{"id":14927,"date":"2019-05-14T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/former-sun-life-executive-to-lead-rise-people-expansion-in-quebec\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:47:25","slug":"former-sun-life-executive-to-lead-rise-people-expansion-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/former-sun-life-executive-to-lead-rise-people-expansion-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sun Life executive to lead Rise People expansion in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/media\/photologue\/photos\/photo_web_2338.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Rise People Inc.<\/strong>, a digital HR, payroll and group benefits platform, announced on May 14 the appointment of <strong>Diane Lafontaine<\/strong> as Chief Quebec Officer of Rise, effective May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Lafontaine has more than 25 years of business experience with organizations such as <strong>CBC\/Radio-Canada<\/strong>, <strong>The Canadian Space Agency<\/strong>, and <strong>Sun Life<\/strong> for the last 8 years.<\/p>\n<p>Her role will be to lead the expansion of Rise in Quebec, says the company. &#8220;The growth and development of Quebec is crucial to our strategy\u2026Diane&#8217;s business background and diverse experience in the group benefits and retirement savings space coupled with our one-of-a-kind, fully-integrated people management platform will ensure we offer a first-class digital experience to Quebec businesses,&#8221; said <strong>Faiz Abdulla<\/strong>, founder and CEO at Rise People in an announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Rise and Sun life <a href=\"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/sun-life-financial-announces-strategic-relationship-with-rise-people-inc\/\">entered into a strategic relationship<\/a>. In April, Rise launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/rise-people-launches-integrated-benefits-administration-solution-with-sun-life\/\">integrated benefits administration solution<\/a> built in collaboration with Sun Life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/former-sun-life-executive-to-lead-rise-people-expansion-in-quebec\/\">Read the original article at insurance-journal.ca <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise People Inc., a digital HR, payroll and group benefits platform, announced on May 14 the appointment of Diane Lafontaine as Chief Quebec Officer of Rise, effective May 27. Lafontaine has more than 25&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}