Meet the Team

Mr. Bouchard has served as the Executive Chairman of Alimentation Couche-Tard since 2014, when he stepped down after 25 years as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Bouchard opened his first convenience store in Québec in 1980 and founded the companies that grew into Alimentation Couche-Tard. He has over 45 years of experience in the retail industry and worked with his closest collaborators and all staff members to build Alimentation Couche-Tard into the business it is today. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of CGI Inc. from 2013 to 2023.

Alex Miller was named President and CEO in September 2024, after serving as  Chief Operating Officer since January 2023.

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Previously, Mr. Miller held the positions of Executive Vice-President, Operations, North America, and Global Optimization beginning in March 2021, Executive Vice President, Commercial Optimization since  May 2019, Senior Vice-President, Operations and Global Fuels since December 2017, Senior Vice-President, Global Fuels since November 2016, and Vice-President, Fuels since October 2012. Mr. Miller joined Couche-Tard as Director of Fuels, Real Estate and Facilities in 2012.

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Prior to joining Couche-Tard, he was with BP Plc. for 16 years in a variety of operational, supply, business development, and strategy roles in the US and Europe with increasing levels of responsibility. This included eight years in retail across multiple channels in six different US markets across the Southeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic geographies. He spent a further four years in London, working in Strategy & Planning at BP Plc’s head office, and a final four years in Chicago working within fuel supply value chain optimization and business development.

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Mr. Miller holds a BS in Business Management from Southern Illinois University.

Mr. Dzadovsky was appointed Chief Technology Officer in April 2022. Previously, Mr. Dzadovsky served as Vice President of North America IT since January 2018. He has close to 20 years of experience in information technology.

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Mr. Dzadovsky began his career with McDonald’s Pittsburgh region in 2000 as a crew member. After working 10 years in store operations, he moved to McDonald’s Chicago headquarters in 2011 as the Operations Restaurant Technology Senior Director. With a passion for people, he quickly became known for developing high performing teams of operations and technology experts. Mr. Dzadovsky held various leadership positions in the Information Technology organization, including Senior Director IT Delivery Global Digital Products, where he led McDonald’s digital transformation through innovative technology features.

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Mr. Dzadovsky is an alum of the University of Pittsburgh where he earned a degree in Computer Science.

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Ms. Fortune was appointed Chief Digital Officer in July 2024. Previously, Ms. Fortune served as Senior Vice President, eCommerce and Chief Product Management Officer at Advance Auto Parts, and as Senior Vice President, Ecommerce at Big Lots, where she initiated and drove the Omni transformation for this discount retailer and where she built its e-commerce Platform. Ms. Fortune has deep digital leadership experience, having spent her entire career focused on retail and merchandising, including over a decade in senior leadership roles within digital commerce.

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Ms. Fortune has a Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising from Kent State University.

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Mr. Da Silva joined Alimentation Couche-Tard as Senior Vice President, Finance in March 2023, and was appointed Chief Financial Officer on July 1, 2023. Prior to joining Couche-Tard, Mr. Da Silva held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Head of Real Estate at Walmart Canada, from April 2020 to March 2023 and CFO of Central America from April 2016 to January 2021.

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Previously, Mr. Da Silva held various management positions within TotalEnergies, a French energy conglomerate, in Argentina, followed by Carrefour, a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation, working out of Buenos Aires, Colombia, India and Indonesia. He later joined Groupe Exito, one of South America’s largest retailers before joining Walmart in 2016 as CFO for Central America operations.

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Mr. Da Silva holds a Masters in Strategy and Finance from ESCP Business School.

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Ms. Strand holds the Chief People Officer position since April 2017. In this role she has oversight over Human Resources, Health Safety & Sustainability, Communications and Events. Ms. Strand was previously Senior Vice-President of Special Projects since 2014, working on many global projects, including the development and introduction of the new global Circle K brand.

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Ms. Strand joined Statoil Retail Norway AS in 2003 as a People Development manager, and was later appointed Human Resources Director, Customer Offer Director and deputy Vice-President of Operations in Norway before she joined Statoil Fuel & Retail’s Executive leadership team as Executive Vice President of Market Development when the company was publicly listed October 1st, 2010. After the acquisition by Couche-Tard, Ms. Strand held the position of Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Europe until 2014. Prior to joining Statoil, Ms. Strand worked five years as analyst, consultant, and project manager at the Norwegian office of UK based PA Consulting Group.

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Ms. Strand holds a Master of Science degree in industrial economics and technology management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

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Mr. Høidahl was appointed Executive Vice-President, Operations Europe in May 2019. He joined Couche-Tard in June 2012 when it acquired Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA, and has held the position of Executive Vice-President, Scandinavia since October 2010. He was formerly Vice President for Energy Europe in the Statoil Group since 2006.

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Mr. Høidahl joined Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA in 1992 and has held a variety of positions including director for customer service in Norway, manager for regional sales in Scandinavia, sales director for Norway, country manager for energy in Norway and Vice President for energy operations.

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Mr. Høidahl holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Norwegian School of Management.

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Mr. Madsen was named Executive Vice President, Operations, Europe, after serving as Senior Vice President, Operations, since Spring 2019. He joined Couche-Tard in June 2012 when it acquired Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA and held the position of Executive Vice-President, Central & Eastern Europe, since October 1, 2010. He was formerly Vice President for country operations in Statoil Energy & Retail ASA, since 2007.

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He joined Statoil in 1990 and held several management positions including Vice President for retail operations Europe, Director of Retail Operations in Denmark, Director of Retail Operations in the Baltic countries, Director of Category Management in the Baltic countries, Regional Manager of Retail Operations in Denmark, and Controller in Denmark.

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Mr. Madsen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Copenhagen Business School.

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Louise Warner was named Executive Vice President, North American Operations and Global Commercial Optimization in September 2024 after serving as Senior Vice President, Global Fuels since joining Alimentation Couche-Tard in January 2021. Prior to Couche-Tard, Ms. Warner was a member of the Caltex Australia (now Ampol) Executive team from 2016 to 2020 and held the positions of Chief Commercial Officer, and previously Executive General Manager of Fuels & Infrastructure. In her 21- year tenure with Caltex Australia, she held a variety of operational, project and commercial roles, and was responsible for Australian and international operations in Singapore, New Zealand and the Philippines. Ms. Warner holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

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