Where are they now: 2021 Top 50 CEO Hall of Famer Pat Whalen

Posted on September 02, 2025 | By Alec Bruce | 0 Comments

 

2021 Top 50 CEO Hall of Fame Inductee, Pat Whalen (Submitted photo)

Pat Whalen

CEO, LuminUltra (Fredericton, N.B.)
2021 Top 50 CEO Hall of Fame Inductee


Pat Whalen is not a man you catch standing still. If he’s not in the air between Fredericton and Frankfurt or somewhere in middle America, he’s sketching the next five years on the back of a napkin, thinking about how a Canadian diagnostics company—tucked into the heart of New Brunswick—can stay two moves ahead of a market that never sits down.

“I’m still president and CEO of LuminUltra, which continues to be headquartered in Fredericton,” Whalen said. “Back in the old days, I was kind of deep in the weeds on a lot of different things. Nowadays, I’m mostly focused on examining markets and forming strategic plans for where we plan to go next year, five years, 10 years out. Doing a lot of M&A work… and a fair bit of international travel.”

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