{"id":3035,"date":"2026-02-09T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adriq.com\/?post_type=expert&#038;p=3035"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:02:31","slug":"louis-fortier","status":"publish","type":"expert","link":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/network\/experts\/louis-fortier\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Fortier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A specialist in corporate strategy and investment, Louis has over 35 years of experience in investment (VC, growth capital, and buyouts) and marketing (sales and marketing management). He has also participated in the start-up and growth of several companies as a founder, CEO, advisor, investor, and board member. For the past 20 years, he has focused primarily on coaching innovative and impactful entrepreneurs, supporting them in defining their growth plans and developing their capabilities. He has also secured funding for numerous digital transformation projects. Louis has also taught a course (Sales Network Management) at the Faculty of Administration at the University of Sherbrooke. Finally, Louis occasionally speaks at conferences, participates in panel discussions, serves on juries, and is a trainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<section class=\"block-accordions-group aligndefault\">\n    <div class=\"accordion-container\">\n    \n<div id=\"expertise\" class=\"accordion ac\">\n  <div class=\"accordion__accordion\">\n    <button class=\"accordion__header-row accordion-toggle ac-header ac-trigger\">\n      <p class=\"accordion__header__title\">        Expertise      <\/p>      <span class=\"accordion__header__icon\" role=\"presentation\">\n        <span class=\"plus\"><\/span>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/button>\n    <div class=\"accordion__sub-rows wysiwyg ac-panel\">\n      \n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strategic Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business Model Review, Business Plan, and Roadmap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strategic Monitoring, Priority Areas, and Business Intelligence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Venture Capital and Private Financing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market Validation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Value Proposition, Positioning, and Go-to-Market Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"examples-of-mandates\" class=\"accordion ac\">\n  <div class=\"accordion__accordion\">\n    <button class=\"accordion__header-row accordion-toggle ac-header ac-trigger\">\n      <p class=\"accordion__header__title\">        Examples of mandates      <\/p>      <span class=\"accordion__header__icon\" role=\"presentation\">\n        <span class=\"plus\"><\/span>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/button>\n    <div class=\"accordion__sub-rows wysiwyg ac-panel\">\n      \n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strategic planning for numerous companies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Auditing of the sales function, defining sales strategy (marketing, sales), and coaching executives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developing sales acceleration plans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coaching technology and manufacturing entrepreneurs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Special advisor for corporate financing rounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defining business models and preparing management teams for equity financing rounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting the development of investor decks and business plans for several companies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Validating financial models and providing strategic advice on financial strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advisor on numerous advisory committees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3018,"template":"","expert-specialisation":[87,82,27,75],"class_list":["post-3035","expert","type-expert","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expert-specialisation-digital-transformation-and-artificial-intelligence","expert-specialisation-financing-and-taxation","expert-specialisation-marketing","expert-specialisation-vision-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expert"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"expert-specialisation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriq.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert-specialisation?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}