{"id":29705,"date":"2026-06-15T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/francoys-labonte-interim-ceo-luqia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:24:06","slug":"francoys-labonte-interim-ceo-luqia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/francoys-labonte-interim-ceo-luqia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7oys Labont\u00e9 Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Luqia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S\u00e9bastien Proulx, Chair of the Board of Directors of Luqia Technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Fran\u00e7oys Labont\u00e9 as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Until now, Mr. Labont\u00e9 served as General Manager of Luqia, where he oversaw all of the organization\u2019s operations. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board of Directors is pleased to entrust this mandate to Fran\u00e7oys Labont\u00e9 and firmly believes that he will successfully continue the development of Luqia Technologies as a driver of industrial innovation serving businesses, while addressing challenges and seizing future opportunities,\u201d said S\u00e9bastien Proulx.<\/p>\n<p>Alain Chandonnet, formerly President of Luqia Technologies, is leaving his position to pursue new professional opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of Luqia\u2019s Board of Directors, I sincerely thank Alain Chandonnet for his leadership and his many contributions to INO, and especially for having successfully led, together with Fran\u00e7oys Labont\u00e9, the integration of INO and CRIM, which resulted in the creation of Luqia Technologies,\u201d added Mr. Proulx.<\/p>\n<p>Luqia continues its work in artificial intelligence, advanced photonics, and quantum technologies by leveraging the complementarity of its expertise and its ability to transform research and development into tangible outcomes for businesses across Quebec and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9bastien Proulx, Chair of the Board of Directors of Luqia Technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Fran\u00e7oys Labont\u00e9 as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Until now, Mr. Labont\u00e9 served as General Manager of Luqia, where he oversaw all of the organization\u2019s operations. \u201cThe Board of Directors is pleased to entrust this mandate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":29701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crim.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}