Meet The Team
Mikael Charette
President
Mikael graduated summa cum laude in 2002 from the Faculty of Law at the
University of Ottawa, where he completed a License in Civil Law. He then went on to complete a bachelor’s degree in Common Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Victoria. While studying at the University of Victoria, Mikael was a participant in an exchange program at the University of Oxford, England, where he undertook a rigorous program in International Intellectual Property Law.
He is a certified Quebec lawyer. His education has been an ideal environment in which to develop bilingualism, multiculturalism and bijuralism. These are the foundations of the Canadian system, but also represent facets of the globalized world of today.
Mikael has completed a master’s in law at the City University of Hong Kong with honors, where his research was mainly focused on International, Trade and Chinese Business Law. Coupled with his passion for international relations, law and entrepreneurship, he has a strong commitment to the community. He was a member of the board of directors of Desjardins Bank from 1999 to 2002.
Mr. Charette has a long experience dealing with Asian investors to Canada and has been the Managing-Partner in China of an International Law firm from 2009 to 2015. He collaborated with major law firms and investment funds in Canada, USA and Europe on cross-border transactions, including financing and acquisitions of overseas entities.
Mikael was a lecturer at the Desautel management faculty of McGill University, as well as a lecturer on several forums about China, entrepreneurship and globalization issues. He now leads Well Asia Group as the president and is the COO of WEllfunded Enterprise. He is the director and VP of l’Institut Innovation Gatineau- a regional incubator and accelerator for tech startup. He sits as the director of TC Mining, Frontier Immigration, Cliniques Médicales Multi-Sang-T, LightupAir and Minrail.
Vanessa Nguyen
Vice President
Vanessa obtained a Master of International Business in 2009 and a Master of Accounting and Financial Management in 2011 at Latrobe University in Australia.
After that, she returned to Vietnam to become a Relationship manager in the priority banking department at Hong Leong bank Vietnam in 2012. She also worked for Indovina bank Vietnam from 2013 to 2015 as a Credit analyst in the risk management department. In July 2015, she successfully immigrated to Montreal, Canada through the investor immigrant program. She is now a fully licensed Financial advisor and an Investment representative at London Life Insurance and Quadrus Investment Ltd., where she advises her clients on insurance and investment products as well as wealth management. More recently, she joined Well Asia Group as the Vice-President Vietnam. She will advise HNWI in Vietnam on mobility and wealth investment abroad.
Lydia Tensaouti
Talent Acquisition Advisor
Holder of a master's degree in finance and accounting from École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Algiers, Lydia Tensaouti began her professional career as an accountant at Danone for a year. Having always had an interest in entrepreneurship and innovation, she recently obtained her second master's degree in Innovation Management at the École de technologie Supérieure.
Structured and dynamic by nature, she likes to build an atypical profile. Today she holds the position of talent acquisition advisor at Frontier Immigration where the development and influence of the Canadian ecosystem is at the heart of her actions.
Ferdous Ahmed
Vice President
Ferdous is a business development Vice-President for Bangladesh. Ferdous is an accomplished realtor in Toronto. He also runs a successful trade business for 30 years between Canada and Bangladesh. Ferdous is business immigrant himself runs our Bangladesh office since 2018. His responsibility is to improve business for our Bangladesh office, recruit successful and good Caracter businessman interested in coming to Canada with their family. He is the main strategist and makes plan how we improve business between Bangladesh and Canada.