Mentors

Jim Baker

President Agri-Food, Cultura Technologies (Volaris Group)

Associate

Simon Barber

Former Head, Asia Pacific Regulatory and Stewardship, Syngenta Seeds, Singapore

Investigator

Douglas Beach

Chair of the Board, Eavor Technologies Inc.

Associate

Mark Blackwell

Partner, Builders VC

Associate

David Bressler

Associate Dean Research and Professor, University of Alberta

Scientist

Keith G. Brown

CEO, Lamont Brown Group

Associate

Jeroen De Buck

Founder and CTO, Creative Protein Solutions

Scientist

Vincent Chahley

Chairman, Phyto Organix

Associate

Sylvain Charlebois

Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab

Scientist

Lingyun Chen

Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Scientist

John Cranfield

Associate Dean, Ontario Agricultural College

Economist

Rhiannon Davies

Managing Partner, Sandpiper Ventures

Associate

Andrea Drager

Partner, Azure Capital Partners

Associate

Graham Drake

Former CEO, Cervus Equipment Corp

Associate

Keith Driver

Partner, Propel Ventures

Associate

Lori Ell

Founder & President, Growing Ideas

Associate

Judy Fairburn

Co-CEO, Fund Managing Partner, The51

Associate, Fellow

Chen Fong

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

Fellow

Art Froehlich

President & CEO, AgriView Inc.

Associate

Michael Gaenzle

Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta

Scientist

Arjun Ganesan

CEO, Ancera Inc

Associate

Gary Haley

Chair, Haley Family Investment Trust

Fellow

Noel Hall

Co-Director, Machall Investments

Guest Fellow

Bettina Hamelin

President and CEO, Ontario Genomics Institute

Associate

Christopher Hannam

President, C&M Management

Associate

Shazan Jabbar

Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII)

Scientist

Rob Jones

President, F3 Solutions LLC

Associate

Wilf Keller

Vice President of Outreach, Agri-Food Innovation Council

Scientist

Heather Koshinksky

CEO, Investigen

Associate

Steve Liang

Founder & CTO, SensorUp

Scientist

Ash Munshi

Founder, Pepperdata, Marianas Labs

Associate, Fellow

Lenore Newman

Director, Food and Agriculture Institute; Canada Research Chair, Food Security and Environment

Scientist

Christopher Paterson

Board Member, Angel Investor - BASF

Associate

Nancy Peters

Owner & Operator, Half Brand Ranching

Associate

Yves Potvin

President, Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

Fellow

Ray Price

CEO, Sunterra Group

Fellow

Barry Sanders

Director of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary

Scientist

Remi Schmaltz

General Partner & Founder, Koan Capital Corp.

Associate

Alison Sunstrum

Founding Partner, CDL-Rockies | Founder, CEO CNSRVX-Inc.

Fellow

James Tansey

Associate Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business and the Founder & Executive Director of Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing (S3i)

Scientist

Chris Theriault

Early Stage Investor & Deep Tech Startup Advisor,

Associate

Tom Urban

Founder, Agribusiness Advisors

Associate

Jennifer Wood

Chair of the Board, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation

Associate