# Alexandre Belleau Chief Operating Officer ## Career chronology - **2016–cutoff: Champion Iron** — Chief Operating Officer; joined 2016. [FY2026 annual report]() (printed pp.18–19); [FY2021 annual report]() (printed p.68, key management table and notes) - **Before Champion; company names and dates not identified: Building-control and bioenergy start-ups** — Co-founder / participant. [FY2026 annual report]() (printed pp.18–19) ## Education and qualifications ### Education and credentials [belleau_education] undated · issuer reported · medium materiality The company reports a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Université de Sherbrooke; independent credential verification remains unavailable. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The claim is attributed to the referenced source; personal causation is not assumed. **Relevance:** Relevant to professional experience and role assessment. [FY2026 annual report]() (printed pp.18–19 management team) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Quarterly results show weaker margins despite record sales [belleau_results] Q2 FY2027 · issuer reported · medium materiality Champion reported record consolidated sales of 4.5 million dry tonnes, but a C$48.4 million net loss in the September 2026 quarter versus C$56.8 million profit a year earlier; it cited weaker pricing, freight and startup costs. The period included the acquired Rana Gruber operation. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Role overlaps the company outcome; neither causation nor individual fault follows from a corporate loss. **Relevance:** Relevant to professional experience and role assessment. [FY2027 second-quarter results]() (pp.1–3) ## Industrial safety ### Contractor injured at Bloom Lake construction site [belleau_injury] December 2024–cutoff · documented · high materiality Local reporting says an overhead crane collapsed at the concentrator-2 expansion on 11 December 2024, injuring a contractor employee. CNESST said it was investigating. The investigation’s final findings were not found. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Executive role overlapped the incident; no personal action, fault or causal responsibility was established. **Relevance:** Relevant to operational and contractor-safety oversight. [Overhead crane collapse injures worker at Bloom Lake]() (13 December 2024, accident and investigation paragraphs) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit [belleau_fit] assessment at 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality Operational oversight and engineering experience fit a multi-asset producer, subject to normal mining, safety and execution risks. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The claim is attributed to the referenced source; personal causation is not assumed. **Relevance:** Relevant to professional experience and role assessment. [FY2026 annual report]() (printed pp.18–19 management team) ## Evidence gaps - The reviewed public searches do not constitute an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, regulatory, litigation or credential check. - Full prior-employer outcomes and exact tenure dates are not independently verified. - The final CNESST crane-incident investigation, enforcement and remediation outcomes were not located in the targeted searches. - Broad combined name-and-employer queries were reused across topic classifications. Separate comprehensive court, regulator and employer-specific searches were not completed for every relevant topic and employer.