Mentors

Purang Abolmaesumi

Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering

Scientist

Michael Abramsky

Executive In Residence, MaRS

Associate

Umair Akeel

Product Architect, Twilio Inc.

Associate

Benjamin Alarie

CEO, Blue J Legal

Associate

Milad Alucozai

Head of Life Sciences, BoxOne Ventures

Associate

Dozie Amuzie

Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLABS Canada

Scientist

Chad Anderson

Managing Partner, Space Capital

Associate

Ludovic André

Managing Director, Credit Mutuel Equity

Associate

Anousheh Ansari

CEO, XPRIZE Foundation

Fellow

Sarah Applebaum

Partner, Pangea

Associate

Jehangir Appoo

Founding Partner, AIoT Health

Associate

Ali Ardakani

Founder & Managing Director, Novateur Ventures Inc.

Associate

Buddy Arnheim

General Partner, Lobby Capital

Associate

J. Brant Arseneau

CEO, 9Point8 Capital

Associate

Robert Ashcraft

Senior Manager, Samsung Corp

Associate

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science, University of Toronto

Fellow

Jill Becker

Former Founder and CEO, Cambridge Nanotech Inc. | CEO, Kebotix

Associate

Patrick Bedford

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

Investigator

Liran Belenzon

CEO, BenchSci

Associate

Dawn Bell

Board Director, CEO, Global Pharma Exec

Associate

Marc Bellemare

Staff Research Scientist, Google Research

Scientist

Reni Benjamin

Managing Director, JMP Securities LLC

Scientist

Dennis Bennie

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | Founder & Principal, XDL Capital Group

Associate

Andy Bergmann

Partner, Wessex Capital

Associate

James Bergstra

Lab Scientist - Machine Learning

Scientist

Curtis Berlinguette

Professor, University of British Columbia

Scientist

Dror Berman

Founder, Innovation Endeavors

Fellow

Andrew Beswick

Technology Corporate Broking, Shore Capital Markets

Associate

Gregory Block

Senior Vice President Of Corporate Development, Notch Therapeutics

Associate

Eve Blossom

Founder/CEO, Material Change Institute

Associate

Manon Boisclair

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

Associate

Greg Bonfiglio

Founder & Managing Partner, Proteus LLC.

