Board of Directors

JACQUES MARCOTTE, Director

Dr. Jacques Marcotte graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1968 and has been licensed by the Ordre des Pharmaciens du Québec since 1969.  He subsequently obtained his Masters in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal in 1971 and a Doctorate  (Ph.D.) in Pharmacology in 1974.  The École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal  granted him a diploma in Management Science in 1973.   Dr. Marcotte earned a law degree from Université Laval in 1986.  He has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 1988.  Dr. Marcotte began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in charge of clinical tests, scientific issues and regulatory affairs, working mainly with Hoffman LaRoche, Laboratoires Pentagone and, more recently, on an international level with Ciba Geigy (Switzerland and United States).  In 1983, he founded Galenica Inc., a firm specializing in the manufacture of medical instruments which he successfully established in close to 60 countries.  This firm was sold to American interests in 1998.  He is a practising lawyer and an expert in toxicology.

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