Annipier Simard, CPA Auditor

Annipier is MNP’s Regional Managing Partner for the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, which includes Chicoutimi, Alma, and Saint-Félicien. She oversees regional strategy and manages the professionals who serve the firm’s clients. Efficient, energetic, and responsive, Annipier is dedicated to finding optimal solutions for the firm’s clients.

Annipier ensures the effective execution of professional and financial services, and the successful completion of engagements for private enterprises in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sectors. Her clients include organizations in the governmental, para-governmental, and not-for-profit spaces.

She has developed cutting-edge experience in business consolidation and restructuring, as well as strategic advisory services.

Annipier is very involved in the region’s business community. She has served as treasurer, vice-president, and president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Lac-Saint-Jean East (Chambre de commerce et d’industrie Lac-Saint-Jean-Est). She has served on several boards, including for the Community Futures Development Corporation (Société d’aide au développement de la collectivité). She was a judge for the OSEntreprendre entrepreneurship challenge, honorary president of the Blueberry Cycle Route (Véloroute des Bleuets) fundraiser and an edition of Spin-O-Max, with proceeds going to the Hôtel-Dieu Foundation (Fondation de l’Hôtel-Dieu), which supports improved health outcomes for the Alma Hospital, Integrated university health and social services centres, residential and long-term care centres, and seniors' homes. She is an Ambassador for Leucan, an organization that helps children with cancer and their families.

Bilingual in French and English, Annipier graduated from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in accounting and an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Accounting. She is a CPA Auditor.

Annipier has been honoured for her many contributions to the profession and for her ongoing business community involvement. In 2013, she received the CPA Emerging Professional (CPA Émergence) award and in 2014, she was named to Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 list in the Future Leaders category. For Alma’s 150^th anniversary celebrations, she was named one of the city’s seven great women.