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Anne Le Bouyonnec

Interim Co-General Manager

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Anne is Interim Co-General Manager. In particular, she is responsible for skills and careers, promoting training programs and monitoring research and development in Quebec's digital creation sector. Her role is to contribute to the sector's know-how, practices and the evolution of digital creation professions.

Anne is a member of the CDRIN Board of Directors and sits on several technology advisory committees.

Anne has been working in the field of visual and digital arts for over 30 years. Her mastery of the various technologies involved in digital production enables her to manage teams of 2D and 3D artists and programmers. Anne has worked in the fields of visual effects, 3D technologies and video games. She has contributed to the production of numerous films, video games and digital exhibitions. Anne is a lecturer in digital production management at École NAD-UQAC and Université Laval.

Anne has a background in political science and journalism from the Université de Montréal, and in 3D animation for cinema and television from the NAD Centre. She is currently completing her Master's degree in art (digital design) at École NAD-UQAC.
Albane Français

Interim Co-General Manager

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At SYNTHÈSE, Albane acts as interim Co-General Manager. More specifically, she is in charge of the strategic direction of communications, partnerships and business development, with the aim of raising the profile of Quebec's digital creation ecosystem and positioning SYNTHÈSE's expertise in the area of training-job matching.

Albane has been working in the digital creation industry for 20 years. She began her career at the Centre NAD (now École NAD-UQAC), then held various positions at production studios URBANIA MEDIA and CREO.

She is also President of the Board of Directors of iScola, an organization dedicated to promoting education in the digital age. She sits on the organizing committee of the Table de concertation en littératie numérique du Québec, led by Printemps Numérique.

Her range of experiences has given her an excellent understanding of future issues and challenges facing the digital creation sector.

Albane has a degree in marketing communications from HEC Montréal.
Elise Voyer

Senior Project Manager

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Elise joined SYNTHÈSE as a Senior Project Manager. During her 28 year-long career in production and postproduction, she collaborated to numerous projects with local and international creators and clients of renown. Her expertise includes more than 30 movies, 20 short movies, 500 commercials, several Web and TV series, video clips, a variety of corporate projects as well as a few exhibitions.

Notably, Elise worked at Ex-Centris for 8 years as a post-production director with Daniel Langlois. She then worked for the communication agency SidLee and at MPC before joining Atomic Fiction (now Method Studio) as the 3D department Manager, where she supervised a team of 130 artists in the Montreal and Oakland studios.

More recently, she hold the position of VFX producer at Rodeo FX, working for several event, advertising and corporative projects, including the famous Couturissime exhibition by Thierry Mugler or the electrifying Unsainted video by the band Slipknot, winner of an AEAF Award in 2020. She was then a Training Manager at the same studio, nurturing her growing interest for education and expertise development in the image field.

At SYNTHÈSE, Elise has the role to develop the learning platform EXPERTS as well as a project for the promotion of careers in digital creation among young people.

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Lili Trottier

Digital Communications Consultant

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Lili joined SYNTHÈSE as a Digital communications consultant, with a view to helping the organization expand its reach into the digital sphere.

Passionate about management sciences, she completed a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and a Master's degree in Digital Marketing at UQÀM. Her career has been marked by active participation in academic research, including in the video game sector.

Before plunging into the effervescent world of digital creation, Lili worked in the cosmetics industry. Following an initial marketing internship at Cosmétiques France Laure, she continued in this vein, taking on the role of social media manager for over a year. Keen to deepen her knowledge of e-commerce, she broadened her experience at Maison Jacynthe.

Driven by a keen interest in education and training, she is now pursuing her career with SYNTHÈSE.
Nathalie Nguyen

Project Coordinator | Expertise and Careers

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Nathalie joined SYNTHÈSE as a project coordinator. She supports the project managers in the planning and follow-up of projects.

Nathalie recently graduated from UQÀM with a bachelor's degree in Interactive Media Communication. She is curious by nature and has a keen interest in digital arts and new technologies.

Prior to joining SYNTHÈSE, she held the role of Product Owner for the interactive and immersive project, NAVAK, at École des médias at UQÀM, as well as Visual Designer and Production Assistant at Chantre Studio, in 2019. Nathalie enjoys expanding her cultural knowledge and encouraging social engagement. She recently interned at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Colombia in the Art, Music, Design and Science Interactions program. She also spent a year as the Vice President of Business to Customer at AIESEC UQAM Canada, an NPO created by the UN.
Sabrina Bolduc

Research assistant

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Sabrina joined SYNTHÈSE as a research assistant. Her role consists of carrying out various research projects, including La cartographie des programmes en création numérique au Québec, for which she is responsible for research and graphic design.

With a bachelor's degree in graphic design from UQAM and a master's degree in art, concentration in digital design, from l'École NAD-UQAC, Sabrina specializes in graphic design processes in research-creation. This training, which combines theory and practice, gives her a thorough understanding of creative approaches, training and research in the creative industry.

Her career path began with more traditional photography, before moving on to graphic design, where she developed a keen interest in the conceptualization of visual language. Completing her dissertation on '' L’apport du concept de cadre de Schön (1983) au design graphique : processus de design réflexif d’une affiche en réalité mixte'', led her to reposition her practice and explore new avenues. At the same time, she cultivates a variety of interests, including music, longboarding and mechanics.
Inès Bouakkaoui

Web integration intern

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Inès has joined SYNTHÈSE as a web integration trainee. Her role is to participate in the development and implementation of the website.

A student in the DEC Technique Intégration multimédia program at Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne, Inès initially obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry and worked for a year in the pharmaceutical and petrochemical sector. Today, her passion for interactive works and video games plunges her into the extraordinary world of digital creation.

Inès has taken on the role of project coordinator for Femmes+ en tech, an initiative that aims to raise the profile of digital professions among women and non-binary people. In parallel with her internship and studies, she works in the audiovisual department of the Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne. As part of her job, she is involved in a number of projects, courses and installations for openings and open houses at her school's digital center.