SARNIA, ONTARIO - Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is a nationally focused not-for-profit business accelerator that provides critical strategic investment, advice, and services to business developers of clean, green and sustainable technologies. In 2015, BIC established the Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation (COMM SCI) initiative, which acts as a hub for the commercialization of sustainable chemistry and bio-based innovation.
With a recent contribution from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), BIC has developed the Ontario Bioindustrial Innovation Network (OBIN). OBIN will continue to support the growth of the Hybrid Chemistry Cluster in Sarnia-Lambton and to enable the launch of a new Sustainable Chemistry Cluster in the Eastern Ontario St. Lawrence Corridor region centred around Brockville and Maitland. BIC is also working to support the development of a second Sustainable Chemistry Cluster in the Niagara Ontario region.
BIC welcomes Meg Scrimgeour as the Manager of Communications and Marketing. Meg holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Development Studies from Dalhousie University, with post-graduate credentials in Communications and Public Relations from Centennial College, and Internet Programming and Database Management from Lambton College.
Meg brings her experience from working in similar roles with Lambton College and Bluewater Health where she supported the development of internal and external online training delivery for faculty, students, and employees at all levels. Additionally, Meg has experience in the entrepreneurship space where she has assisted businesses with website development and digital content creation to support the growth, marketing goals, and scalability of the respective organizations.
The focus of Meg’s role will be to develop and implement communication, marketing and knowledge transfer strategies for BIC, and will establish objectives, plans and specific activities to be pursued in each area. Additionally, Meg will manage the BIC website and social media platforms, while also working to communicate with the media and targeted stakeholders to ensure the project technical knowledge is consumable by the target market.
Sandy Marshall, BIC Executive Director is very pleased to have Meg join the BIC team.
“Meg brings plenty of related experience and energy to the role”, stated Sandy. “I look forward to working with her to build our profile and deliver on BIC’s strategic objectives.”
For more information please contact:
A.J. (Sandy) Marshall Executive Director Bioindustrial Innovation Canada Email: sandym@bincanada.ca Tel: 1.519.402.3441
Or
Meg Jackson Manager of Communications and Marketing
Bioindustrial Innovation Canada
Email: mjackson@bincanada.ca
Tel: 1.226.778.0020 extension 249
About Bioindustrial Innovation Canada:
Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is a nationally focused not-for-profit business accelerator that provides critical strategic investment, advice and services to business developers of clean, green and sustainable technologies. In 2015, BIC established the Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation (COMM SCI) initiative, which acts as a hub for the commercialization of sustainable chemistry and bio-based innovation.
With support from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), BIC has developed the Ontario Bioindustrial Innovation Network (OBIN). OBIN is committed to the growth of the Hybrid Chemistry Cluster in Sarnia-Lambton and to enabling the launch of a new Sustainable Chemistry Cluster in the Eastern Ontario St. Lawrence Corridor region centred around Brockville and Maitland.
BIC further focuses on critical strategic capital investment in SME’s with compelling business plans where innovation in science and engineering can bring about major advances in sustainable chemistry. Sustainable chemistry is playing an important role in the development of solutions to the impacts of climate change, peak oil, energy security, the need for safe water and the use of scarce natural resources. The increasing global demand for green and safer products offers the opportunity to create thousands of new jobs for Canadians.
BIC’s proven approach for clean, green and sustainable chemistry-based companies offers an ideal platform for the investment necessary to advance hybrid chemistry value chains, providing not only regional economic development and job benefits, but access to global markets.
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