Euan Robertson

Euan Robertson has been appointed president and chief operating officer of MaRS Discovery District, a newly created position. Robertson comes to Mars from the New York City Economic Development Corp where he held the positions of executive VP and managing director of its Centre for Economic Transformation. He held a wide range of portfolios including the economic development of key sectors such as life sciences, ICT, cleantech and media. He was also responsible for bringing to the city a $2-billion science and engineering campus in partnership with Cornell Univ and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. At MaRS, Robertson will lead day-to-day operations and oversee the opening of MaRS Phase II, scheduled for this fall….