Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 28, 2002

Micheline Bouchard – Art Advanced Research Technologies Inc (ara:tse)

MICHELINE BOUCHARD is President and Chief Executive Officer of ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. For the past 25 years, Ms. Bouchard has acquired extensive experience in the information technology, communications and engineering fields. Ms. Bouchard held until recently a management position at the head office of Motorola, Inc. located in Chicago. In this capacity, she led worldwide operations for Motorola's Wireless Internet Data Solutions operations. From 1998 to 2000, she acted as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Motorola Canada Limited, a company generating in 2000 more than US$1.6 billion in sales. Prior to 1998, she held numerous positions such as Vice President, Business Development Canada for Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.; Vice President, Business Development, and Vice President, Marketing for DMR Group, a major information technology consulting firm (IT); and Vice President, Management Consulting Services at CGI Group, also an IT consulting and system integration firm. Ms. Bouchard began her career at Hydro- Qubec, where she held a number of senior management positions. She was responsible for marketing and sales to large industrial customers and acted as Assistant to the President and Chief Executive Officer, and Assistant Vice President, Communications. Ms. Bouchard was President of the Order of Engineers of Qubec for two years; President of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, an organization that represents over 180,000 engineers in Canada (1992-1993) and President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a very distinguished organization representing 250 prominent Canadian engineers (2001). Ms. Bouchard holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics Engineering and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montral. Profile
TWST: Please start us off with a short introduction to ART

Advanced Research Technologies Inc.

Ms. Bouchard: ART is in the field of optical imaging in the

biomedical sector. ART's SoftScan'