RENÉ TREMBLAY
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ivanhoe Cambridge
Profile
René Tremblay was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Cambridge
on February 1, 2001, when Ivanhoe Inc. and Cambridge Shopping Centres Ltd. merged. He had
been Ivanhoe’s President and Chief Operating Officer since March 1995.
Background
Mr. Tremblay was born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, in the Lac-Saint-Jean region, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Université Laval in Quebec City. He has a long and solid track record in real estate, especially in the shopping centre sector.
Early in his career, Mr. Tremblay held various positions with Simpsons-Sears, the Campeau Corporation and Westcliff Group. He then worked for SITQ Immobilier where, from 1985 to 1993, he was successively Manager, Leasing and Development; Vice-President, Shopping Centres and Development; and Senior Vice-President, Operations. Before joining Ivanhoe, he was Senior Vice-President, Investments, at Cadim International, from 1993 to 1995.
Connections
In his capacity as President and CEO of Ivanhoe Cambridge, Mr. Tremblay is a member of the firm’s board of directors. In addition, he serves on the boards of Simon Ivanhoe, a European subsidiary of Ivanhoe Cambridge, and Otéra Capital, a newly created real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. He is also a member of the executive committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Mr. Tremblay recently served a one-year term as the Worldwide Chairman of ICSC and is also a Past Trustee as well as a Past Vice-President of its Canadian Division.
In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Hermès career achievement award by the administrative sciences faculty of Université Laval.