Selection Group announces appointment of Heather C. Kirk in its senior management team

LAVAL, QC, May 11, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - Selection Group is proud to announce the appointment of Heather C. Kirk as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. This strategic addition to Selection Group's senior management team will allow the company to pursue its growth based on its innovative business model and strategic investments. Ms. Kirk was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Cominar, since December 2018. She possesses nearly 25 years of experience in real estate, capital markets and real estate investment funds in Québec and Ontario. Prior to Cominar, she worked at BMO Capital Markets, National Bank and for an independent stockbroker. A native of Montréal, Ms. Kirk holds a bachelor's degree in administration from Concordia University and has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst title. Over the course of her career, she has distinguished herself by receiving more than one award of excellence. She is passionate about travel, active living, genealogy and volunteering.

She will begin her functions at Selection Group at the beginning of June.

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"I welcome Heather C. Kirk to Selection Group. We are very pleased to add to our senior management team a CFO of Heather's calibre that has been thriving in her field for almost 25 years. Her strategic approach and extensive expertise will undoubtedly contribute significantly to the growth of Selection Group and to the achievement of its objectives. In Heather, we have a seasoned senior manager who shares our vision of real estate focused on bringing generations together and respecting the environment. The health crisis in which we have been plunged for almost two months will lead to a great number of challenges as the resuming of economic activity begins. Heather's arrival on our team couldn't be timelier."

– Réal Bouclin, Founding President and Chief Executive Officer, Selection Group

"It is with great pride that I join the outstanding Selection Group team. I look forward to contributing to the growth and future of one of the most prominent companies at the moment in Québec. I am particularly impressed with the leadership of the company's senior management team. For 30 years, and even more so in the current period of growth, Réal Bouclin and his team have developed and applied a unique vision to make Selection Group a leading company in the real estate sector in Canada. The current and future projects are exciting, and it is an interesting challenge for me that comes at the ideal time in my career."

— Heather C. Kirk, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Financing, Selection Group

About Selection Group

Selection Group is a Canadian leader in the creation and management of living environments where generations can come together and thrive. Amidst more than 30 years of unprecedented growth, Selection Group has become the largest private retirement complex developer in the country. Selection Group innovates through an avant-garde intergenerational vision and unique vertically integrated structure. These assets are the pillars of its geographic expansion and the diversification of its real estate products which target young people, families and retirees. Selection Group currently has more than 50 residential complexes in operation, under construction and in development in Canada and the United States and the value of its assets exceeds $5 billion. Selection Group, whose head office is in Laval, Quebec, employs more than 5,000 people who work every day for the well-being of some 15,000 customers whose exceptional satisfaction rate reaches 95%.

For more information, please visit www.groupeselection.com.

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Mylène Dupéré, Vice President, Public Affairs and Corporate Communications, Selection Group, Tel: [phone] ext. 2405, Cell: [phone], [email protected]