Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 26, 2004

Halvor Jaeger – Lab International Inc (lab:tsx)

DR. HALVOR JAEGER is Chief Executive Officer of LAB International Inc. After receiving an MD degree from the University of Ulm in Germany in 1976, Dr. Jaeger started a scientific career at this university. In 1979, he founded LAB in Germany and, as its CEO, developed it as of one of the principal contract research institutes in Germany. In addition, he lectured on pharmacology for several years. After selling LAB Germany in 1995 to a worldwide provider of pharmaceutical services, he relocated to Canada and took over LAB International Canada. After substantial increase in value, the Phase I/bioanalytical business of the company was sold to a Toronto-based public company in 1998, and the pharmaceutical arm to a French company. At that time LAB Pre-clinical was founded as a new company and taken public in 2002 as a product development company. The aim of the company is to develop products with substantial funds being generated through its service business. Dr. Jaeger has written and/or collaborated on over 100 scientific publications. He acted as Expert Agree for the French Health Authorities in pharmacokinetics. In 1996, he was appointed Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief historical sketch of Lab International

and then a picture of what you are doing at the present time?

Dr. Jaeger: Actually it's a number of companies. I started