Glenwood Staff
Mario Jardon - Director
I completed both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Chemical Engineering in Laval University (Quebec City, 1998 and 2000, respectively), after which I worked four years as a quality engineer for Shire Biologics, a biopharmaceutical company, today ID Biomedical, in the Quebec City production facility of influenza vaccine.
Those four years meant for me an excellent opportunity to develop important technical skills, along with a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical production environment and the engineering and project management challenges it implies. However, most of all, those years were the occasion to interact with a group of outstanding people and to learn from them many personal and professional qualities.
In 2004, I moved to Vancouver, in order to start a Ph.D. program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, at the Michael Smith Laboratories in UBC, applying this experience on accelerating the development of bioprocesses for pharmaceutical applications.
I enjoy literature, sports (especially ball hockey, badminton and squash) and music (mainly choral music and piano, which I have practiced for several years).
Fr. Fernando Mignone - Chaplain
Fr. Fernando Mignone, the chaplain of Glenwood, was ordained a priest for the Opus Dei Prelature in 1999. He has also been named Catholic Chaplain of Simon Fraser University by Vancouver Archbishop Raymond Roussin. Fr. Fernando is an Argentine-born Canadian who worked in Toronto for television and other media, as a journalist. He has lived in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario and speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.
He studied law and political science, earning two masters (McGill University) and a doctorate (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross). His favorite hobby is to tell jokes.
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