McGill Chemical Engineering graduates move on to a variety of roles and positions. This is just a small sampling of the illustrious students who have passed through our doors.
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Arts(BEng '93, MEng '96): Stomp Records, a full-service ska-punk-rock-n-roll record label, booking agency and music management company
(BEng'62): Movie producer, his films include Gandhi, Chariots of Fire, A River Runs Through It, Driving Miss Daisy, Grey Owl, Super Mario Brothers, The Killing Fields
Business(BEng ’10, MEng ’11, MBA '15): Managing Director & Team Lead at BMO Financial Group
(B.Eng '01, MBA '05): Vice President of Operations at PolyExpert, which is a polyethylene blown-film Manufacturer
(BEng '99): Founder and CEO of Holocene Advisors, an investment management firm with over $12 billion in assets under management, based in New York City
(BEng '99, MEng '00): CEO and General Partner of S32, a venture capital firm investing in technology such as AI, data and software applications, data infrastructure, and computational biology
(BEng ’01): Managing Director, Global Energy, TD Securities, an investment bank that provides corporate and investment banking and capital market products and services to their clients
(BEng’87): Member of the Board of Directors at Ultra Clean Technology, a developer and supplier of critical subsystems, components, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services, for the semiconductor industry, and Principal at Side People Consulting.
Civil Service(BEng ’07): Lead Investigator with the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
(BEng ’10): Submarine Technical Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy
Engineering(BEng’92): Hydrogen Program Manager at Tetra Tech, working in large-scale hydrogen production
(BEng’92, MEng’94): Managing Director at Hatch Australia and Asia
(BEng’08): Operational Integration Manager at the Canadian Gas Projects TransCanada Corp, focusses on large scale development projects
(BEng'96, MEng'98, PhD'04): Senior Director, External Manufacturing, Verve Therapeutics, acting as Virtual Plant Manager for partners in Verve's manufacturing network
(BEng’07, PhD'12): Global Development Scientist Director at AstraZeneca
(B Eng '06, M Eng 09, MBA '13): Owner and CEO of Leela Eco Spa & SKA Thermal Spa
(BEng’94): Founder and President, Nature’s Touch Frozen Foods, Inc. (Orlando)
(BEng '78, MEng '81, PhD '88): Founder and CEO of Terragon Environmental Technologies
(BEng'83, PhD at MIT)
Founder and CEO of life sciences innovation firm Flagship Pioneering, an enterprise where entrepreneurially-minded scientists invent solutions to challenges facing human health and sustainability. Flagship has developed more than 100 scientific ventures resulting in over $100 billion in aggregate value, thousands of patents and patent applications, and more than 50 drugs in clinical development'
Co-founded biotechnology company Moderna, through his venture capital firm, Flagship Pioneering
Cofounded and helped build over 70 life science and technology startups
Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management from 2000 to 2016, and a lecturer at Harvard Business School until 2020
(BEng’70, MEng’72, PhD’79, MBA '14)
Co-founder and CEO ACDEG Group of companies,
Founded, co-founded or restructured over 30 business ventures/corporations in agri-food, manufacturing, wholesale distribution and clean technologies in North America, Europe and Asia,
Holds 41 patents
(BEng'99, PhD'04)
Professor at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT
Co-founded twelve companies that have raised over $600 million
Over 100 issued or pending national and international patents, some of his inventions include a tissue glue that can seal holes inside a beating heart; targeted therapy for osteoarthritis, Crohn’s disease, and brain disorders; “smart needles” that automatically stop when they reach their target; a nasal spray that neutralizes pathogens; and immunotherapy approaches to annihilate cancer
Author of several books including 'LIT - Life Ignition Tools - Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action’