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Jean-Claude Bigué

Jean-Claude Bigué, M.Sc., was born in the city of Montreal, province of Quebec, on October 3rd, 1952. He is a private banker and a Canadian businessman. He mainly distinguished himself in the private patrimony management and in the patrimony engineering in Canada. Since 2004, J.C. Bigué has been actively working to establish the first independent private bank in Canada by gathering a group of experienced professionals who will manage the future Belmont Private Bank and its subsidiaries (The Belmont Trust Company, Belmont Family Office, Belmont Investments Management, Belmont Risk Management, Belmont Patrimony Engineering, Belmont Consulting Services, Belmont Capital Strategic Alliances, Belmont Health Care Cooperative, Belmont Private Club, Belmont Fitness Centre, Belmont Limousines, Belmont international Services, Belmont Business School for Private Bankers and the Belmont Foundation), as the first independent Canadian financial group to offer an integrated private patrimony management, patrimony engineering and Family Office, in the pure tradition of the European private banks. As such, they will become the first entrepreneurs in the banking sector to establish an independent private bank in Canada and to exercise their activities by having invested their own capital, while supported by business people.

He is the eldest son of a family of four children. His father, Jacques Bigué was a carpenter and his mother, Monique de Montigny, secretary typist, whom took care of the family household. He attended and graduated from the local high schools. He completed his under graduated studies at the University of Quebec in Montreal (U.Q.A.M.) in Accounting and obtains a Master's degree in Project Management at the University of Quebec at Rimouski (U.Q.A.R). He also holds diplomas with The Canadian Bankers Institute (I.C.B.) in Administration, in Finance and in Accounting; The Canadian Securities Institute (C.S.I.M.) and The Quebec Institute of Financial Planning (I.Q.P.F.). He was, until September, 2007, member of the Order of the Chartered Administrators of Quebec (Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec - O.A.A.Q)..

J.C. Bigué is married with Lenda Handfield (1976) and has two children Patrice (1981) and Vanessa (1986).

He began his career in 1972, in the retail trade as co-owner of a clothing store for man. He turned to the financial services field in 1975 and in 1977, became Branch Manager for an international financial institution. He managed the Montreal, Chambly, Mount-Laurier, Granby and Saint Lawrence offices, in all in the province of Quebec. In 1987, he joined one of the big Canadian bank where he held numerous Senior Manager positions. After covering specific lines of business such as personal loans to individuals, mortgage lending, loans to investors, the commercial credit and investments, he specialized in 1990 in the private wealth management (Senior Private Banker, Trust and Investments Manager, Regional Manager Business Development and Private Wealth Consultant in private assets management). From 2002 until 2004, he held the position of Vice President Finance and Administration for a company specializing in the information technologies.

J.C. Bigué wrote countless financial columns in order to assist banking branches staff: for regional weeklies; specialized periodicals; also, two reports (memoirs) representing the position of the Order of the Chartered Administrators of Quebec (O.A.A.Q) for the Association of the provincial securities commissions of Canada and Ministers of Finance. He is identified as one of the professionals to have developed the domain of professional activity in the private patrimony management field in Canada and to have established the first concepts for private patrimony management in Canada. He is the co-author of Private Patrimony Management – Guide for the best practises, published by Publications CCH (# Q672.). He held the position of Vice President - Professional Affairs in the field of professional activity for Financial Planning (2000-2004) and also President in the field of professional activity for Private Patrimony Management (2004-2006) at the Order of the Chartered Administrators of Quebec. He sat on the board of administration of numerous SME and of non-profit associations. Mr Bigué conducted numerous seminaries and conferences; he collaborated in the elaboration of a graduate degree (D.E.S.S.) in Private Patrimony Management at the School of the Hautes Etudes Commerciales (French business school) of Montreal (H.E.C.)

J.C. Bigué was Chief-appraiser with Grand Prix Québécois de la Qualité (Quebec Malcolm Baldrige Award equivalent) of the Ministry of Regional Economic Expansion with the Government of Quebec from 2001 to 2006, Expert - Diagnosis and Solutions, at the Quality Event 2004 of the Quebec Movement of Quality. In 1995, he was Chairman of the Regional Québec Council for the Canadian Bankers Institute (C.B.I.); he took numerous graduate courses in with University of Sherbrooke in tax planning; also, at the Montreal H.E.C., a training in business ethics; he also completed at Covey Leadership Centre, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People training. Finally, the Cannon Financial Institute, Banking on Wealth training. He is co-trustee of numerous family trusts. He was Executive Vice President of the Naval League of Canada, Cap-Rouge / St-Augustin Branch (1994-95), Lieutenant and Senior Leader of the Royal Canadian Army Cadet, Regiment of Maisonneuve (1966-69).

J.C. Bigué initiated and co founded the Belmont Private Bank and its subsidiaries by establishing the basic concepts of its start up, by assembling more than fifty highly experienced professionals and by recruiting a group of investors enabling the realization of this project of first private independent bank in Canada.

Jean-Claude Bigué is a member of the Board of Directors, President of the Executive Management Committee, President of the Executive Committee and President of the Committee of Strategic Planning. He will occupy the functions of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Belmont Private Bank and its numerous subsidiaries in the Belmont Private Group.

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