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Through our growing national and international network, Strata has established formal relationships with various groups and companies to enhance its offering to clients. Each of the groups listed below has a link to their website which describes the part they can play in our idea to ideal philosophy. Peter Morand and Associates Inc.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Peter Morand, B.Sc., Ph.D. is President of Peter Morand and Associates Inc., a consulting firm that mentors knowledge-based start-up companies and undertakes consulting assignments related to governance, business development, technology management and performance measurement with companies, universities and other R&D organizations in Canada and abroad. His firm has recently completed a report on best practices in university technology transfer for McGill University. Peter was founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Science and Technology Growth Fund Inc., a venture capital fund that invested in early stage advanced technology companies. He is also past President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) where he was responsible for the annual investment of over $600 million in support of university research and the training of scientists and engineers across Canada. Peter has been a Director on the Boards of many corporate and nonprofit organizations, including the Ottawa Hospital, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group and Variation Biotechnology Inc. (a vaccine technology start-up in Ottawa/Gatineau). He is currently a Director on the Boards of Adherex Technologies Inc. ( AHX: TSX, ADH: AMEX, Raleigh, N.C.), the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (Quebec City, Network of Centres of Excellence), OCRI’s Life Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Institute on Governance and a member of the Advisory Board for the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Institute for Biodiagnostics (Winnipeg).
For nearly ten years, both established and start-up technology ventures have profited from the strategic and focused global media and analyst coverage generated for them by inmedia Public Relations Inc., a firm of only-senior counselors with offices in Boston, Glasgow and Ottawa. Products and companies have been successfully launched, young ventures have secured financing, strategic partnerships have been forged, key employees have been recruited and revenue has been earned as a result of the measurable programs designed and implemented by inmedia. At inmedia, your whole story gets told. This means we spend more time learning about your business, your product or service offering, your customers, your marketplace and what influences your customers’ purchasing decisions. We use that detailed knowledge to write the most effective materials and to build relationships with the most influential journalists and analysts in your space, and then we tell your story – your whole story – in a multi-faceted, ongoing program that helps you achieve your business objectives.
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