“The talented CEOs that I have worked with have all stated that they received more value from the CDL program than any other lab they participated in.”

Sally Daub
President & CEO, ViXS Systems
“The talented CEOs that I have worked with have all stated that they received more value from the CDL program than any other lab they participated in.”
Sally Daub
President & CEO, ViXS Systems
Founded at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2012, CDL now operates five sites in Canada, three in the United States, five in Europe, and one in Australia.
CDL-London will be hosted by the Imperial Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship, an Imperial-wide initiative led by the Imperial Business School, working closely with the Imperial Enterprise Lab to deliver the program. Rio Tinto, a leading mining and materials company, is the founding partner of CDL-London, enabling an expansion of the CDL Minerals program.
The new site will host a CDL Advanced Manufacturing program and join the global CDL Space program, positioning Milan as a European engine for science- and technology-based entrepreneurship.