Brian Guthrie has been appointed Ottawa area manager with Jacques Whitford, a Halifax-based environmental, engineering and management consulting firm. Guthrie leaves the Conference Board of Canada after an 11-year career where he was executive director of the technology and innovation practice. He helped to raise the profile of innovation and commercialization internally and across Canada, overseeing work on international performance measures and commercialization roundtables. Guthrie is a professional engineer with 30 years experience in research, consulting, technology and R&D management and the design and building of energy systems. His new position begins in September....