Lauzon named EVP at growing Canoe

MONTREAL – Quebecor Media's popular portal company, Canoe, named former Sympatico executive Patrick Lauzon its executive vice-president. Lauzon "will steer Canoe’s national growth and development strategy and oversee all business units, including the Canoe.qc.ca and Canoe.ca portals, the commercial sites Jobboom, Micasa.ca, Autonet.ca, ClassifiedExtra/ ClasséesExtra, Flirt.ca/Réseau Contact, and several new products currently under development," says the press release. Lauzon (pictured below) has more than 13 years of experience with media and Internet companies. He was responsible for media sales and business development at Sympatico/MSN and occupied a number of key positions at Bell Canada and its subsidiaries. He is also...