Created at the request of many of Montreal’s economic and tourist-trade representatives with the idea of boosting the winter tourist season and economic activity in the downtown area, the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival is a private non-profit corporation whose mission is to create, organize and promote a festival-type event of international scope.

Its Board of Directors consists of 16 members. In addition to the president and general manager, Michel Labrecque, it brings together five representatives of Montreal’s cultural milieu as well as five important players in tourism and business. Five representatives of L’Équipe Spectra, overseer and designer of the project, complete the Board, which is presided over by the event’s founder, Alain Simard.

• Michel Labrecque, President and Chief Executive Officer
  President and Chief Executive Officer, MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival
• Alain Simard, Chairman of the Board and founder
  President, L’Équipe Spectra Inc.
• Francine Lelièvre, Vice-president, Culture
  General Manager, Pointe-à-Callière - Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal
• Claude Gendron, Secretary
  Vice-President, Finances, L’Équipe Spectra inc.
• Pierre Bellerose, Vice-president, Tourism
  Vice-president — Public Relations, Research and Product Development, Tourisme Montréal
• Michel Archambault, Administrator
  Professor and Chairholder, Chair in Tourism / UQAM
• Claude Benoît (Ms.), Administrator
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Old Port of Montreal Corporation
• Madeleine Careau, Administrator
  General Manager, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
• Nathalie Carrière, Administrator
  Senior Director – Communications and Publicity, L’Équipe Spectra inc.
• Marcel Côté, Administrator
  President – Secor
• Jacques-André Dupont, Administrator
  Vice-President, Marketing and Business Development, L’Équipe Spectra Inc.
• Michel G. Giguère, Administrator
  President and General Manager, Le Centre Sheraton
• Caroline Jamet, Administrator
  Vice-president Communications, La Presse
• Jacinthe Marleau, Administrator
  Vice-President, Government Relations, L’Équipe Spectra Inc.
• Louis Robitaille, Administrator
  Artistic Director, Les Ballets jazz de Montréal
• Jacques Vézina, Administrator
  Co-Director General and Administrative Director, Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui