{"id":57920,"date":"2019-07-02T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=57920"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:35","slug":"carleton-mourns-john-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-mourns-john-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton mourns loss of John Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton mourns loss of John Reid\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton is mourning the loss of a prominent member of the university community, technology leader and alumnus John Reid, who was the president and CEO of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full wp-image-57923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-reid-250w-1.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of John Reid\" class=\"wp-image-57923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/john-reid-250w-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/john-reid-250w-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/john-reid-250w-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Reid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reid had strong connections to Carleton\u2019s Institute for Data Science and Sprott School of Business, which hosted CATA\u2019s annual awards gala for the past five years. Celebrated in the Ottawa Business Journal as the city\u2019s \u201cmost tireless advocate for the tech industry\u201d and remembered for his \u201cunflagging belief in the potential of this country\u2019s entrepreneurs,\u201d Reid earned a master\u2019s degree in International Affairs from Carleton in 1978. He passed away on June 24 at the age of 69 while in Norway on vacation with his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJohn Reid\u2019s untimely death is a major loss to the technology community across the country and to Carleton,\u201d said emeritus professor John ApSimon, a special advisor to the deans of Science and Engineering. \u201cHe has been the energetic and effective leader of the technology advocacy group CATA for what seems like forever. We have lost a wonderful graduate who was an advocate for advanced technology in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton is mourning the loss of a prominent member of the university community, technology leader and alumnus John Reid, who was the president and CEO of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA). Reid had strong connections to Carleton\u2019s Institute for Data Science and Sprott School of Business, which hosted CATA\u2019s annual awards gala for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":57921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57962,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions\/57962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}