Mentors

Shawn Abbott

Partner, iNovia Capital

Associate

Purang Abolmaesumi

Chief Scientist | Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging

Scientist

Bill Adams

President, JCove Holdings Limited

Associate

Barry Allen

Serial Founder & Tech CEO, PureWeb Inc.

Associate

David Alston

Co-Founder, TimberTop Adventures

Associate

Susan Anderson

President and CEO, Cannonball Capital Inc.

Fellow

Jehangir Appoo

Founding Partner, AIoT Health

Associate

George Armoyan

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | President, Geosam Capital Inc. | Executive Chair, Clarke Inc.

Fellow

Rob Barbara

Managing Partner, Build Ventures

Associate

Bill Barrett

CEO, Barrett Corporation

Fellow

Douglas Beach

Chair of the Board, Eavor Technologies Inc.

Associate

Laleh Behjat

Professor, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary

Scientist

Cathy Bennett

Partner, Sandpiper Ventures

Associate

Dennis Bennie

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

Associate

Andy Bergmann

Partner, Wessex Capital

Associate

Curtis Berlinguette

Professor, University of British Columbia

Scientist

Christopher Bissonnette

Founding Partner, CDL-Vancouver | Managing Partner, Pallasite Ventures

Fellow

Jonathan Bixby

Co-Founder and Board Member, Stanley Park Ventures

Associate

Hannes Blum

Venture Partner, Acton Capital

Associate

Manon Boisclair

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

Associate

Jeff Booth

Entrepreneur and Author of The Price of Tomorrow

Fellow

James Brander

Scientist | Economics, International Trade, Finance

Scientist

Ronald Bridges

Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary

Associate

David Byrd

Principal, Acequia Capital

Associate

Elizabeth Caley

Co-CEO, Poppy

Associate

Neil Cameron

Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures Inc

Associate

Kevin Campbell

Founding Partner, CDL-Rockies | Former CEO, Policy Works

Associate

Kyle Campbell

Founder, CTO.ai

Associate, Investigator

Elizabeth Cannon

President Emerita, University of Calgary

Fellow

Vincent Chahley

Chairman, Phyto Organix

Associate

Chère Chapman

CEO, Ardea Outcomes

Associate

Kelly Chen

Partner, Data Collective VC

Associate

Shuo Chen

General Partner, IOVC

Associate

Marcia Clark

Scientist | Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, Simulation in Healthcare

Scientist

Fraser Clarke

President & CEO, Massage Addict

Associate

Don Clow

President & CEO, Crombie REIT

Associate

Taylor Cooper

Investigator | Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, Robotics

Investigator

Mark Cunningham

Advisor, StudioMaC

Associate

Darren Dahl

Scientist | Behavioural Science, Marketing, Product Development

Scientist

Sally Daub

Founder, Pool Global Partners

Fellow

Jim Davidson

Founding Partner, CDL-Vancouver | Retired CEO, FirstEnergy

Fellow

Rhiannon Davies

Founding & Managing Partner, Sandpiper Ventures

Associate

Timur Davis

Principal, Munich Re Ventures

Associate

Rolf Dekleer

Investor and Board Member

Investigator

Jim Derbyshire

Entrepreneur In Residence

Associate

Mark Dobbin

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | Founder and President, Killick Capital Inc.

Fellow

Joe Dwyer

Founding Partner, Manifold Group

Associate

Lauren Epstein

Principal, Standup Ventures

Associate

Haig Farris

President, Fractal Capital

Associate

Derek V. Exner, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS

Scientist | Cardiologist, Clinical Trials, Implantable Electrical Device

Associate, Scientist

Geoff Flood

Tech Advisory Leader (Atlantic Canada), MNP Corp

Associate

Chen Fong

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

Fellow

John Francis

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

Fellow

April Franco

Professor, University of Toronto

Economist

Joseph Fung

Managing Partner, Saltagen Ventures

Associate

Andrew Fursman

CEO and Co-Founder, 1QBit

Fellow

Randy Goebel

Professor of Computing Science, University of Alberta

Scientist

Douglas Gray

Owner, NOM Investments

Associate

Jason Greenspan

Former Co-founder and CEO, WHOOSH!

