Jean-Marc was born in Montréal and grew up mainly in Québec City as the eldest in a family of six children. He went to College in Chicoutimi and returned to Québec City to attend Laval University.
Jean-Marc has spent all of his working life with the public, for the public.
Initially, he worked in the operations management of various movie theatres with a major exhibitor chain in Québec City, Trois-Rivières and Toronto for seventeen years. The Toronto stint began in 1983 when he accepted an offer to transfer from ‘La Belle Province’ “mainly to learn English”. Eventually he oversaw ten different locations in the GTA.