Charles Louis Riopel founded Latitude 45°. Presently, Mr. Riopel is Managing Partner at this company.

He is also on the board of Foundation of Greater Montreal, Women in Mining Canada and Meridian Mining UK Societas (former Non-Executive Chairman) and Member of The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum.

In the past Mr. Riopel was Executive Chairman at Premium Nickel Resources Ltd. Non-Executive Chairman of North American Nickel, Inc. and Chairman for Premium Nickel Resources Corp. (both are subsidiaries of Premium Nickel Resources Ltd.), Senior Investment Director at The Sentient Group (Australia), Senior Investment Director at Sentient Equity Partners SPC, Director-Investments at Société Générale de Financement du Québec and Director of Investments at Investissement Québec.

Charles Louis Riopel received an undergraduate degree from the University of Montréal and an MBA from Université Laval.