Management

President and Chief Executive Officer, TBA

René Paulussen, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer
Former Vice President, Applied Technologies at Xanthus Life Sciences Inc.
Dr. Paulussen has over 20 years experience working in many areas of laboratory and scientific business management in the biopharmaceutical industry, where his responsibilities have included laboratory design and organization, improving operational efficiency and setting up quality control standards. Dr. Paulussen has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

Majid Belouchi, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Former Director of Scientific Affairs at Algene Biotechnologies, a gene discovery company, Dr. Belouchi has 25 years experience in genetics and molecular biology and has played a key role in the mapping of genes implicated in common human diseases. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal.
Dr. Belouchi is a founder of Genizon BioSciences. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Montreal.

Henry Bretecher, CMA, MBA, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Former Assistant Vice-President Finance and Accounting at Canadian Pacific Limited where he was jointly responsible for the financial affairs of this highly diversified company, and where he gained extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, and other transactions of a strategic or special nature. Mr. Bretecher is a former director of Canadian Pacific Hotels, Eastern Provincial Airways, and Canada Maritime Limited. He manages the financial, corporate, and legal affairs of the company and has over 30 years of relevant business experience. Mr. Bretecher is a Certified Management Accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto.

Borivoj Stojkovic, M.Sc., Senior Director of Information Technology
Mr. Stojkovic has extensive professional experience in systems architecture, software engineering and high performance computing, specifically for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Since joining Genizon in 2003, Mr. Stojkovic has been instrumental in designing systems for the storage and management of genetic and bioinformatics data and for implementing automated genetic analysis pipelines using the latest high performance computing tools, resources and cloud computing. Mr. Stojkovic obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Science from McGill University specializing in database systems and distributed/parallel computing.

Bruno Paquin, Ph.D., Executive Director, Business Development
Dr. Paquin joined Genizon as Head of the Technology Development Unit in 2000 shortly after the company’s founding. He has been integrally involved in the development of several new technologies and his participation has also been critical to the progress of Genizon’s gene discovery programs. More recently, Dr. Paquin was Director, Science & Technology Liaison where he supported the business development function by giving external scientific presentations. Dr. Paquin obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Université de Montréal and has 20 years of experience in the field of molecular evolution and genetics.