Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 6, 2002

Marc Paquin – Haemacure Corporation (hae:tse)

MARC PAQUIN founded Haemacure Corporation in 1991 and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since that time. He was Founder, a Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Autologous System, Inc., the first commercial private blood bank to be established in Canada under the licensing authority of the Bureau of Biologics of Health and Welfare Canada. During the period from the company's inception in August 1986 until its sale in January 1989, Mr. Paquin developed the only operating autologous blood bank in Canada. Prior to founding Autologous System, Inc., Mr. Paquin was Vice President and General Manager of Syntex Diagnostic (Canada) Inc. Mr. Paquin was responsible for the initial set-up of the Syntex Biomedical Division of Canada. Mr. Paquin's education is in general health sciences and management at McGill University. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of Haemacure

Corporation and a picture of what the company is doing at the

present time?

Mr. Paquin: Haemacure was founded in 1989 in