Robert Corriveau has been appointed president of the Canadian Institute of Photonic Innovations (CIPI), a Network of Centres of Excellence established in 1999 at Laval Univ. Corriveau was most recently VP marketing and business development at PhasOptx, a start-up focused on fibre optic connectivity. Between 1995 and 2004 he was senior VP at the National Optics Institute (NOI) in Quebec City. Corriveau joined NOI from Defence Research Establishment Valcartier one of several laboratories at the Department of National Defence. At CIPI he will strengthen the Network’s technology transfer and exploitation of research outcomes….