Associate

Mariel Borowitz

Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Investigator

Francesco Bova

Academic Lead, CDL-Toronto

Economist

James Boyle

Executive Director, Venture Development, Yale Ventures

Associate

Jonathan Bramson

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

Scientist

Ronald Bridges

Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary

Associate

Allison Brown

Executive Director, Medicine By Design

Investigator

Jamie Bruce

Executive Vice President, Canada Health Infoway

Associate

Michael Bucella

Partner, BlockTower Capital

Associate

Ethan Buchman

Co-founder, Cosmos | CEO, Informal Systems

Associate

David Byrd

Principal, Acequia Capital

Associate

Stuart Cain

Associate, Science & Business, adMare BioInnovations

Elizabeth Caley

Co-CEO, Poppy

Associate

Neil Cameron

Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures Inc

Associate

Will Canestaro

Managing Director, WRF Capital

Associate

Christian Catalini

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Lightspark

Associate

Vinod Chandran

Clinician Scientist, University Health Network

Scientist

Austin Che

Founder, Ginkgo BioWorks Inc

Associate

Kelly Chen

Partner, Data Collective VC

Associate

Michelle Chernock

Head of Neuroscience Medical, Novartis Canada

Associate

Iain Christie

CEO and Founder, SideKickSixtyFive Consulting

Associate

Jacques Corbeil

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

Scientist

Jeff Crusey

General Partner, FarPoint

Associate

Mark Cunningham

Founder, Investor & Mentor, Creative Destruction Lab

Associate

Sally Daub

Founder, Pool Global Partners

Fellow

Anthony Davies

Executive Chairman, Dark Horse Consulting

Associate

Timur Davis

Director, Munich Re Ventures

Associate

Chris Deverell

Advisor, Mentor & Coach, Deverell Innovation Ventures Limited

Associate

Eden Dhaliwal

Co-founder, New Order

Associate

Earl Diamond

Board Member, Investor & Consultant

Associate

Gus Domel

Investment Associate, Boost VC

Associate

Henri Douche

Head of Innovation, SCOR

Associate

Imran Eba

Partner, Action Potential Venture Capital

Associate

Jeff Enslin

Managing Member, Perimetre Capital, LLC

Associate

Lauren Epstein

Principal, Epstein Enterprises

Associate

Candice Faktor

Managing Partner, Faktory Ventures

Associate

Beric Farmer

Former Co-Founder, XE

Associate

Haig Farris

President, Fractal Capital

Brandon Farwell

Managing Partner, Xfund

Associate

Josh Felker

Founder and Managing Partner, BoxOne Ventures

Associate

Ben Fine

Radiologist, Clinician Scientist, Trillium Health Partners

Investigator

Joel Finlayson

Partner, iGan Partners | SVP Corporate Development, Think Research

Associate

Debbie Fischer

Executive Associate, KPMG

Associate

Jason Flowerday

Health Tech CEO, Independent

Associate

Chen Fong

Founding Partner, CDL-Rockies | C.M., Co-Founder, Pureweb Inc

Fellow

Ash Fontana

Managing Director, Zetta VP

Associate

Richard Foster

Managing Partner, General Medical Networks

Fellow

Doug Foster

Partner, Advanced Data Sciences LLC

Associate

Thomas Fouquet

Associate Director - Head of NewSpace, CNES

Associate

John Francis

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | Managing Director, Fraser Kearney Capital

Fellow

April Franco

Professor, University of Toronto

Economist

Tom Frohlich

Chief Operating Officer, Chinook Therapeutics

Associate

Anders G Frøseth

Partner, Propagator Ventures

Associate

Joseph Fung

Managing Partner, Saltagen Ventures

Associate

Alberto Galasso

Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management

Economist

Joshua Gans

Chief Economist | Professor, Rotman School of Management

Economist

Ryan Gariepy

CTO and Co-founder, Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors

Associate

Nadeem Ghafoor

CEO, Avalon Space Inc

Associate

Lahav Gil

Founder, Kangaroo Ventures

Associate

Inmar Givoni

Adventurer

Investigator

Godard Godard

Chief Operating Officer, Verge

Associate

Ben Goertzel

CEO, SingularityNet | Chairman, AGI Society

Fellow

Matt Golden

Founder and Managing Partner, Golden Ventures

Associate

Ted Graham

Head of Open Innovation and Principal, General Motors

Associate

Jeff Green

Managing Director, Rusheen Capital Management

Associate

David Greenberg

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

Associate

Jason Greenspan

Former Co-founder and CEO, WHOOSH!

Associate

Simon Grocott

Deputy Director, Missions at the Space Flight Laboratory, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

Scientist

Baris Guzel

Partner, BMW i Ventures

Associate

Amy ter Haar

Lawyer, Integra Ledger

Associate

Carl Haas

Scientist

Chris Hadfield

Astronaut | First Canadian Commander of the International Space Station

Fellow

Gillian Hadfield

Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

Economist

Lu Han

Partner, Lumira Ventures

Associate

James Hardiman

Partner, Data Collective

Associate

Michael Harries

Partner, The Robotics Hub

Associate

Nancy Harrison

Board Member, Knight Therapeutics Inc.

Fellow

Jérémie Hassin

Vice President Of Business Development, MaiaSpace

Associate

Jason Hein

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Scientist

Michael G. Helander

President & CEO, OTI Lumionics

Associate

Sean Hill

Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics

Scientist

Eric Hixon

General Partner, Gideon Hixon Fund

Associate

Jim Horowitz

Senior Manager, Beresford Ventures

Associate

David Hunt

CEO, Ensemble IP

Michael Hyatt

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | Co-Founder and Director, BlueCat Networks Inc.

