He was chairman and chief executive officer of Ivanhoé Cambridge, a real estate subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, from June 2010 to October 2019.
[3] Prior to joining CDPQ, he was chairman of engineering consulting firm Genivar,[4] now WSP Global, and a member of the board of directors of national retailer Canadian Tire.
[1] In recent years, he chaired the fundraising campaigns for La Maison du Père, the Lighthouse Children and Families and the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC).
He also co-chaired the $40 million Leading the Way fundraising campaign for Bishop's University and until February 2020, he served as chairman of the board of trustees of McCord Museum Foundation in Montreal.
In 2007, Fournier contributed a chapter to Reconquérir le Canada: Un nouveau projet pour la nation québécoise, a book defending Canadian federalism within Quebec.