Professor Bergeron is an award-winning author on finance who has made
an immensely valuable contribution to the advancement of management best
practices, accountability and good governance. He was Director of Corporate
Finance at Domtar, and led market analysis and capital project evaluation at
Imperial Oil. He also was a senior executive in several departments of the
Federal Government prior to pursuing a distinguished career as a professor of
management and associate dean at the University of Ottawa.
Prof. Bergeron has written extensively on finance, planning, budgeting, and
capital budgeting for professional journals including CA magazine, CMA Magazine,
CGA Magazine, Banker and ICB Review, the Financial Post, and Optimum. He is the
author of eight books including Finance for Non-Financial Managers; Survivor's
Guide to Finance; Modern Management in Canada; Gestion dynamique: concepts,
méthodes et applications; Planification, budgétisation et gestion par objectifs;
and Capital Expenditure Planning for Growth and Profit. He is the recipient of
the Walter J. MacDonald award for his series of articles on capital budgeting
decisions, which appeared in the CA magazine. He has assisted Industry Canada in
designing a Web-based program to help entrepreneurs raise risk funds from
venture capital markets. He also participated in producing The ABCs of Financial
Performance Measures and Benchmarks for Canada's Tourism Sector and Finding
Funding for the Canadian Tourism Commission. He also collaborated in the
production of a series of videos on finance. He created financial-planning
framework to help managers gauge the impact of business strategies, plans and
budgets on financial statements, and to make business decisions using
cutting-edge yardsticks for time-value-of-money investment.
In finance, Professor Bergeron uses examples that are pertinent to
participants from both small and large compagnies, government agencies and
non-profit associations. Clients who sent participants to Professor Bergeron's
finance seminar include Alberta Natural Gas, Alcan Building Products, Atomic
Energy of Canada, Best Foods, Burroughs Welcome, Chevron, Dow Chemicals, Hawker
Siddeley, H.J. Heinz, Helen Curtis, Herman Miller, Hiram Walker & Sons, Keg
Restaurants, Kellogg, Kimberley Clark, Lever Bros., MacMillan Bloedel, Nestlé
Rowntree, Petro-Canada, Robin Hood Multifoods, West Coast Drugs and a host of
federal, state and provincial government agencies.
Mr. Bergeron is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and the University of
Western Ontario.
