Marie-Helene Primeau, MBCI, CPA, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor

As the Executive Vice President at Premier Continuum and a senior consultant in business continuity and resilience, Marie-Hélène Primeau has been assisting organizations around the world to increase their organizational resilience for 20 years. Accredited CPA, MBCI and ISO 22301 Lead Auditor and awarded RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur 2016, Marie-Helene is also a seasoned practitioner, with a significant experience in supporting public and private organizations in setting up, exercising, maintaining, and evaluating their business continuity program.

Driven by her desire to empower teams and organizations to be more effective by providing them with the best business continuity management tools and resources, Marie-Helene is a BCI Approved Instructor since 2009. She has trained hundreds of professionals in North America and Europe, in English and French. Marie-Helene also regularly speaks at conferences on the topic of Business Continuity (DRJ, BCI World Conference, DMEX, CIMC, Conference Board of Canada, CRT Toronto, BCI Awareness Week, BCI Education Month).

Moreover, to promote the art and science of business continuity and contribute to thought leadership as a volunteer, she is the former President of BCI Canada Chapter, a member of the ISO Technical Committee 292 on security and resilience in charge of the development of various standards including the ISO 22301 standard on Business Continuity and a member of the CSA Z1600 Standard Committee on Emergency and Business Continuity Management.

Marie-Hélène also won Consultant of the Year at the BCI Americas Awards 2023.