
Personal Financial Planning: Ralph El-Khoury, Zachary St-Jean, William Provost.
Coaches: Vanessa Hougton and David Truong.
Quiz: Noah Di Lullo Langelier, Yohan Comeau, Samuel Lewis.
Coaches: Justine Aubry, Chloé Bouchard-Hébert.
Stock Exchange Simulation: Antoine Chartrand-Deniger, Corinne Herrera-Fortin, Olivier Leclair-Deslauriers, Gabriel Veilleux.
Coaches: Laurence Deschênes and Arthur Doyon.
Accompanying the Delegation: Céline Gemmel
Delegation’s Student Coordinator: Elizabeth Fortin
Volunteers: Victor Valois, Baptiste Fanton, Florence Perreault, Lambert Nadeau, Catherine Laberge, Ulysse Deschênes, Noémie Nantel, Simon Boucher-Costi.
The University Competitions Service would like to thank everyone who was involved in coaching and providing support and guidance to the students, as well as the HEC Montréal Alumni Association for its financial support.