About Jackie Csonka-Peeren

Jackie has over twenty years of experience leading advanced technology development and commercialization at BioAlliance Consulting, Millenium Biologix, IBM, Celestica and the Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium (ORTC). She was past President and CEO of Segasist Technologies, a medical software company in Toronto, moving this start-up from technology licensing to installation at leading world healthcare centres, including the US National Cancer Institute and Canada’s Princess Margaret Hospital.

Jackie is also the founder of DecisionModel (formerly BioAlliance Consulting), which for 14 years has delivered early-stage Technology strategy and planning services to medical and high-technology ventures, institutions and government. Jackie currently educates entrepreneurs at the Ted Rogers School of Business of Ryerson University and at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, while she pursues her PhD in Management Sciences for entrepreneurship at the University of Waterloo.

An inventor herself, Jackie designed the FID(TM) method of team-based inventive design to facilitate the creative process in others.

She holds an M.B.A. for Science and Technology from Queen’s University, an M.A.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a B.A.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and the Licensing Executive Society (LES), and has been an active member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Jackie is fluently bilingual in English and French. Over the years Jackie has been in print and televised interviews that include BNN and Canadian Business.