BIOGRAPHY

Raimund Laqua

Founder, Chief Compliance Engineer, Lean Compliance, Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Raimund Laqua is founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance Consulting, Inc. His focus is helping ethical, ambitious companies in highly-regulated, high-risk industries improve the effectiveness of their compliance programs including: safety & security, quality, regulatory and environmental objectives. Raimund is a professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in electrical / computer engineering from McMaster University. He is author of weekly blog articles, and an upcoming book on effective compliance. He speaks regularly on the topics of risk, compliance, and digital transformation. Raimund has consulted across North America for over 25 years applying his technical knowledge and strategic approach to advance critical processes within: oil & gas, energy, pharmaceutical, medical device, government and technology companies. Raimund began his career working for a semiconductor manufacturer in Burlington, Ontario (Gennum). Starting as a test-systems engineer he modernized their production testing and developed an integrated statistical process control (SPC) and quality systems based on Oracle, UNIX and EDM technologies. He later took on the role of managing and directing IT strategy, engineering CAD, along with ERP management systems.