News
Please find below a complete list of recent events and news from Metamaterial Technologies Inc.
Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI), announced today, April 14, the appointment of Cindy Roberts as the new Vice President, Marketing and Communications. She joins the team with over 20 years’ experience in developing regional, national and international strategic marketing and communications initiatives.
Cindy has worked in both the private and public sector, and has worked with leading companies and organizations such as Microsoft Canada, Hill and Knowlton Canada, Shell Canada, The New7Wonders of Nature organization, Swissair and Nova Scotia Business Inc.
We are pleased to have… Read More
Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI), announced today, February 11, the appointment of Mr. Carl Daniels as the new Vice President, Business Development and Sales. Mr. Daniels joins MTI with 20 years of international business experience in the aerospace and Defence sector. Prior to joining MTI, he held executive level positions as the Vice President of Bluedrop Training and Simulation and the General Manager and Vice President of Atlantis Systems. He has been an advocate for the Aerospace and Defence Sector working on the boards of the New Brunswick Aerospace and Defence Association (… Read More
Dartmouth, N.S. – Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) is pleased to welcome Chris Anthony and Mitchell Thompson, who have joined MTI as part of their winter co-op term.
Chris is a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Dalhousie University who joins MTI’s Engineering team for his third co-operative education placement. He was the recipient of the 2008 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award and the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award in 2011.
Assisting with marketing and communications, Mitchell has joined the team as Social Media Strategist for his second co-operative education… Read More
Dartmouth, N.S., – Metamaterial Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce Oshrit Harel has joined the Metamaterial Technologies Inc. Engineering Team as an R&D and Process Engineer.
Mrs. Harel brings over 15 years of experience in Materials R&D and Process Engineering. She worked at Micron Technology, and spent close to ten years at Intel’s Silicon Photonics group in Israel, where she filed two patents in Silicon Photonics technology.
Mrs. Harel specializes in the development of novel optical receivers and transmitters using CMOS (Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor… Read More
Dartmouth, N.S.- Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI) announced today, December 10th, that Mr. Doug Hall has joined its board of directors. Mr. Hall spent 25 years as a managing director of investment banking within the RBC Financial Group. He currently serves as a Board Member at Millar Western Forest Products, Purpose Investments/NexC Partners, Pattern Energy Group, Stanfield’s, and as a member of the Advisory Board of Southwest Properties. He is a past Board Chair of Nova Scotia Business Inc.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Doug to our Board,” said Maurice Guitton,… Read More
Read the lastest article from the EPOCH TIMES on Airbus Pionerring a Solution to Combat Airplane Laser Attacks wtih Lamda Guard:
The problem of random individuals aiming $5 lasers at flying aircraft has become a growing hazard for pilots and a vexing problem that safety experts have been powerless to solve.
A pinhole size beam of light seen at eye-level can be a hazard to any aircraft flying below 11,700 feet, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The small beam converts to a blinding flash that can be multiple feet wide in a cockpit.
Despite government’s and… Read More
Dartmouth, N.S.- Metamaterial Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that Professor Pavel Belov has joined its advisory board. Professor Paul Belov is currently a professor and head of the department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at ITMO University in Russia. He brings extensive experience in optics and engineering. He has a PhD in optics from ITMO University in Russia, and a PhD in radio engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.
“We are honored to have Pavel as a member of our advisory board,” said George Palikaras. “Pavel… Read More
Canadian Trade Commissioner Service accepts Nova Scotian company into the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley
Halifax NS – Metamaterial Technologies Incorporated (MTI), a Nova Scotian early-stage company, will be participating in the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley, this September. MTI will be taking full advantage of the Canadian-run accelerator in order to access global markets and entrepreneurship services.
The Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) only accepts companies they identify to have 3 core characteristics: potential to scale, traction,… Read More
Halifax NS – Shona Nicolle, and Sagar Jha have joined the team at MTI. We are excited to bring on two Fellows from Venture for Canada. Venture for Canada (VFC) selects the top recent graduates in Canada who have shown an aptitude for entrepreneurship and leadership. VFC then connects those graduates to the top start-up companies across the country.
Nicolle and Jha were both selected as two of the top 30 graduates through a competitive 3-stage selection process, which saw over 800 applicants. Venture for Canada identified MTI as one of the top emerging Canadian companies, and established a… Read More
MTI welcomes its newest staff member, Dr. John Cormier, to the position of Director of Engineering. In this role John will oversee all activities relating to the testing and mass manufacturing of the company’s products.
Dr. Cormier is an accomplished entrepreneur and industrial physicist, having personally founded two companies in the last 10 years, Picomole Inc. and Valaista Health Inc. During this time he invented LISA (Laser Infrared Sample Analysis) a groundbreaking gas analysis technology. His achievements as an entrepreneur have led to several notable awards including; Grand… Read More