Maurice Boucher

Functional Technologies Corp. develops and commercializes proprietary, yeast-based solutions in the food, beverage and healthcare industries. Its technologies include yeasts that prevent and reduce the formation of foul-smelling hydrogen sulphide and carcinogen and acrylamide, both by-products of food and beverage processing. The company was founded by Howard J. Louie and Geoffrey Conrad Lee on October 18, 1999 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Renaissance BioScience Corp. is a bioengineering private company based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company specializes in microbial bioengineering innovation and develop market-ready, functional microorganisms for various industries such as agriculture, food and beverage, health, and energy. Renaissance BioScience's proprietary strain collections, breeding knowledge, fermentation, and screening platforms are used to engineer and deliver unique, scalable solutions for industry and academia. The company's technologies have created products that impact millions of people worldwide, including acrylamide-reducing yeast for safer foods and H2S-preventing wine yeast. More information about the Renaissance group of companies is available on their website. The company was founded by John Husnik and Maurice Boucher, and John Husnik has been the CEO since incorporation.