Founding Patrons
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Hon. Paul Desmarais
Chair of Exec. Committee, Power Corporation of Canada
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Jimmy Pattison
Chairman & CEO, The Jim Pattison Group
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W. Galen Weston
Chairman & President, George Weston Ltd.
Co Founders
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Ajay Agrawal
Academic Director, NEXT Canada, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and NBER
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Claudia Hepburn
Chief Executive Officer, Immigrant Access Fund Canada
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Reza Satchu
Founding Chairman and Co-Chair, NEXT Canada and Managing Partner, Alignvest Management Corp
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Tim Hodgson
Managing Partner, Alignvest Management Corp
Board Members
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Adam Jiwan
Founder, CEO and Chairman, Spring Labs
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Ajay Agrawal
Academic Director, NEXT Canada, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and NBER
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Anthony Lacavera
Founder & Chairman, Globalive Capital
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Charles Field-Marsham
Founder and President, Kestrel Capital Management Corp.
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Colleen McMorrow
Corporate Director, Retired Partner, EY
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Emilie Cushman
Co-founder and CEO, Kira Talent
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Francis Shen
President, Shen Capital Corporation
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Jacqui Allard
EVP, Personal Financing Products RBC
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John Kelleher
Co-Chair, NEXT Canada and Partner, McKinsey & Company
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Nadir Mohamed
Chairman, ScaleUp Ventures; Former President & CEO, Rogers Communications
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Paul Desmarais III
Vice-President, Power Corporation of Canada
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Reza Satchu
Founding Chairman and Co-Chair, NEXT Canada and Managing Partner, Alignvest Management Corp
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Som Seif
Founder and CEO, Purpose Investments
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Tim Hodgson
Managing Partner, Alignvest Management Corp
Investment Committee
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Alexandra McGregor
Director of Programs, NEXT Canada
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Jim Orlando
Managing Partner, Wittington Ventures
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Kevin Kimsa
General Partner, ScaleUP Ventures
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Matt Saunders
President, Ryerson Futures
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Peter Carrescia
Chair, NEXT Canada Investment Committee; SVP Strategy and Corporate Development, Wave
Entrepreneurs in Residence
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Chris Hodgson
Founder, The Pivt
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Deborah Beatty
Vice President Strategic Partnerships, Flybits
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Tony Valle
Founder and CEO, ELM Performance Group
Faculty
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Ajay Agrawal
Academic Director, NEXT Canada, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and NBER
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Alicia DeSantola
Ph.D. candidate, Organizational Behaviour program Harvard University
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Andrew Maxwell
Bergeron Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University
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Ann-Frances Cameron
Associate Professor of Information Technologies at HEC Montréal, Director of the Research Group in Information Systems (GReSI)
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Avi Goldfarb
Associate Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management
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Christian Catalini
Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Sloan School of Management
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Christopher Pal
Associate professor, Department of computer and software engineering, École Polytechnique of Montreal
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Corey Phelps
Associate Professor of Strategy and Desautels Faculty Fellow, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
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Denis A. Grégoire
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal
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Denis Schweizer
Associate Professor of Finance, Concordia University in Montréal
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Florian Shkurti
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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François Bellavance
Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Member of Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO)
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Graham Neubig
Assistant professor, Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University
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Graham Taylor
Associate Professor, University of Guelph; Academic Director, NextAI; Member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Hong Luo
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
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Jackie Cheung
Assistant Professor, Co-director, Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University
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Jean-François Ouellet
Associate Professor in Marketing and Entrepreneurship at HEC Montréal
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Joelle Pineau
Head of Facebook AI Facebook Research Lab William Dawson Scholar and Co-Director, Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University
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Joshua Gans
Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management
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Kosta Derpanis
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Ryerson University; Adjunct Professor, York University; Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute; Faculty Affiliate, Vision: Science to Applications
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Kyunghyun Cho
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
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Laurent Charlin
Assistant professor, Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal
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Laurent Simon
Full Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montréal
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Louis Hébert
Co-Director of the McGill–HEC Montréal EMBA program and Director of the MBA program
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Mara Lederman
Director, Research Resources and Centres Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management
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Marc Busch
Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy, Georgetown University
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Marcus Brubaker
Research Director, Borealis AI; Assistant Professor, York University; Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto; Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute
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Matthew Philp
Assistant Professor of Marketing at HEC Montréal
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Ramana Nanda
Sarofim-Rock Professor; Co-Director, Private Capital Project; Harvard Business School
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Raquel Urtasun
Head of Uber ATG Toronto, Associate Professor of CS at University of Toronto
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Reza Satchu
Founding Chairman and Co-Chair, NEXT Canada and Managing Partner, Alignvest Management Corp
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Rory M. McDonald
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard University
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Sanja Fidler
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Weiguang Guan
Visualization Software Developer, SHARCNET / Compute Canada, McMaster University
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Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms