About Bernadette

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Bernadette Saumur is Chief Executive Officer of Talent Matters Inc. Bernadette founded Talent Matters in 2010.  She is based in Toronto and leads Talent Matters in its comprehensive Recruitment, Staffing, and specialized Talent Solutions to a broad range of clients across many business industries and verticals. Bernadette is a specialist in the area of Talent Acquisition with extensive experience in the Legal, Banking, Finance, FinTech, and Technology verticals, and in Contingent Workforce Solutions. 

 

Honed by her Big 4 experience at Ernst & Young LLP and her corporate law partnership tenure at one of Canada's most prestigious law firms, Bernadette is driven by client success. Formerly a Partner in the Business Law group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, she has extensive experience leading and resolving complex client matters.  

 

Her philosophy of unrelenting excellence to exceed clients' expectations, and to provide extraordinary and value-added solutions, has become integral to service delivery at Talent Matters.  

 

Prior to Talent Matters, Bernadette was a Business Law partner at McCarthy Tétrault where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions in the Banking, Financial Services, Technology, and Capital Markets verticals. 

 

Prior to McCarthy Tétrault, Bernadette was a law associate and tax associate at Ernst & Young.  

 

Bernadette holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Commerce, from the University of Toronto. She went on to attend Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor where she graduated with a degree in law.  She is a lawyer and a member of the Law Society of Ontario. 

 

Bernadette is a graduate of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where she attended the Business Leadership for Women Lawyers Program. She is also completing the Certified Contingent Workforce Professional program with Staffing Industry Analysts, the global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions.