POXEL SA (Euronext 鈥 POXEL - FR0012432516), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, today announced the addition of Janice Bourque, Managing Director of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, and Pierre Legault, President and CEO of Nephrogenex Inc, to its Board of Directors. Both appointments were approved by Poxel鈥檚 shareholders at the Annual Shareholder Meeting held in Paris last Friday, January 29, 2016.
There are two different kinds of acquisitions: 鈥榮cale acquisitions鈥 and 鈥榖olt-on acquisitions鈥, and we tend to focus on the latter. We like to buy a technology and 鈥榩lug it in鈥, because our sales force and distribution channel are second to none. The last six deals we鈥檝e done were all about technologies or products that we wanted to own. In these cases, some of the management team stays with us, but we鈥檙e really taking on a new product and adding it to our existing culture.
BeaverTails found success when the Montreal-based company finally decided to embrace the iconic dessert鈥檚 biggest asset 鈥 marketing the decadent hand-stretched sweet pastry made to resemble a beaver鈥檚 tail as a treat for special occasions, rather than positioning it as a food for people to eat every day.
La banque alimentaire bas茅e 脿 Saint-Laurent a un nouveau directeur g茅n茅ral. Richard D. Daneau entrera en fonction chez Moisson Montr茅al le 8 f茅vrier, succ茅dant 脿 Dany Michaud, qui a quitt茅 ses fonctions en octobre.
Titulaire d鈥檜n baccalaur茅at en commerce de l鈥橴niversit茅 McGill et d鈥檜ne ma卯trise en administration de HEC, il cumule pr猫s de 25 ans d鈥檈xp茅rience en gestion des op茅rations et administration dans le domaine des transports, des technologies et des 茅quipements industriels.
Need a card to go with that perfect gift for that special someone this Valentine鈥檚 Day? Do they love chemistry related puns? Then McGill Chemistry Department recent graduate Nick Uhlig has you covered. The Li lab alum has recently made available several charming Valentine鈥檚 Day cards through the online marketplace . 鈥淚 wanted to do it for a long time and kept saving up the ideas, but really only got to it after graduating.鈥 says Uhlig, who now works as a medicinal chemist at Gilead Sciences鈥 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Ann-Sophie Bettez was named CWHL player of the month for January. She is second in the league in scoring right now, behind only Marie-Philip Poulin. Bettez has amassed 125 points in 86 games over the course of her CWHL career, has won three national championships with 香蕉视频 and yet, at 28 years old, hasn't represented her country at the senior level.
Two Desautels alumni 鈥 Rob Fetherstonhaugh, BCom78, DPA 鈥80, and Marc Balevi, BCom 77, DPA 78 鈥 received the Meritorious Service Medal last week from the Governor General.
View the ceremony: , December 11, 2015
During the month of September McGill will host the 14th Annual Pow-Wow (September 18) and the 5th annual Indigenous Awareness Week (September 21-25). 香蕉视频鈥檚 Indigenous Awareness Week is designed to increase awareness at McGill about Indigenous peoples in Canada. The week honours the many Indigenous cultures across the country including First Nations, M茅tis and Inuit.
Steven Pinker was recently interviewed by , host of the CBC Radio show
McGill School of Information Studies alumna April Colosimo (MLIS '05), Liaison Librarian at the Schulich Library of Science and Engineering, has been awarded the McGill Library's 2015 Librarian Excellence Award.
The award recognizes a McGill librarian who has demonstrated excellence in academic librarianship and has shown efforts to improve library services through innovative practice, initiative and resourcefulness.
Heralding significant positive change, the Honourable Paul Davis, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, introduced his first Cabinet at Government House today.
...听Hon. Steve Kent, Member for Mount Pearl North聽
Mr. Kent holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and Certificate in Public Administration from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a Masters degree in Management from 香蕉视频.
At 34, Daniel Schwartz isn鈥檛 exactly a child anymore. But it鈥檚 certainly tempting to label him as some kind of 鈥渨underkind鈥 given his meteoric career trajectory. He was 33 when he landed the top executive job at Burger King.
Cristiane Tinmouth (DPA'87) has agreed to serve as Interim Assistant Vice-Principal, Financial Services 鈥 effective June 2, 2014, following the departure of Albert Caponi.
5N Plus Inc., the leading producer of specialty metal and chemical products, held its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders yesterday in Montreal, Quebec.聽
... Ms. Nathalie Le Prohon (BCom'84) is a professional board member with over 30 years of extensive experience in management and consulting including 20 years in senior executive positions at IBM in Montreal, Qu茅bec City, Toronto and Paris including her last position as Vice President Strategic Outsourcing Sales, IBM Global Services.聽