Paul-Henri Couture - Minvest Capital

Mr. Paul-Henri Couture has over 35 years of experience as a financial management and investment professional. He is President of Minvest Capital, a Management and Investment Consulting Services Company.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Montréal). He  is a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of several professional associations.

Mr. Couture held various positions at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (Caisse) from 1983 to 2009.

From 1995, as Senior Vice-President, he built and led a team responsable for the management and development of a CA $3-billion investment portfolio in the Financial Institutions and Natural Resources sectors. As of 2006, as Senior Vice-President -Natural Resources, Distress and Restructuring and New Products portfolios, he launched and developed a CA $3-billion portfolio in distressed debt, turnarounds and corporate restructurings. At Caisse, he was a member of the Private Equity Investment Committee among others. As such, Mr. Couture had to evaluate hundreds of transactions.

Mr. Couture put forward innovative projects that included the launch of two mining funds : Groupe Sodémex Inc., involved with mining exploration companies and MinQuest Capital, a $225 million private equity capital development mining fund seeking investment opportunities worlwide. He also offered strategic support to the formation of insurance and leasing companies.

In 2009, he joined Sentient Asset Management Canada, a subsidiary of The Sentient Group, an important manager of private equity funds in the mining sector, as President and Director. He built an investment team made of professionals in finance and investment, as well as specialists of the mining sector. Since April 2013, Mr. Couture is President of Minvest Capital an enterprise that provides Management and Investment Consulting Services.

He worked at the Federal Business Development Bank for the first six years of his professional career.

Mr. Couture has been a member of over thirty boards of directors and Private Equity Investment Funds advisory committees, including, among others, those of Domtar, Cascades, La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rotschild Banque, Société d’investissement Desjardins, Corporation Alter Moneta, Addenda Capital Inc, Concert Industries, Exploration Cambiex, Gestion Sodémex, MinQuest Capital, Pershimco Resources, Newstar Financial, CVI Global Value Fund, Cerberus Institutional Partners LP, Avenue-CDP Global Opportunity Fund and of Fondation Lionel-Groulx.  He is currently a member of the board of directors of Strateco Resources, Nemaska Litium and GeoMegA Resources.