Industry Engagement Coordinator, Future of Canadian Automotive Labourforce (FOCAL) Initiative

Vincent brings over 20 years of automotive industry experience, with foundational understandings of manufacturing and supply chains, operations, marketing, and stakeholder engagement, as well as extensive involvement in the evolution of Canada’s automotive, mobility and transportation industries.

As a past senior executive of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA), he helped grow the organization through member, partnership and stakeholder development, advocacy and policy development, event and operational management and engaging in international trade development activities, to help strengthen the Canadian auto sector through its technological and digital transformations in manufacturing processes, connectivity and new vehicle technology development.

More recently, he has also worked as Director, Special Projects at the Canadian Urban Transit & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) and as Director, Business Development at the Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility (CITM), a Regional Technology Development Site operating at the Innovation Factory in Hamilton, Ontario within the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) supporting partner development and the start-up community for innovations in automated/connected vehicles, electrification, mobility, multi-modal and transportation technologies.

Vincent is currently based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and is a graduate of McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business.