Sylvain Abitbol
Sylvain Abitbol is an engineer and entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry as CEO of NHC Communications Inc but is best known as an activist in Jewish affairs and was co-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 2007 to 2009. Abitbol graduated from Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1973 with a degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. He was employed by Xerox for six years and received training in telecommunications at the company's training centre in El Segundo, California. Abitbol is a member of Montreal's Sephardic Jewish community and became president of Montreal's Federation CJA in 2004. His family immigrated to Montreal from Morocco after the Six-Day War in 1967. References

Living people
Canadian Jewish Congress
Jewish Canadian activists
20th-century Moroccan Jews
Businesspeople from Montreal
Moroccan expatriates in Canada
Canadian people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Engineers from Quebec
Canadian mechanical engineers
Canadian industrial engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
20th-century Canadian engineers
21st-century Canadian engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)