Philippe Adam
Chief Financial Officer, Goodfood
Philippe Adam is the Chief Financial Officer of Goodfood Market Corp. (TSX:FOOD). Mr Adam has over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, accounting and operations. He was a principal at Champlain Financial Corporation, a Canadian private equity firm, between 2013 and 2018 where he led many buyout transactions and acted as a board member of several portfolio companies. From 2013 to 2016, he was the chief financial officer of Garda Background Screening Solutions, a leading pre-employment screening services company that was sold to a strategic buyer in 2016. Mr Adam was an investment banker with National Bank Financial and was as a director in their corporate financing group, covering both public and private companies. Prior to that, he worked for several years at Deloitte LLP and at a Canadian investment fund. He has been involved in a wide variety of strategic matters over the years including mergers and acquisitions, cross border transactions and debt and equity financing. Philippe earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Laval University and a Graduate Diploma in Accountancy from HEC. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) and has the Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) designation, for which he was the Canadian gold medallist in 2009.