Fellow

Sam Ifergan

President & CEO, iGan Partners

Associate

Phil Inagaki

Managing Director, Xora Innovation

Associate

Artur Izmaylov

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Scientist

Amritha Jaishankar

Executive Director, Cell and Gene Therapy Center, IQVIA

Scientist

JP James

Chairman & Lead Investor, Hive Financial Systems

Associate

Jacki Jenuth

Partner, Lumira Ventures

Associate

Karim Jessa

Chief Medical Information Officer and Emergency Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children

Scientist

Ryan Johnson

President & CEO, Whipcord Ltd

Associate

Renata Jovanovic

Partner, Lead Energy & Chemicals Consulting Germany, Deloitte's Global Quantum Ambassador

Investigator

Christophe Jurczak

Partner, Quantonation

Associate

Igor Jurisica

Chief Scientist - Computational Biology

Scientist

Bharath Kadaba

Angel Investor, Advisor and Coach

Associate

Zain Kassam

Co-Founder, Finch Therapeutics

Associate

Phil Kaye

Lab Scientist, National Research Council of Canada

Scientist

Dina Kazzaz

Vice President of Global Business Development, Planet

Associate

Gareth Keane

Partner, Promus Ventures

Associate

Andra Keay

Founder & Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Associate

Jonathan Kelly

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Scientist

Karin Klein

Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta

Associate

Padma Kodukula

Chief Business Officer, A-Alpha Bio

Investigator

Amy Kruse

General Partner, Prime Movers Lab

Associate

Michael Kuhlmann

CEO, Colony Networks

Associate

Nathan Kundtz

CEO, Rendered.AI | Physicist in Residence, Tectonic

Associate

Tony Lacavera

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | Founder, Globalive Capital

Fellow

Julien Lamamy

Managing Director, Ispace Inc

Associate

Lisa LaMond

Founder and Former VP Sales Corporate Systems, Sesen Bio Inc

Associate

Allen Lau

Co-founder & Venture Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures

Associate

Eva Lau

Founding and General Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures

Associate

Cynthia Lavoie

President & CIO, CCRM Enterprises

Associate

Paul Lee

Founding Partner, CDL-Vancouver | Managing Partner, Vanedge Capital Partners Ltd

Fellow

Alicia Lenis

Vice President, Chrysalix VC

Associate

Stephen Leonard

Patent Agent/Co-Founder, Qvella

Associate

Jamie Lesser

Managing Director, NewSpace Finance

Associate

Julia Levy

Founder and Director Emerita, QLT

Fellow

Chris Lewicki

Co-Founder and CEO, gravityLab; Space Domain Co-Chair, XPRIZE; Entrepreneur in Residence, Mandala Space Ventures

Associate

Millie Liu

Managing Partner, First Star Ventures

Associate

David Liu

Interventional Radiologist, False Creek Health Centre

Investigator

Tom Livelli

Vice President Life Sciences, Promega Corporation

Associate

David Lowe

Managing Director, AllosteRx Capital

Associate

Phil De Luna

Expert, Sustainability

Associate

Lauren Lyons

Consultant/Founder

Associate

Coppelia Marincovic

Investment Manager North America, Solvay Ventures

Associate

Margarita Marinova

Senior Engineer and Planetary Scientist

Associate

Tony van Marken

Managing Partner and Co-founder, First Ascent Ventures

Associate

Joel Martin

Senior Director, R&D at National Research Council Canada

Scientist

John Martinis

Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fellow

Keith Masback

Principal Consultant, Plum Run LLC

Associate

Tanja Masson-Zwaan

Asst. Professor and Deputy Director, International Institute of Air and Space Law

Investigator

Kory Mathewson

Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind

Scientist

Prashant Matta

Partner, Panache Ventures

Associate

Michael May

President & CEO, Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine

Investigator

Murray McCaig

Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures

Associate

Kristina McElheran

Assistant Professor of Strategy, University of Toronto Scarborough | Digital Fellow, Rotman School of Management

