Mr. Paul Smith, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, has been with New Flyer since 1988. He is responsible for providing executive-level leadership for all sales and marketing activities. Recent strategic initiatives have included developing and promoting New Flyer’s expertise in hybrid vehicles, relaunching the New Flyer corporate brand, the successful redesign of its standard bus and the introduction of a bus rapid transit (BRT) vehicle. In addition, he has held a variety of leadership and board positions in the Canadian Urban Transit Association and the American Public Transportation Association.

Vice President, Strategic Sourcing at Bombardier Transportation in St-Bruno since February 2008. Responsible for the Procurement activities for North America (Canada, United States and Mexico).

He has previously occupied the following positions.

- Vice President, Project Management and Customer Service from August 2005 to February 2008. Responsible for the management of customer relations, contract administration and project performance. Also responsible for customer service on site and assured leadership and coordination of activities during bid preparation.
- Vice President, Engineering and Advance Engineering from September 1999 to August 2005. Responsible for the Management of design and supported engineering groups. Responsible for product design configuration defined with the objective of meeting both customers’ and manufacturing requirements. Also responsible for managing R&D activities for the Division. In January 2005, added the responsibility to manage both Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities at the manufacturing plants, customer sites and at vendors’ facilities.
- Vice President, Program Management and Quality Assurance, September 1998 to September 1999.
- Vice President, Advance Engineering and Marketing & Sales Canada from June 1996 to September 1998.
- Director, System Engineering from April 1991 to June 1996.

M. Castonguay has been implicated in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles since 2000. His passion of technologies and his involvement in sustainable transportation implementation is further acknowledge by his master degree in mechanical engineering from Université de Sherbrooke, where he coordinated the Reflex project, a hybrid vehicle energy management simulation combining electrical, hydraulic and internal combustion engine power generation systems. Sylvain Castonguay has then been a project engineer for Hydro-Québec and the engineering director of Solera Innovation Inc. He has thought the product development process through capstone projects at Université de Sherbrooke as a graduate student instructor. He also was involved in a urban goods distribution study with the CEREF of Université de Sherbrooke. As CEVEQ’s technical director, he has managed the Segway’s regulation study and the implementation of a fully electrical bus fleet for the RTC of Québec city.

Graduate from mechanical engineering from Université de Sherbrooke in 1983, including one year in France at ‘‘École Nationale Supérieure de Construction Aéronautique’ Toulouse, and holding a certificate in ‘Management of Production and Operations’ from HEC Montréal. With 25 years in various R&D departments related to engineering materials. Works for ONERA (National office for aeronautic studies and research) in France, at Canadair in ‘Advanced Design Group’ and ‘Military technical support’, at Bombardier Mass transit division, in ‘Structure R&D department’ on Walt Disney World monorail, first mass transit vehicle which used intensively composites materials, he works on other steel and aluminum vehicles. At Composite Material Centre, on Pelican, first Canadian composite ultralight aircraft which cross the Atlantic. And at ‘Noranda Technology Centre’, which later become Falconbride at various engineering department and program direction, where participating to 4 patents on metallic material, including the high temperature magnesium alloy used by BMW on half-million vehicle annually. He received the ‘Noranda Chairman Technology Award’ in 2001. Since 2005 he is director of operation at CDCQ, Composite development Centre of Québec.

Sanjeev Gaikwad is a Market Development expert with Alcoa, focused on creating advanced solutions for transportation products through the use of innovative design and manufacturing techniques. He has successfully leveraged the various differentiated technologies developed by Alcoa scientists and engineers to provide key heavy truck OEMs with light weight structural subassemblies, enabling reduction in green house gas emissions and improving fleet owner efficiencies through enhanced payload capabilities.

Sanjeev has 18 years of experience in materials science and applications development, working with BFGoodrich prior to coming to Alcoa. He has a MS in Engineering from The University of Akron, Ohio and an MBA from Cleveland State University, Ohio.

Mr. Gauthier is a member of the Québec Bar. He has a Law Degree from the Université de Sherbrooke and a Certificate in Law from the Université de Montréal.

Specialized in the field of transportation and construction law, he has also worked in commercial litigation and class proceedings.

He worked in the private sector, from 1992 to 1997, for the law firm Guy & Gilbert, and for Legault & Joly Lawyers for two years.

From 1999 to June 2003, he was Managing Director of the Québec Liberal Party (QLP).

He is currently a member of different Boards of Directors among which the Société de Promotion pour l’industrie ferroviaire. He is a Board member of the Canadian Urban Transit Association and of the Société du Parc des Iles. Mr. Gauthier is a governor at the Jeune chambre de commerce de Montréal and a member of the Policy Committee of the greater Montréal Goods Transportation Observatory (comité d’orientation de l’Observatoire de transport des marchandises).

Since November 10, 2003, he has been President and Chief Executive Officer for the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT). The agency was created in 1996 by the Québec government to plan, integrate and coordinate actions related to public transit across the metropolitan area. AMT's mission is to improve the efficiency of personal travel by promoting the use of public transit.

Senior engineer with excellent experience in transportation, product development and administration. He has supervised a variety of alternative propulsion projects including propane, hythane and hydrogen in both school, shuttle and transit bus applications. Mr. Vallée has recently has played an active role in the development and market launch of the LFS HEV (hybrid vehicle) and the LFS Artic (articulated vehicle). As product manager within the business development team at Nova Bus, Mr. Vallée ensures that the product evolution is aligned with the market future needs.

Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Option), GMI ’88 (Kettering University, Michigan)