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Appointment of Pierre Lapointe as President and
Chief Executive Officer of FPInnovations
Pointe-Claire, Québec, December 2, 2008 –
FPInnovations is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre Lapointe
to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective
December 1st, 2008. FPInnovations is the result of a merger of the three
main forest sector research institutes (FERIC, Forintek Canada Corp.,
and Paprican) and its partner, the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural
Resources Canada. Mr. Lapointe succeeds Ian de la Roche whose term recently
expired. According to Mr. James Lopez, Chairman of the Board of FPInnovations,
“Through his leadership and great enthusiasm especially demonstrated
over the past years, Ian led the organization with exceptional tact
through an historical merger for Canada’s forest sector. We are
extremely grateful.”
During recent years, Mr. Lapointe headed l’Institut national de
la recherche scientifique (INRS) and managed its integration with l’Institut
Armand-Frappier. He also initiated numerous agreements and partnerships
with the global scientific community while taking an integrated development
approach to international research and training.
Early on in his career, he worked in research and management with various
research teams at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). He was subsequently
appointed Director General of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)
Information and Services Branch, where he created the Québec
Geoscience Center (QGC) as part of a unique partnership between a university
institute (INRS) and a government agency (GSC) a component of NRCan
with offices across Canada, namely Pat Bay, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa,
Québec and Dartmouth.
“The Board of Directors is pleased that Pierre has accepted this
position. It is an accomplishment for FPInnovations to have recruited
the recipient of the 2008 Prix Hommage awarded by the Laval Chamber
of Commerce and Industry,” said Mr. Lopez. The Chamber recently
recognized his exceptional contribution to the economic and scientific
vitality of the region by referring to him as “one of the greatest
architects of Laval’s new economic face.”
About FPInnovations
FPInnovations is a not-for-profit world leader which specializes in
the creation of scientific solutions in support of the Canadian forest
sector’s global competitiveness, and responds to the priority
needs of its industrial and government members. It is ideally positioned
to perform research, to innovate, and to deliver state-of-the-art solutions
for every area of the sector’s value chain,
from forestry operations to consumer and industrial products. Created
from the merger of the three main Canadian forest sector research institutes:
FERIC, Forintek Canada Corp., and Paprican, FPInnovations also provides
technical direction to the Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian
Wood Fibre Centre. FPInnovations’ staff numbers more than 600.
Its research laboratories are
located in Québec City, Montréal, and Vancouver, with
technology transfer offices across Canada.
For information:
Nathalie Guilbault
Corporate Communications Director
514 630-4124
nathalie.guilbault@fpinnovations.ca
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