Mentors

Andrea Abrahams

Corporate Net Zero & ESG Implementation, Talula Capital & Environmental Consulting

Associate

Hadi Abulrub

Programme Director, University of Bristol

Scientist

Chris Adelsbach

Managing Partner, Outrun Ventures

Associate

Ekaterina Almasque

General Partner, OpenOcean

Associate

Milad Alucozai

Head of Life Sciences, BoxOne Ventures

Associate

Dozie Amuzie

Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS Canada

Scientist

Jehangir Appoo

Founding Partner, AIoT Health

Associate, Scientist

Abel Archundia

Managing Director, Istari Global

Associate

Ali Ardakani

Founder & Managing Director, Novateur Ventures Inc.

Associate

Karan Arora

Senior Vice President Marketing, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics (A Danaher Company)

Associate

Karen Bach

Chair of Tech Businesses

Associate

Paul Bate

Founder and CIO, Matterhorn Investment Management Group

Associate

Patrick Bedford

Managing Director at weCANreg Consulting Group, Inc & VP, Regulatory Strategy at Artisan Biotechnologies

Investigator

Dawn Bell

Global Development Head, Strategic Partnerships, Novartis

Associate

Reni Benjamin

Managing Director, JMP Securities LLC

Scientist

Jeroen Bergmann

Professor, Oxford Biodesign

Scientist

Diana Biggs

Partner, 1k(x)

Associate

Gregory Block

Senior Vice President Of Corporate Development, Notch Therapeutics

Associate

Manon Boisclair

CEO & Founder, InnovID B2; MS, MBA, ICD.D

Associate

Greg Bonfiglio

Founder & Managing Partner, Proteus LLC.

Associate

Jonathan Bramson

Vice Dean, Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences; Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University

Scientist

Allison Brown

Executive Director, Medicine By Design

Investigator

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne

Founder, Genius Foods Ltd.

Associate

Nicolas Chapados

VP, Research, ServiceNow

Associate

Eliot Charles

Venture Partner, MiroBio

Associate

Leonid Chindelevitch

Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London

Scientist

Chrys Chrysanthou

Partner, Kindred Capital

Associate

Adrien Cohen

Cofounder and President, Tractable

Associate

Will Coleman

Founding Partner, Regen Ventures

Associate

Sonia Contera

Professor in Biological Physics and Nanomedicine, University of Oxford

Scientist

Jacques Corbeil

Canada Research Chair in Medical Genomics; Big Data Research Centre; Institute Intelligence and Data; Department of Molecular Medicine

Scientist

Neil Crabb

CEO, Frontier IP Group PLC

Associate

James Cronin

Technologist | Investor | Advisor

Associate

Anthony Davies

Executive Chairman, Dark Horse Consulting

Associate

Joanne Dewar

Vice Chair, Global Processing Services

Associate

Mark Evans

Partner and LP, Kindred Capital

Associate

Emma Fitzgerald

Former CEO/Independent Director, Puma Energy

Associate

Eliot Forster

CEO, F-star Therapeutics

Associate

Richard Foster

Managing Partner, General Medical Networks

Fellow

Tony de Fougerolles

CEO, Evox Therapeutics

Associate

Isabel Fox

Co-Managing Partner, Outsized Ventures

Associate

Tom Frohlich

Chief Operating Officer, Chinook Therapeutics

Associate

Karl Massey FRSA

Senior Board Advisor, Serendipity Capital

Associate

Andrew Gilbert

Director, Gildrew Limited

Associate

Beverley Gower-Jones

Founder and Managing Partner, Clean Growth Fund

Associate

David Greenberg

President, D. Dave HealthCare Solutions; Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Associate

Christoph Gugelmann

Founder & CEO, TradeTeq Limited

Associate

Irina Haivas

Principal, Atomico

Associate

Lu Han

Partner, Lumira Ventures

Associate

Elly Hardwick

Former Chief Digital Officer, UBS

Associate

Nancy Harrison

Board Member, Knight Therapeutics Inc.

