ABK Taps Michael Mangano as CEO

Halifax-based medical device maker ABK Biomedical has a new President and CEO.

He is Michael J. Mangano, who was already a director of ABK and was recently President and CEO of San Clemente, Calif.-based ReShape Medical. ABK’s previous CEO Bob Abraham, who fully supports the hiring, will remain on the senior management team as Chief Medical Officer.

“In fact, I had asked Mike to join the Board

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BlueLight Expands its Senior Team

BlueLight Analytics, a Halifax-based health tech company, has made three additions to its senior management team to include a new VP of Business Development, VP of Technology and a VP of Product and Marketing.

Theresa Lee, Derek LeBlanc, and Matt Cooper will be filling the roles respectively.

“We have a lot of exciting things on the horizon,” said BlueLight’s CEO JP Fury in a statement.

“We’re

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New App Aids Carers of People with Dementia

Halifax-based DGI Clinical has launched a new app, SymptomGuide Dementia, that allows caregivers to track and manage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

The app allows caregivers to learn about dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, and provides management strategies for dealing with symptoms.

Caregivers can choose those symptoms most important to them and share progress with family and

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Appili Considers Stock Market Listing

Buoyed by positive results in recent clinical trials, Appili Therapeutics is considering a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Halifax-based drug discovery company has been conducting clinical trials on its first drug candidate, ATI-1501, and released a statement today saying the tests produced the results it was hoping for. “It couldn’t have gone any better,” said Vice-President of Drug

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Jobs: WoodsCamp Shows Exit’s Upside

We've written often of the economic gains that take place when companies exit, and Lunenburg-based WoodsCamp Technologies is making the case for us with its job postings. 

We had no new job postings on the Entrevestor Job Board in the past week, so our Jobs of the Week column this week will once again focus on Woodscamp, which has posted four openings on our site. The company in June said it had

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Simpson New CEO of TechImpact

Cathy Simpson, T4G’s current vice-president of people and culture, has been reading Hit Refresh, a new book by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The book is about transformation – both Nadella’s own personal transformation and transformation inside Microsoft – and Simpson is excited to bring this spirit to her new role as CEO at TechImpact.

“I am very passionate about our industry, how we overcome

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Networking is Vital to Female Professionals

Female-focused competitions, programs and funding opportunities are fantastic and necessary ways to encourage women to join tech and business fields. But sometimes all it takes is a quick email blast and a few bottles of wine to get the ball rolling.  

That’s how a recent all-female meet-up came together a few weeks ago in Newfoundland.  

Sarah Murphy, who handles business development for Harbr

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