AUDACITY NORTH: BOILERPLATE AND BIOS

SHORT
Audacity North is a not-for-profit MedTech and life sciences hub in York Region, Ontario, co-founded by Keith Loo and Garry Lee. Its Aurora campus is built around Megalab’s accredited testing laboratory, and its Whitchurch-Stouffville campus is in development. Founding academic partners are the Schulich School of Business and YSpace (York University), and the Logan Institute for Rare Disease Research is planned as a separate charity at its centre.

STANDARD
Audacity North is a not-for-profit MedTech and life sciences hub in York Region, Ontario, co-founded by Keith Loo and Garry Lee. Its Aurora campus is built around Megalab’s accredited testing laboratory, a 45,000-square-foot facility offering electromagnetic compatibility, environmental and mechanical, product safety, ingress protection and packaging testing, with a venture studio operating inside the founding partnership. A campus on 86 acres in Whitchurch-Stouffville is in development, with a concept plan of seven buildings, and programming begins in Aurora in 2027. The hub is a partnership with the Schulich School of Business and YSpace (York University). The Logan Institute for Rare Disease Research is planned as a separate charity at the centre of the hub.

KEITH LOO, SHORT
Keith Loo is co-founder and Executive Director of Audacity North. He spent more than twenty-five years building enterprise technology at companies including Microsoft and IBM, then turned to medical technology as co-founder and CEO of Skinopathy. He is Vice Chair of the Aurora Economic Development Corporation and chairs the York Region Innovation Leadership Group.

KEITH LOO, FULL
Keith Loo is co-founder and Executive Director of Audacity North. He has spent more than twenty-five years in enterprise technology, at Microsoft, IBM and Logitech among others, and holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. He is co-founder and CEO of Skinopathy, a Canadian medical AI company, and has built medical technology in Canada and knows how hard it is to do here. Audacity North is his answer to that. Keith is Vice Chair of the Aurora Economic Development Corporation, chairs the York Region Innovation Leadership Group, and sits on the Schulich Tech MBA advisory committee. In 2026 he received York University’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Alumni Award and the Schulich Alumni Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He lives in Aurora.

GARRY LEE, SHORT
Garry Lee, P.Eng, is co-founder of Audacity North and President and CEO of Megalab, the accredited testing laboratory in Aurora that anchors the hub. He brings the working lab, and the 86 acres Megalab has purchased in Whitchurch-Stouffville, to the hub.

GARRY LEE, FULL
Garry Lee, P.Eng, is co-founder of Audacity North and President and CEO of Megalab, the accredited testing laboratory in Aurora that anchors the hub. Megalab, which he co-founded, tests products for companies across Canada and worldwide, covering electromagnetic compatibility, environmental and mechanical, product safety, ingress protection and packaging. Garry brings the working lab, and the 86 acres Megalab has purchased in Whitchurch-Stouffville for the campus, to Audacity North. He lives in Whitchurch-Stouffville.

MEDIA CONTACT
Keith Loo, Co-founder
keith@audacitynorth.ca
