Life Sciences Stream Stream Speaker

Jack Grushcow
Founder, President and CEO
Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc.

Jack Grushcow is a founder, President and CEO of Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc. The mission of Linnaeus is to create value-added, renewable, biodegradable industrial oils in temperate climate oil seed crops. These new oils represent alternatives to current petrochemicals and reduce the refining expense and pollution that often accompanies them. In the future Linnaeus expects to engineer completely novel oils which will form the basis of the next century's exciting new materials, including specialty plastics, nylons, lubricants and non-polluting fuels. Jack Grushcow was the founder and CEO of Consumers Software Inc., one of Canada's largest software companies. The company was acquired by Microsoft in 1991, in what was then the largest transaction of its kind. The technology developed by Consumers Software provides the underpinnings of the Microsoft Mail family of products including MS Outlook. Jack Grushcow served on the Science Council of British Columbia from 1991-1993. He was selected as one of British Columbia's top business people under the age of 40 by B.C. Business Magazine and has been awarded Canada's top export development award. Jack became the Vice Chair for BC BioProducts Association in November, 2004.