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

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

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

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

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

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

NeoThermal Energy from Halifax won a $500 Visa gift card at Volta Labs’ Women Taking Over the World with Tech pitching competition on Tuesday. The event saw five early-stage female-led tech companies present at the Volta offices on Barrington street.

The original plan was for the first-place winner to take home a one-year membership to the Centre for Women and Business but before the pitches, it

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

Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa commonly lose 60 per cent of their crop before it gets to market, and that number is way too high for Damilare Odumosu.

The Nigeria native has been a student for the past year in the Masters of Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program at University of New Brunswick. And he’s been using his time in Fredericton to build a company to tackle the problem.

All

Halifax-based Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, and national law firm McInnes Cooper have announced a corporate partnership.

McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. ft. space with a permanent satellite office, making it the first corporate partner in Volta’s community space in the Maritime Centre on Halifax’s Barrington Street.

McInnes Cooper will continue to