Luc Desjardins

LUC DESJARDINS was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
Transcontinental Inc. on March 24, 2004. He joined Transcontinental in
May 2000 as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Desjardins has a
long track record as a top executive in Canada and the United States.
Prior to joining Transcontinental, he was President and CEO of a major
US division of Mail-Well, a leading commercial printer in North America,
where he was responsible for some 50 plants with annual revenues of US$1
billion and close to 7,000 employees. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Desjardins
was President and Chief Executive Officer of Supremex, a Canadian
printer acquired by Mail-Well in 1995. Mr. Desjardins obtained his
Master’s in Business Administration from the Universit du Qubec
Montral in 1993. In the 1980s he successfully completed the Harvard
University Management Development program.