Associate

Gary Griffiths

Co-founder and Managing Director, Wisdom LLP

Associate

Neeraj Gupta

Chief Strategy Officer, Attabotics Inc.

Associate

Baris Guzel

Partner, BMW i Ventures

Associate

Carl Haas

Scientist

Scientist

Colin Harris

Founding Partner, CDL-Vancouver | Co-founder, PMC-Sierra

Fellow

Jason Hein

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Scientist

Michael G. Helander

President & CEO, OTI Lumionics

Associate

Michael Henson

Investigator | AI, Machine Vision, Software Engineering

Investigator

Paul Hill

Founder and Managing Director, Sparkasa Capital

Associate

Jim Horowitz

Senior Manager, Beresford Ventures

Associate

Evan Hu

Co-CEO, OmniLogic

Associate

Patricia Hume

CEO, Canvas GFX

Associate

Derrick Hunter

President & CEO, Bluesky Equities Ltd.

Fellow

Michael Hyatt

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

Fellow

Ashwin K. Iyer

Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Scientist

Richard Janega

COO, Emera Inc.

Associate

Savior Joseph

President, Breathing Green Solutions

Associate

Kimberly Kaplan

CEO and Founder, Snack

Associate

Lina Kattan

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering

Scientist

Andra Keay

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Associate

Patrick Keefe

General Partner, Build Ventures

Associate

Elham Alipour Khayer

VP Data Science, Charli AI

Investigator

Lawrence Korngut

Neurologist and Director of Innovation and Commercialization, Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Scientist

Ray Kruck

Founder, Nexgate | Founder, Pointgrey Partners

Associate

Mike Lake

Founder & COO, Mosaic Integration & COO, Entero Corporation

Associate

Allen Lau

CEO and Co-founder, Wattpad

Associate

Eva Lau

Founding and General Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures

Associate

Nicole LeBlanc

Partner, Platform @2150.vc

Associate

Paul LeBlanc

Founder & CEO, 7th Wave Capital

Associate

Paul Lee

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

Fellow

Ian Lewis

Assistant Professor

Scientist

Steve Liang

Founder & CTO, SensorUp

Scientist

John Lindsay

Chairman, Eastport Properties

Associate

James Lochrie

Founder & CEO, Thin Air Labs

Associate

marcos Lopez

Executive in Residence, iNovia Capital Inc.; Former Co-Head, Morgan Stanley at Work; Former CEO, Solium Capital Inc.

Associate

Patrick Lor

Managing Partner, Panache Ventures

Associate

Jevon MacDonald

CEO and Co-Founder, Manifold Group

Fellow

Shannon MacDonald

Senior Managing Director, Accenture Canada

Associate

Lindsay Machan

Co-founder, Angiotech Pharmaceuticals

Fellow

Alan Mackworth

Scientist | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Scientist

Matthew MacLellan

President, Atlantic Region, Rogers Communications

Associate

Dion Madsen

CFA, Amplitude Ventures

Associate

Geoff Mair

CEO, SensorUp

Associate

Paola Marignani

Professor, Dalhousie University

Scientist

Tony van Marken

Managing Partner and Co-founder, First Ascent Ventures

Associate

Jen McCain

President, Irie Capital Corporation

Associate

Mike McCauley

Co-Founder and General Partner, Garage Capital

Guest Associate

Alex McIsaac

Partner, Global Founders Capital

Associate

Christopher Micetich

President and CEO, Fedora Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Associate

Kristi Miller

Managing Partner, Natural Products Canada Ventures

Associate

Chris Moyer

President, Pelorus Venture Capital Ltd.

Associate

Sarah Murphy

Partner, Pelorus Venture Capital Ltd.