Economist

Jason McFall

CTO, Privitar Ltd

Associate

Alex McIsaac

Partner, Global Founders Capital

Associate

Michael Mealling

General Partner, Starbridge Ventures

Associate

Ricky Mehra

Founder and General Partner, Continuum Health Ventures

Associate

Roger Melko

Scientific Lead, CDL Quantum; Professor, University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Scientist

Laurie Menoud

Partner, At One Ventures

Associate

Mina Mitry

Co-Founder & CEO, Kepler Communications

Alumni Associate, Associate

Kenneth Moch

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

Associate

Luke Moloney

General Partner, SpaceFund Inc

Associate

Luca Del Monte

Head of Commercialisation Department, European Space Agency

Investigator

Jennifer Moody

Head of Innovation Strategy, Cell Therapy, Danaher Corporation

Associate

Jose Morales

Head of the Earth Observation Missions Division, European Space Agency/ESOC

Scientist

Michele Mosca

Professor, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Faculty of Math, University of Waterloo

Scientist

Brian Mosoff

CEO, Ether Capital Corp

Associate

Clay Mowry

Chief Revenue Officer, Voyager Space

Associate

Sam Mugel

CTO, Multiverse Computing

Associate

Pulakesh Mukherjee

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Imperative Science Ventures

Associate

Jan-Maarten Mulder

Founder, Summer Capital

Associate

Ash Munshi

Founder, Pepperdata, Marianas Labs

Associate, Fellow

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

Todd Neville

Director of Digital Health, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Associate

Ken Nickerson

CEO, iBinary LLC

Fellow

Vipan Nikore

Chief Medical Director, TD Bank

Investigator

Corey Nislow

Scientist | Cellular Biology, Genomics

Scientist

Brent Norton

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

Associate

Andrew Nutter

Co-Founder, Gama

Associate

David O’Neill

President, FACIT Inc.

Associate

Loren Padelford

COO, Podium

Associate

Christopher Paige

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

Scientist

William Panenka

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

Scientist

Michael Pangia

Retired CEO, Westmount Park Investments

Associate

Manish Patel

Partner, Highland Capital Partners

Fellow

Deborah Peacock

President, CEO, Peacock Law P.C.

Associate, Fellow

Barney Pell

Angel Investor, VC and Entrepreneur

Fellow

Andrew Pelling

Co-Founder and CTO, Spiderwort; Professor, University of Ottawa

Scientist

Julien Pham

Founder & Managing Partner, 3CC | Third Culture Capital

Associate

Gary Pigeau

Director, Research & Development, Cytiva

Scientist

Donald Plewes

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Associate

Joyce Poon

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Scientist

Robin Quirk

Vice President, Technology Sourcing & Venture Development, CCRM

Associate

Shanti Rao

Consultant

Associate

Aravind Ravichandran

Founder, Tomorrow.io

Associate

Marty Reed

Managing Partner, Evok Innovations

Associate, Fellow

Brock Reeve

CEO and Co-founder, Eos BioInnovation

Scientist

Lally Rementilla

Managing Partner, IP Investments, BDC Capital

Associate

Blake Richards

Assistant Professor, McGill

Scientist

Konstantin Richter

CEO, Blockdaemon

Investigator

John Risley

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | Chairman and CEO, Clearwater Fine Foods Inc.

Fellow

Jessica Robinson

Co-Founder & Partner, Assembly Ventures

Associate

Raphael Roettgen

Founder, E2MC Ventures

Associate

Lewis Rose

Strategic Advisor, Board Director and Investor; Former CEO

Associate

Geordie Rose

Founder, Sanctuary

Fellow

Laura Rosella

Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Scientist

Luca Rossetini

CEO, D-Orbit

Associate

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Scientist

Tekin Salimi

Founder, dao5

Associate

Kausar Samli

Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Genome British Columbia

Investigator

Barry Sanders

Scientific Director, Quantum City

Scientist

J. Paul Santerre

Scientist | Professor, Ted Rogers Heart Res. Centre and Dir. of the Health Innovation Hub

Scientist

George Savage

President, Windmill Partners

Associate

Brice Scheschuk

Managing Partner, Globalive Capital Inc.

