Bio - Marc Laforce

Marc Laforce, CCIC
Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant

Marc Laforce is one of only a dozen licensed immigration consultants residing in the United States (and one of only two in the state of Texas). He has 20 years of business experience in managing consulting, telecommunications and service provider industries.

After obtaining the required certification from the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC), Mr. Laforce expanded his business to serve Canadian and foreign-based companies with immigration needs. He specializes in providing immigration services to Canadian and foreign-based companies needing to recruit, relocate or repatriate non-Canadian employees from abroad to lead offices and affiliates in Canada.

Mr. Laforce serves a roster of outstanding clients, both large and small. In Canada, he provides consulting services to TIW (Montreal) and Telus (Burnaby). In the United States, Laforce advises AT&T (San Antonio, TX), Level 3 (Los Alamitos, CA), Nextphase (Anaheim, CA) and Northridge Group (Chicago, IL). Overseas, Laforce counsels a diverse clientele that includes China Netcom (Changsha, China), NSGS (Bruges, Belgium), GTS (Monaco), KDDI (Tokyo, Japan), NTT (Tokyo, Japan) and Telenor (Oslo, Norway).

Prior to his present consulting practice, Laforce was Regional Director of Business Development for Telecel International in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this position, he developed and implemented business plans and market strategies for the sub-Saharan African region. Before his position with Telecel, Laforce was Manager of Business Development for Strategy Group of Belgacom in Brussels. He began his career at Teleglobe Canada (now Tata Communications) and advanced to Assistant Vice President in Europe (Frankfurt).

Laforce holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Political Science) from McGill University, Canada’s highest ranking college according to Maclean’s 12th annual survey (2007). He is married and has one daughter.