ABOUT

DR. BARB KINNAIRD

North America, Europe

Proven CEO and industry expert Dr. Barb Kinnaird helps companies bridge the gap between innovation and profitability. Barb is the owner of QuantumEdge Advisors, a company that provides coaching for CEOs and their leadership teams to build out a focused strategy and associated detailed plan that the team across the company can easily implement and incorporate into their day to day decisions. With over 20 years in leadership roles primarily in health, Barb is passionate about guiding leaders through transitions by focusing on organizational mindsets and product market fit to elevate and grow company value.

• Strategic coaching for CEOs and their leadership teams
• Facilitation of strategy building and planning
• Leadership transition coaching

• Development of leadership skills
• Product market fit to ensure successful commercialization
• Manufacturing and scale up

    INDUSTRIES

• Health Care
• High Tech
• Regulated industries

• PhD
• Board Governance certification
• Certified Business Coach

Barb has served as Chief Executive Officer of Response Biomedical Corporation since 2015. Through her leadership, Response Biomedical has transformed and expanded from a niche market into a global acute care diagnostics leader, expanding product availability worldwide to improve patient outcomes and support decentralization of diagnostic testing. A patent-holder and author of numerous academic publications, Dr. Kinnaird is an active leader in the global medical diagnostic community and a sought-after mentor to fellow CEOs.

As a scientist that fast tracked to CEO, she has a clear and empathetic understanding of the transition from individual contributor to level 5 leader. This also allowed to develop strategies that ensure leadership considers the individual when executing on a strategic plan empowering all team members in a Company. Barb dynamic personality and empowering style allows leadership teams to reach new heights and develop powerful team dynamics that drive better decisions faster.

Barb holds the highest level of certification from the Innovation Governance Program (iGP), a cutting-edge Board Governance program for high growth tech companies. Since 2019, she has served as a Director on the Board of Acetech, a Canadian non-profit organization designed by CEOs to help CEOs grow and scale tech businesses and stimulate the economy through job creation and global expansion. Dr. Kinnaird holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of British Columbia. She conducted her post-doctoral research at the Michael Smith Laboratories in genomics and gene expression profiling, in collaboration with the B.C. Genome Sciences Centre while acting as a consultant for the Proteomics division of Incyte Genomics Inc. She continues to share her expertise in life sciences as an Advisor to several start ups with cutting edge technologies as well as an investment advisor Genome BC (I2 Fund).