Jacques D'Amours (born 1956/1957) is a Canadian

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ...

businessman, and a director and co-founder of the convenience store chain

Couche-Tard Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or simply Couche-Tard, is a Canadian multinational operator of convenience stores. The company has 15,000 stores across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuan ...

Career

D'Amours co-founded Couche-Tard in 1980, the youngest of the four co-founders. He is the second-largest shareholder in the company. D'Amours has been a billionaire since 2005. On September 1, 2021, Couche-Tard announced the election details of directors and Jacques D'Amours was in a nominee.

Personal life

He is married with two children and lives in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...

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Living people Canadian billionaires Canadian company founders 1950s births Businesspeople from Montreal {{Canada-business-bio-stub