John Oliver is currently President of Maple Leaf Bio-concepts – a consulting form in biotechnology and bio-economy strategies. His current professional interests include: promoting agriculture and its contribution to Canadian society, making consumers and the agricultural industry at large aware of the opportunity the bio-economy represents for the 21st century and recognizing the contribution of science to our well-being and standard of living. He is the Chairman of Flax Canada 2015 Inc., a national initiative to develop flax as Canada's bio-economy crop of the 21st century.

Mr. Oliver was a founding member ad past chairman of the Canadian Animal Health Institute, a founding member of the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (a recipient of the first CAMA life time achievement award) and past chairman of the Crop Protection Institute of Canada (to which he is an honorary life member.) Prior to his current position with Maple Leaf Bio-concepts, Mr. Oliver was President, Dow Elanco Canada Inc., a joint venture between Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly to research, manufacture and market crop protection and biotechnology products.