ABRAM-VILLAGE – Feb. 24, 2023 –  The three finalists of the Francophone Ignition Contest will have to make their well-practiced, seven-minute presentation in front of three judges who are well-versed in entrepreneurship and finance at the competition finals on Thursday, March 2, at the Village musical acadien in Abram-Village. They will also have to answer their probing questions off the top of their heads.

The judges are Alfred Arsenault, chief operating officer of Provincial Credit Union (which has 10 branches), Charlene Doherty, former owner of Chez Char restaurant, and Claus Schmidt, executive director of CBDC Central PEI and co-owner of MaiYa Pearls.