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