Ottawa, ON, November 28, 2008 - Companies in new Ottawa tech sectors such as cleantech and life sciences are taking advantage of the region’s traditional strengths in telecom, optical, and software technologies to build their businesses, according to CEOs from Quadra Solar Corp. and Spartan Bioscience Inc. interviewed on the latest edition of the OCRIRadio.com tech business podcast.
At DNA analyzer company Spartan Bioscience Inc. Founder and CEO Paul Lem said, “We’re very fortunate to be in Ottawa because there are these great optical engineers, high tech executives, who we’ve recruited onto our team at Spartan Bioscience. So all those guys who were at Nortel and JDS – they know what it’s like to fight it out with the big boys. They know what it’s like to build out companies … so we have world class management, world class engineers, and we’re targeting them towards biotechnology.”
The cleantech sector is also benefiting from the Ottawa Region’s deep well of technology and talent. “All this technology in Ottawa can be transferred towards renewable energy. And we are seeing a lot of companies do that. The optical, the software, the mechanical … all that stuff does exist in Ottawa and we are taking that energy and entrepreneurship and channeling that,” said Ra-ed Arab, President and CEO of start-up Quadra Solar Corp.
The November podcast of OCRIRadio.com also includes interviews with Rob Brennan, President and CEO of Triacta Power Technologies Inc., an established smart metering company, and Dave Vicary, President and CEO of Wise Eyes Inc., a start-up specializing in intelligent video indexing software that originated at the University of Ottawa.
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