{"id":5246,"date":"2024-11-11T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2024-11-11T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:38:51","slug":"new-hire-xavier-linker-new-director-of-strategic-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/news-and-events\/new-hire-xavier-linker-new-director-of-strategic-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"New hire Xavier Linker, new Director of Strategic Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are thrilled to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/about\/team\/xavier-linker\/\">Xavier Linker<\/a>, our new Director of Strategic Initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xavier brings a dual background in science and management, with an engineering degree in biochemical engineering complemented by a Specialized Master\u2019s in Biotechnology Management. He began his career in business development, holding various roles within preclinical contract research organizations in France and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xavier then spent nearly six years in the innovation ecosystem, working as a program and major initiatives coordinator at TransMedTech. Previously, he contributed to the founding and led Neurosphere, McGill University\u2019s neuroscience innovation accelerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are delighted to have Xavier join us, confident that his expertise and dedication will be major assets in advancing CQDM&#8217;s mission and our AReNA project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to welcome Xavier Linker, our new Director of Strategic Initiatives. Xavier brings a dual background in science and management, with an engineering degree in biochemical engineering complemented by a Specialized Master\u2019s in Biotechnology Management. He began his career in business development, holding various roles within preclinical contract research organizations in France and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqdm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}