Louis Lamontagne is the CEO and founder of Coris HealthCare Enterprises.  With over 25 years’ of senior management experience, primarily in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, he has led such organizations as Painceptor Pharma Corporation, Neurochem Inc., and the Ottawa Life Sciences Technology Park.

He currently serves on the Boards of GreenCentre Canada as well as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and he has served on the Boards of the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI), Chronogen Inc., and Stempath Inc.

Louis holds a PhD. in Immunology from McMaster University and has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University. He has received various honours, including the BioMedex Genesis Award, the Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship, and the Medical Research Council of Canada Studentship.

Louis’s interest in Algonquin College began when he participated in the College’s “Small World Big Picture” initiative in 2006, and again in 2009.    He was appointed to the Board in 2010 for a two-year term, and will serve on the Audit Committee beginning in September, 2011.