Daniel Lalonde 🇬🇧

Position: COO

Categories: Administration

Location: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Healthcare doesn’t need more administrators. It needs people who understand it from the inside out: clinically, operationally, legally, and technologically. That’s the space I’ve spent my career building toward.

I’m the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Red Leaf Wellness Inc., and a former advanced care paramedic. That clinical grounding still shapes how I think about care delivery, and it’s why I take the operational side of a medical practice seriously.

My background spans health informatics, technology commercialization, regulatory compliance, and international health policy. What drives me is the practical end of it: care delivery, real outcomes, and building organizations that last.

At Red Leaf Wellness my work centres on expanding our clinical programs, deepening how technology supports them, building partnerships that extend what we can offer patients across Canada, and growing a team of exceptional clinicians who share our vision. We’re early in what we’re building, and that’s exactly where I want to be.

Previously I served as CEO and Executive Director of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi), leading a global organization working across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and digital health, with governance and regulatory responsibility spanning GDPR, HIPAA, and PIPEDA jurisdictions. That work is a large part of why I care as much as I do about how a clinic handles patient information.

I’m a dual citizen of Canada and Germany.

Education:

Master of Laws (GPLLM) – University of Toronto
Master of Business Administration (MBA) – University of Alberta
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics – Dalhousie University
DIPL – Applied Information Technology, Information Technology Institute
DIPL – Emergency Medical Technician (Paramedic), Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
CERT – Firefighter Level I and II

Licensure:

PMP (inactive), Project Management Institute
ITIL, Axelos Global Best Practice
Lean Greenbelt for Healthcare, Institute of Industrial Engineers