Associate

Ray Muzyka

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

Fellow

Chris Neumann

Partner, Panache Ventures

Associate

Carolyn O’Keefe

Partner, Thinkwell Communications

Associate

Michael Pangia

President and COO, Westmount Park Investments

Associate

Niki Panich

Board Chair, Physician, Clinical Consultant, Mosaic Primary Care Network

Associate

Jian Pei

Scientist | Data Mining, Big Data, Machine Learning

Scientist

Ali Pejman

Partner, Fort Capital Partners

Associate

Claude Piche

Co-Founder, President and CEO, Locemia Solutions

Associate

Mahdi Ramezani

CTO, ehsAI

Investigator

Shanti Rao

Independent

Associate

Irfhan Rawji

Venture Partner, Relay Ventures

Associate

Kelsey Regan

Busker Media Ltd.

Investigator

Lally Rementilla

Managing Partner, IP Investments, BDC Capital

Associate

Jay Rhind

Partner, Rhino Ventures

Associate

Kristina Rinker

Professor of Biomedical Engineering University of Calgary; Chief Scientific Officer Syantra Inc.

Scientist

John Risley

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

Fellow

David Roberts

President, Y Tara Capital

Associate

Robert Rohling

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical Engineering - University of British Columbia

Scientist

Tim Salcudean

Scientist | Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Medical Imaging

Scientist

Reza Sanaie

Former Co-Founder and CTO, Beanworks

Associate

Barry Sanders

Scientific Director, Quantum City

Scientist

Marc Savoie

Executive In Residence, East Valley Ventures Inc.

Associate

Brice Scheschuk

Managing Partner, Globalive Capital Inc

Associate

George Shimizu

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Calgary

Scientist

Leonid Sigal

Scientist | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics

Scientist

Gerri Sinclair

BC Innovation Commissioner, Government of British Columbia

Associate

Leah Skerry

Co-Founder, Squiggle Park

Associate

Nancy L. Smith

Retired Director, ARC Financial Corp.

Associate

Jeff Smith

President & CEO, DCBank

Associate

Frank Sobey

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | Board member, Canadian-U.S. Fulbright Program

Fellow

Rob Sobey

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | Corporate Director, Empire Company Ltd.

Jonathan Sobey

Co-founder and Managing Partner, LongShot Capital

Associate

Jim Spatz

Founding Partner, CDL-Atlantic | Chairman and CEO, Southwest Properties Ltd.

Fellow

Anup Srivastava

Canada Research Chair (Accounting, Decision-Making and Capital Markets)

Economist

Marc St-Onge

Founder & CEO, Bend Beauty

Associate

Ted Sum

Partner, Smart & Biggar

Associate

Naweed Syed

Chief Scientist | Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Scientist

Andrew Thompson

CEO, Proteus Digital Health

Associate

Mark Torrance

Principal Engineer, Facebook

Associate

Christine Tovee

Consultant, CATx Technology

Fellow

Mark Trevitt

Partner, BDC Venture Capital

Investigator

Vladimir Tucakov

Founder, Point Grey Research

Associate

Don Turnbull

Investigator | Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Information Systems

Investigator

Dawn Umlah

Consultant

Associate

Jennifer Wagner

President, CarbonCure Technologies

Associate

Neil Wainwright

Founding Partner, CDL-Toronto | CEO, Jim's Crickets

Associate

Cameron Walker

VP of New Models and Partnerships, VF Corporation

Associate

Laurie Wallace

Co-founder & Past CEO, Datum Telegraphic

Fellow

Alexander Whalley

Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary

Economist

Jeff White

CEO, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation

Associate

Dustin Wilkes

President, United Pacific Projects | President at Parkland Pipeline

Associate

Kristina Williams

President and CEO, Alberta Enterprise Corporation

Associate

Pamela Winsor

Healthcare Consultant and Creative Strategist

Associate

Ralph Winter

Scientist | Economics, Finance, Policy

Scientist

Chunhua Wu

Scientist | Behavioural Science, Marketing

Scientist

Jenny Yang

Partner, Panda Angel Partners; Senior Advisor, MaRS Discovery District

Associate

Sarah Young

Managing Partner, National Public Relations Inc.

Associate