{"id":56358,"date":"2026-01-20T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56358"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:38:53","slug":"bob-de-wit","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/profile\/bob-de-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob de Wit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bob de Wit joined the Research and Clinical Advisory Council and Parkinson Advisory Council to provide lived experience, offer guidance and provide a bridge between the Parkinson\u2019s and research communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s in 2014 and recently retired as a CEO, Bob\u2019s career began in university technology transfer then, transformed by entrepreneurship, evolved into angel investing. He hopes to leverage his experience with university technology transfer to help with ensuring new knowledge supported by Parkinson Canada is translated to the patient and the larger community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob has served on numerous boards and advisory councils of private and public companies as well as societies and foundations. He holds a BBA in Marketing and an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and lives in British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob de Wit a rejoint le Conseil consultatif pour la recherche et les soins cliniques et le Conseil consultatif pour la maladie de Parkinson afin d\u2019apporter son exp\u00e9rience v\u00e9cue, d\u2019offrir des conseils et de servir de pont entre les communaut\u00e9s de la maladie de Parkinson et de la recherche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diagnostiqu\u00e9 avec la maladie de Parkinson en 2014 et r\u00e9cemment retrait\u00e9 en tant que PDG, Bob a commenc\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re dans le transfert de technologie universitaire puis, transform\u00e9 par l\u2019esprit d\u2019entreprise, a \u00e9volu\u00e9 vers l\u2019investissement providentiel. Il esp\u00e8re tirer parti de son exp\u00e9rience en transfert de technologie universitaire pour s\u2019assurer que les nouvelles connaissances appuy\u00e9es par Parkinson Canada sont mises \u00e0 la disposition des patients et de la collectivit\u00e9 dans son ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob a si\u00e9g\u00e9 \u00e0 de nombreux conseils d\u2019administration et conseils consultatifs d\u2019entreprises priv\u00e9es et publiques, ainsi que de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s et de fondations. Il est titulaire d\u2019un BBA en marketing et d\u2019une ma\u00eetrise en \u00e9conomie de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Simon Fraser et vit en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"template":"","class_list":["post-56358","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56360,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56358\/revisions\/56360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}