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۲ݮƵ alumna appointed Director of Agri-Food Innovation for Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole

Published: 8 January 2025

This week, Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole announced the appointment of Jade Proulx, BSc(FSc)’12, as Director of Agri-Food Innovation and Project Manager for the Saint-Hyacinthe Agri-Food Innovation Zone. Congratulations to Proulx, who has over ten years of experience in agri-food innovation—and got her start on ۲ݮƵ's Macdonald Campus.

After completing her bachelor's degree in Food Science at ۲ݮƵ, Proulx went on to earn a master's degree in Food Science and Technology from the prestigious College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She has since held a variety of positions in innovation, research, and development teams at various companies in the sector, in Quebec and the United States, and co-founded the technology startup Atlus Inc. in Toronto, which developed a mobile restaurant discovery platform.

“It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome Ms. Proulx to our team. Her academic profile and high-level professional experience allow her to have a strategic vision of both the needs and realities of the food industry in terms of innovation, but also those related to the development and growth of companies in the sector, particularly those of young technological shoots. This allows her to be perfectly aligned with the goals and objectives of the Cité de l'innovation agroalimentaire and the innovation zone project associated with it,” emphasized the general manager of Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole, Karine Guilbault, in

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