QUANTUM EMOTION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Technical Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Professor Reulet is a world leader in researching quantum and non-Gaussian noise. He has participated in multiple investigative projects and has developed innovations in experimental design, in particular devices to measure non-Gaussian noise or quantum noise dynamics. Mr. Reulet is Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Signal Processing at Université de Sherbrooke, Director of the Transdisciplinary Institute for Quantum Information and Co-Director of the International Laboratory on Quantum Circuits and Quantum Materials, in collaboration with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France.
Before moving to Canada, he was the Research Director at CNRS in the Laboratoire de physique des solides at the Université Paris-Sud XI, France. He has also served as professor at the École Polytechnique, and spent four years at the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Director
- President of Baystream
Dr. Moore brings relevant business knowledge and a significant network, developed during his 40-year tenure in the software, semiconductor and cybersecurity industries. Early in his career, Dr. Moore founded ANACAD, which developed software technology for integrated circuit (IC) design. ANACAD's products were adopted globally for their application in IC design and utilized by major corporations such as Daimler, Toshiba, and SGS Thomson. The company was eventually sold to Mentor Graphics.
Dr. Moore is currently President of Baystream, a company specializing in process automation and cloud-based solutions. Recently, Baystream developed automation solutions to deploy security-hardened systems to the Cloud that are focused on availability and compliance, strengthening its process automation offering and its key position in the market.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Director
- Member of the Management Team
- President
Dr. Bellido spent his career overseeing and leading the development of several organizations in the healthcare industry. He brings strong financial management expertise, deep operating and leadership experience and a global business perspective, acquired over 30 years of international business in biosciences, healthcare and financial industries.
Notably, Dr. Bellido managed a CA$300 million life science investment fund (SGF-Santé) that produced several important and key players in the medical device industry. He has a proven ability to approach technical and scientific issues with a solid business perspective. Dr. Bellido holds a PhD in medical microbiology from the University of Geneva and an MBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Québec at Montreal.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Management Team
- Director of the National Film Board of Canada
- President of LVR Capital Inc
Mr. Rousseau is the President of LVR Capital Inc. He began his professional career with Crédit Ford of Canada, where he acted as Director of Operations. In 2001, he joined the Business Development Bank of Canada as a Senior Business Development Manager, a position he held until LVR Capital was founded in September 2005. LVR is a consultation investment bank providing direct counsel to firms in their financing needs mostly for debt financing. Since 2005 it has been instrumental in providing close to 200M$ to numerous companies as well as being responsible for the restructure and turnaround of several firms. At the same time, he pursued a military career in 1981 to 2004 as an infantry officer with the Canadian Forces. He commanded the Mount Royal Fusilliers Regiment from 1996 to 1999 and served in Bosnia as a Plans and Policy Team Leader at NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo.
Mr Rousseau has been a director of the National Film Board of Canada, of Iscope Corporation and has chaired the board of the Quebec Society for disabled children. He serves on the advising committee of Pilote Groupe Conseil and of RealByFake and counsels other firms for their financial strategies. He is the President of La Fondation Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal and member of Corporate Connections. He holds a Bachelor in arts, Economics, from Concordia University.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Waterfund LLC
Mr. Rickards is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Waterfund LLC, a private investment and financial services company focused on investing in water treatment infrastructure, distribution and logistics. In 2012, he launched Waterfund with the development of the Global Water Cost Index alongside IBM. Prior to founding Waterfund, Mr. Rickards was the Senior Business Development Executive at the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), an agency of the Dubai Government. It was responsible for Dubai Commodity Asset Management, a hedge fund and ETF investment platform licensed by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Rickards began his career in the Commercial Service of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was an analyst in the International Listings division of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Mr. Rickards earned his BA from Columbia University and holds an MA in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Tullio Panarello has served in several senior leadership capacities over the past 25 years in many High-Tech companies from the telecom, military, semiconductor, space, and sensor industries. His technical and market knowledge extends to the fields of lasers, optics, semiconductors, and quantum-based technologies. Tullio is currently Vice President and General Manager at Smiths Interconnect, Montreal, Quebec which acquired ReflexPhotonics, the company where he occupied the position of Executive President. Earlier in his career he worked as Business Development Manager for PerkinElmer Canada before co-founding PyroPhotonics Lasers Inc., a company specialized in pulsed laser technology for material processing applications, of which he became CEO until he sold it to Electro Scientific Industries (ESI). At ESI, he occupied the position of Divisional General Manager for the Laser Business Division.
Wayne Teeple is a Cyber Security Expert with a strong business expertise, which he developed during his 30-year tenure in experience in the telecommunications, information technology/management (IT or IM) and information security systems. Early in his career, he worked in the Canadian Military as a Communications & Electronics Program/Project Management Officer, and later in the Information Technology industry he acquired experience in a wide variety of executive positions.
Wayne Teeple was the founder and CEO of Phirelight Security Solutions Inc., that was acquired in December 2018 by the RHEA Group, a company offering aerospace and security engineering services and technologies. Wayne is currently their Senior Vice President of Sales - Security Services & Solutions. He holds a degree in computer sciences from the University of Ottawa.