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WE-CAN Client Profile: Deanne Bassili is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of myLaminin, a blockchain-enabled secure research data storage, management and sharing platform based in Kingston.

Both Deanne and her business partner Ash Bassili, myLaminin CEO, have extensive global management consulting experience in strategy, technology, operations, and marketing, and having worked in public and private sector organizations their entire careers it was this intersection of interests and skillsets that inspired the two to create myLaminin.

“Sensitive research data security is an important contributor to the progress of science and innovation,” Deanne explains. “The application of blockchain technology in this space delivers security and immutability to support open science and research repeatability objectives. myLaminin is a unique product and service in an important market with national security implications given concerns surrounding foreign actors and the fact that higher education research is the softest target for cybersecurity attacks.”