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Esch Committee Members
The current Committee is comprised of internal faculty members from Ryerson, and external advisors who have expertise or direct experience in technology start-up ventures.
Committee Chair
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| John MacRitchie |
Assistant Vice-President Zone Learning and Strategic Initiatives |
External Esch Committee Members
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| Hadeer Hassaan |
Vice President, Field Shared Services - Bell |
| Suresh Madan |
President & CEO MyHealth |
| Mark Farrow |
CIO, Hamilton Health Science |
| Tony Redpath |
PhD (Physical Chemistry) - Trained Scientist, Entrepreneur |
| Valerie Fox |
Director Pivotal Innovation |
| Dominic Talalla |
Managing Partner, Trellis Capital Firm |
| Usha Srinivasan |
Chief of Staff - Elevate / Co-founder Hauschef |
| Ela Borenstein |
Director BDC Biotechnology |
| Charles Boulakia |
Patent Lawyer, Smart & Biggar |
| Brian MacDonald |
Senior Business Advisor, Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure, Government of Ontario |
| Pushkar Kumer |
Founder, CSO & Board Director, GreenMantra Technologies |
| Ayesha Sabouba |
Director, Telecom Engineering, Hyrdo-One Telecom Inc. |
| Manfred Koo |
Life Sciences & Health sector consultant. |
| Karen L. Killeen |
Senior Business Advisor, Business Advisory Services |
| Samin Eftekhari |
Founder and President of Artin Biomed & Biomaterial Engineer at United Therapeutics Corporation, Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Joel Liederman |
President, ELARAD Venture Management |
| Holly Gardner |
Director, Strategic Initiatives - NXM Labs |
| Irene Yang |
Head of Business Development, Canada BASF Canadian Leadership Team |
| Alex Kjorven |
VP Corporate Development at Neighbourhood Capital | UofT Lecturer | SheEO Activator |
| Lisa Boreanaz |
Regional Director | NRC-IRAP |
| Carol Armstrong |
Venture Business Coach |
| Stephen Pumple |
Consultant |
| Zohair Khan |
Co-Founder and COO at Orchid and Temple |
| Alex Angevaare |
Head of Finance - Portfolio Companies at Siemens Canada Limited |
| Olena Kholodova |
Senior Advisor - Climate Change and Sustainability |
| Sarah Hashem |
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives - Music Canada |
| Andrea Matheson |
Scale Expert. Multi-Exit Entrepreneur. Problem Solver. Executive Entrepreneurial Leader. |
| Rachel Zimmer |
Entrepreneur. General Manager. Start-Up Advisor. Speaker. |
| Saif Husain |
Sr. Manager, IT Planning and Governance |
| Hilary Watson |
Co-Founder & Director, SCREENFLUENCE |
| Craig Thornton |
Vice President, National Business Solutions Marketing, TELUS |
| Michelle Sinclair |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Government of Canada |
| Andrew Opala |
CEO, NXM LABS, INC. |
Internal Esch Committee Members
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| Ebrahim Bagheri |
Professor, Big Data & Cloud Computing |
| Vincent Hui |
Associate Professor, Architectural Science, FEAS, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| John Enright |
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, FEAS, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Martin Croteau |
Professor, TRSM (President and CEO at Aventis Consulting Group Inc.) |
| Joao De Silva |
Consultant, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Vigen Nazarian |
Senior Director, Business Development and Commercialization, Toronto Metropolitan University |