Associate

Jessy Kate Schingler

Director Policy and Governance, Open Lunar Foundation

Associate

Joshua Schrier

Professor, Fordham University

Scientist

Michael Sefton

Professor, University of Toronto

Scientist

Allison Sekuler

President & Chief Scientist, Baycrest

Scientist

Nick Shah

Head of Quantitative Biology, Nura Bio

Associate

Lisa Shields

Founder and CEO, FI.SPAN

Fellow

Ashmeet Sidana

Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital

Associate

Bruce Simpson

Partner Emeritus - Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Investigator

Doug Sinclair

Engineering Fellow, Rocket Lab

Associate

James Slifierz

Co-Founder & CEO, SkyWatch

Associate

Andrea Sotak

Senior Advisor, DRI Capital

Associate

Connor Spelliscy

Co-founder, DAO Research Collective

Associate

Bharat Srinivasa

Co-founder and Principal, Amplitude Ventures

Associate

Duncan Stewart

Lab Scientist, BDC

Scientist

Jamie Stiff

Managing Director, Genesys Capital

Associate

Brooke Stokes

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Associate

Scott Stornetta

Chief Scientist and Partner, Yugen Partners LLC

Fellow

Benji Sucher

Investor, Meta Investments Inc

Associate

Lorne Sugarman

CEO, Iocaste Ventures Inc

Associate

Hyuk-Jeen Suh

General Partner, SkyRiver Ventures

Associate

Colleen Sullivan

Co-founder, CMT Digital

Associate

Graham Taylor

Lab Scientist - Machine Learning

Scientist

Ali Tehrani

Venture Partner, Amplitude Ventures

Fellow

Jordan Thomson

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Programs, Ontario Genomics Institute

Scientist

Jeff Thornburg

Founder & CEO, Interstellar Technologies

Associate

Allyson Tighe

Co-Founder and Investor, Amplitude Ventures

Associate

Richard Titus

Managing Partner, OGVC

Fellow

Laura Todd

Head of Space Exploration Future Programmes, Airbus Defence and Space

Associate

Christine Tovee

Chief Technology Officer - Wyvern, CATx Technology

Fellow

Panagiotis Tsiotras

David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech

Scientist

Michael Tymianski

CEO, NoNo Inc. & Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, University Health Network

Scientist

Michael Ujhelyi

Medical Director and Adjunct Professor, Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research, University of Florida

Investigator

Michael Underhill

Biomedical Engineering, Regenerative Therapies

Scientist

Iliana Oris Valiente

Managing Director & Canada Innovation Lead, Accenture

Associate

Phil Vanek

CTO & Partner, Gamma Biosciences

Associate

Guido Vingione

Director Business Development - Space, Europe, SERCO

Associate

Jean-Luc Vuillemin

Executive Vice President International Networks, Orange

Associate

Neil Wainwright

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

Associate

Chris Wake

Founder & Investor, Atypical Ventures

Associate

Tarek Waked

Founding Partner, Type One Ventures

Associate

Lucy Wang

General Partner, Divergent Capital

Associate

Dan Wattier

Biotech Entrepreneur

Associate

Boris Wertz

Founder, Version One Ventures

Associate

George Whitesides

Chairman, Space Advisory Board, Virgin Galactic LLC

Associate

Stephanie Willerth

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

Scientist

Peter Wittek

Founding Academic Director, CDL Quantum Stream

Scientist

Harold Wodlinger

President, Wodlinger Consulting

Associate

Jonathan Yeh

Co-Founder and Partner, Saisei Ventures

Associate

Ozge Yeloglu

VP Advanced Analytics, CIBC

Associate

Xiaoming Yin

Investment Manager, Lockheed Martin Ventures

Associate

Peter Zandstra

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

Scientist

Shivon Zilis

Project Director, Office of the CEO, Neuralink

Fellow

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.