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Welcome to this week’s Thursday Feature, brought to you by Acetech. In this issue, read about Certn’s new head of North America and the ocean tech firm innovating to fight oil spills. Have a great day. We’ll see you again on Sunday.

Certn looks east for its new head of North America

As background screening tech company Certn expands internationally, it needs to appoint executives to lead regional areas. To that end, it hired Torontonian Laura Main as the managing director of North America.

In this role, she will oversee operations and growth across the continent. Main arrived at Certn with over a decade of experience working in leadership roles in the digital media and advertising technology sectors. She joins Certn from Quantcast, where she helped to roll out various platforms and led go-to-market strategy. Prior to that, she was a country manager at Adglow, a social media strategy firm, where she launched the European company's Canadian market and grew its team.

“Laura's technology management expertise will help guide the company as we continue to make our platform stronger, better, faster, and more comprehensive,” said Certn CEO Andrew McLeod.

Certn recently hired a new chief product officer, raised a Series B funding round, and appointed Michael Whittington to the role of managing director for Certn EMEA and Credence Background Services. The firm also was named a LinkedIn top 15 startup in Canada.

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📰 More Victoria innovation news

🌊 Water works: Moran Coastal and Ocean Resources Inc. were named semi-finalists in the federal government’s Impact Canada Oil Spill Response Challenge. As part of the challenge, they’ll receive up $300,000 for their innovation that’s meant to detect and systematically map anomalies, such as oil and other contaminants, through the use of water-based induced polarization.

🧦 Lifestyle design: Victoria e-commerce shop Outway launched Custom Lab on its website. What is it? Custom Lab is sub-brand powered by Outway's product and design team that creates custom-branded socks. The team will create a custom design for free before customers decide if they want to proceed. To try it out, fill out a quick one-minute form on their site and they'll get back to you in one business day. Learn more from CEO Rob Fraser.

🕴️ Tech jobs of the week

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• Manager, IT Infrastructure at North Island College

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