Fellow

Mark Hartney

Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Associate

Sven Heiligtag

Ex Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Associate

Karl Moritz Hermann

Founder and CEO, Saiga

Investigator, Scientist

Louise Hill

Co-founder and COO, Gohenry Ltd

Associate

Bruno Holthof

Partner, EQT Health Economics Fund

Associate

Nick Ibery

Partner, NLC Ventures

Associate

Raif Jacobs

Partner, iNovia Capital

Associate

Amritha Jaishankar

Executive Director, Cell and Gene Therapy Center, IQVIA

Scientist

Marco Janezic

Founder and Managing Partner, Blue Ribbon Partners

Associate

Danuta Jeziorska

CEO & Founder, Nucleome Therapeutics Limited

Associate

Declan Jones

VP & Head of External Innovation, Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Associate

Robert Jordan

Investment Director, Direct Equity, CDC Group

Associate

Zain Kassam

Co-Founder, Finch Therapeutics

Associate

Dennis Kavelman

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | Kavelman-Fonn Foundation | General Partner, Inovia Capital

Reza Khorshidi

Chief Scientist, AIG

Scientist

Rik Kirkland

Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Associate

Ann Kramer

CEO, The Electrospinning Company

Associate

Laurence Krieger

Advisor, Tide

Associate

Edward Krubasik

Chairman, Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence

Associate

Lisa LaMond

Founder and Former VP Sales Corporate Systems, Sesen Bio Inc

Associate

Cynthia Lavoie

President & CIO, CCRM Enterprises

Associate

Julia Levy

Founder and Director Emerita, QLT

Fellow

Tom Livelli

Vice President Life Sciences, Promega Corporation

Associate

James Lochrie

Founder & Managing Partner, Thin Air Labs

Associate

William Lorenz

COO, Dapio (Paymob Smart Payments)

Associate

David Lowe

Managing Director, AllosteRx Capital

Associate

Srin Madipalli

Founder/Investor, Airbnb

Associate

Chris Mairs

Chairman, Undo Carbon Ltd

Associate

Bill Marino

Principal Product Manager, Stability AI

Associate

Michael Mashkautsan

General Partner, LocalGlobe

Associate

Peter Mather

Chair, bp Europe; Chair, Two Magnolias; NED at BEIS; SID at Net Zero Technology Centre

Associate

Kelly Mathieson

Chief Client Experience Officer, Digital Asset

Associate

Michael May

President & CEO, Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine

Investigator

Murray McCaig

Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures

Associate

Ian McCubbin

Chair, Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult

Associate

Ricky Mehra

Founder and General Partner, Continuum Health Ventures

Associate

Osnat Michaeli

Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, InFarm

Associate

Kenneth Moch

Senior Advisor, Center for Global Health Innovation and Global Health Crisis Coordination Center

Associate

Jennifer Moody

Head of Innovation Strategy, Cell Therapy, Danaher Corporation

Associate

Bill Murphy

Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin

Scientist

Ray Muzyka

Founding Partner - CDL-Global | CEO & Founder, ThresholdImpact

Fellow

John Nagel

Director of Business Development, Warf Therapeutics

Associate

Paul Newman

Founder, Oxbotica

Scientist

Corey Nislow

Scientist | Cellular Biology, Genomics

Scientist

Brent Norton

Venture Partner, Lumira Ventures | Director, AFMC & Ortho RTI

Associate

Claire Novorol

Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, Ada Health

Associate

Sofia Nunes

Co-Founder, Mambu GmbH

Associate

Christopher Paige

Senior Scientist, UHN; Professor, Medical Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto

