Marc-Olivier Sabourin

Vice President Global CAE Defence and Security

Marc-Olivier Sabourin was appointed Vice President and General Manager Global Defence and Security in October 2019. In this role Marc-Olivier Sabourin has overall Profit & Loss responsibility for all of CAE Defence business outside of the USA. Heading a team of more than 2000 employees around the globe, Marc-Olivier Sabourin executes CAE’s Trainings System Integration (TSI) strategy, offering best in class training systems to militaries from more than 50 nations. Prior to his current nomination, Marc-Olivier Sabourin was accountable for the solid and profitable growth of CAE's Defense & Security business as Vice President and General Manager in the Europe & Africa region. Previously, Marc-Olivier Sabourin was accountable for CAE Operations within the EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) region in the capacity of Director, Regional Operations. As such, he managed CAE’s production sites in Hungary and United Kingdom in addition to the German office and all the activities executed in the Canadian head-quarters for customers of the EMEA region. Marc-Olivier Sabourin has an exciting track record to support the growth plans and goals for the European region, having extensive experience in Business Development, Sales, Engineering and Project Management, both globally and domestically as well as developing CAE’s business in the region and in Germany. In 1996, he began his career within the simulation and training industry with CAE, at the head office in Canada, where he spent over 10 years in project execution covering different roles from software development to project management. In 2006, Marc-Olivier Sabourin was promoted to Director of Engineering for CAE Elektronik GmbH in Germany where he headed the successful completion of the cornerstone initiative NH90 German PFI project. Marc-Olivier Sabourin has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University and a Master of Business Administration degree from HEC University. Marc-Olivier Sabourin has received several prizes and recognitions for his work and published articles.