Philippe Pourreaux

Philippe Pourreaux is a Partner in the Value Creation, Deals practice at PwC Canada. He is also Quebec’s Energy, Utilities and Mining Deal sector leader. Philippe has over 21 years of corporate and advisory experience focusing on data-driven decision making. His areas of expertise include business strategy, operations, financial modelling, analytical modelling, and investment and transactional advisory. 

Philippe works on projects across all industries, but focuses on capital intensive sectors, in particular metals and mining, renewable energy, manufacturing, industrial and real estate. Philippe utilizes expert insights to help leading Canadian organizations, including Quebec-based public and private companies, to optimize their transactional, strategic, operational and investment decisions to create and maximize value. 

Philippe plays a key role in PwC’s Global Critical and Strategic Minerals working group and PwC’s Global Hydrogen and Fuel of the Future working group. 

Philippe graduated with an MBA from HEC Montreal and holds a CFA designation. He volunteers on the Board of Governors for Concordia University and is a former president of the Concordia University Alumni Association.

Prior to joining PwC, Philippe worked in various corporate strategy and financial roles, most notably at Rio Tinto Aluminum, Bombardier Aerospace, Secor Consulting and National Bank of Canada.

• Pre-Deal Value Creation: Working with companies on both the buy side and sell side, to enhance analysis of the transaction, including deal strategy, modelling and data and analytics, validating the investment thesis and better understanding the transaction risks and opportunities.
  
• Post Deal Value Creation: Supporting clients to identify, execute and realize value creation opportunities to enhance the value of their businesses, including strategy development, operational and commercial planning, roadmapping and execution.
• Analytics and Financial Modelling: Targeted analytics and financial modelling to validate the investment thesis or to support ongoing corporate strategic planning, forecasting and performance management through the development of driver-based financial or analytical models.
• Financial Model Diligence: Working with clients to test financial models and help provide additional insights, building confidence in their decision support tools.