Scientist

Maria Palma

Partner, Kindred Capital

Associate

Jeremy Palmer

Senior Partner, Global Co-Leader, QuantumBlack Labs

Associate

William Panenka

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Scientist

Hadyn Parry

Chair, Moa Technology Ltd

Associate

Julien Pham

Founder & Managing Partner, 3CC | Third Culture Capital

Associate

Patrick Pichette

Former CFO, Google; General Partner, iNovia Capital; Former Twitter Board member

Associate, Fellow

Gary Pigeau

Director, Research & Development, Cytiva

Scientist

Victor Prisacariu

Associate Professor in Information Engineering with the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Scientist

Robin Quirk

Vice President, Technology Sourcing & Venture Development, CCRM

Associate

Brock Reeve

CEO and Co-founder, Eos BioInnovation

Scientist

Arndt Roller

Partner and Managing Director, BCG Digital Ventures

Associate

Shefali Roy

Founding Partner, First Look Capital

Associate

Kausar Samli

Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Genome British Columbia

Investigator

Robert Sansom

Founder, Cambridge Angels

Associate

George Savage

President, Windmill Partners

Associate

Hilal Koc Savci

Advisor, Investor & Board Member; Global Product Privacy Lead, Meta

Associate

Øyvind Schanke

Chief Investment Officer, TDVeen

Associate

William (Bill) Schnoor

Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP

Associate

Vreni Schoenenberger

Global Head of External Affairs and Partnerships, Novartis

Associate

Michael Sefton

Professor, University of Toronto

Scientist

Aiga Senftleben

Co-Founder, Billie GmbH

Associate

Nick Shah

Head of Quantitative Biology, Nura Bio

Associate

Kjell Skappel

CEO, TD Veen AS

Associate

Jeff Smith

President & CEO, DCBank

Associate

Andrea Sotak

Senior Advisor, DRI Capital

Associate

John Spindler

CEO, Capital Enterprise

Associate

Bharat Srinivasa

Co-founder and Principal, Amplitude Ventures

Associate

Susanne Stuffers

Healthcare Investor, TD Veen

Associate

Lukasz Szpruch

Researcher, Alan Turing Institute

Scientist

Ali Tehrani

Venture Partner, Amplitude Ventures

Fellow

Andrew Thompson

Managing Director, Spring Ridge Ventures

Associate

Allyson Tighe

Co-Founder and Investor, Amplitude Ventures

Associate, Investigator

Lawrence Tomlinson

Chairman, LNT Group

Associate

Nigel Toon

CEO, Graphcore

Associate

Steve Turley

CEO, Perpetuum

Associate

Guy Turner

Senior Partner, Trove Research

Associate

Stephan Uhrenbacher

Founder, Sustainable Aero Lab

Associate

Michael Underhill

Biomedical Engineering, Regenerative Therapies

Scientist

Phil Vanek

CTO & Partner, Gamma Biosciences

Associate

Sam Vinko

Associate Professor of High Energy Density Physics, University of Oxford

Scientist

Neil Wainwright

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | CEO and Founder, UpHabit

Associate

Jane Walerud

Partner, Walerud Ventures

Associate

Sally Walker

Founding Partner, Human Digital Thinking

Associate

Dan Wattier

Biotech Entrepreneur

Associate

Matthew White

Chief Commercialisation Officer, Frontier IP Group PLC

Associate

Stephanie Willerth

Professor and Canada Research Chair; C.E.O. Axolotl Biosciences

Scientist

Michael Wilshire

Investor and Advisor

Associate

Jonathan Yeh

Co-Founder and Partner, Saisei Ventures

Associate

Peter Zandstra

Founding Director, University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering; Director, Michael Smith Laboratories

Scientist

Ben Ziff

Managing Director, Town Centre Securities PLC

Associate

Stefan Zohren

Associate Professor in Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford

Scientist

Claudia Zylberberg

Founder & Executive Chair, Akron Biotech

Associate

CDL mentors include accomplished entrepreneurs, experienced operators, and active angel and venture investors. Mentors meet ventures every eight weeks at each site to help founders set objectives over the program’s nine-month duration.