With more than fifteen years of experience in the music industry, Ariane Charbonneau has worked at Dare to Care Records, One Drop (the Cirque du Soleil foundation) and Opak Media, where she contributed to the development of numerous artists and creators, both English-speaking and French-speaking. She collaborated with Indica Records on two album productions, one of which earned her the Boomerang Award for Best Social Media Strategy. She also possesses extensive experience with media relations and public relations, having worked both in the private public sector.
She then spent seven years at Stingray Musique, where she built a featured monthly French-language channel and launched PausePlay interviews in French, providing increased visibility to French-Canadian artists to 10 million subscribers. At the same time, she led the Stingray Rising Stars program, working with 88 partners across Canada to develop Canadian content.
In 2021, she joined the SPACQ-AE team as manager of labor relations, before taking on the roles of manager of communications, partnerships and community relations. In April 2023, she was appointed Executive director.
Ariane Charbonneau also sits on the boards of Musicaction, MétaMusique and the Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDEC).
