Olga Pawluczyk is the co-founder and CEO of P&P Optica (PPO), based in Waterloo, Ontario, part of Canada’s largest and fastest-growing tech community. Olga is an expert in medical imaging, with a technical background in systems engineering and deep knowledge of the science of spectroscopy. Under the leadership of Olga and her co-founder, her father Romek Pawluczyk, PPO launched in 2004 as a research company focused on developing high-end spectrometers. Olga assumed full leadership of the company in 2010 and has grown the company from a research-driven organization to focus on commercialization across different industries (oil and gas, space exploration, medical applications). Olga pivoted the company over the past several years to focus exclusively on building quality and safety solutions for the food processing industry. Olga is driven by the opportunity to combine emerging hardware and software technologies to significantly improve the nutritional quality, safety, and sustainability of our food.

Olga participates regularly as an advisory board member in both the meat industry and the Canadian tech sector, with organizations such as the Canadian Food Innovation Network and Bioenterprise. She is an active member of the Meat Institute’s Foreign Materials Committee.

Olga has a BASc (Engineering) from the University of Waterloo; an MSc (Medical BioPhysics) from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.