Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Professor Agrawal is the Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a not-for-profit program for early-stage, science-based companies. Its mission is to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. CDL operates at 13 universities globally, and companies that have graduated from the program have generated over $30 billion in equity value. He is also a Co-founder and Board Director of Sanctuary AI, a Vancouver-based robotics company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.
Etienne Fretault is an early-stage startup investor and mentor, a certified board member, and a member of several prominent angel investor organizations in the USA and in Europe.
Rangesh Kasturi has over 40 years of global experience in technology management, business development, strategic planning, and P&L leadership, including establishing and expanding businesses across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He is a mentor at CDL and the NATO DIANA initiative. He is the former President of L3Harris Maritime International.
Philip Kotler, the professor emeritus and S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and often referred to as the father of modern marketing.
As an investor-operator, Marvin manages the Investment Holding Company, Sukna Global. He was formerly a Partner at Diaspora Ventures, a pre-seed fund, and a partner and board member at Game Groove Capital, an International Gaming Holding Company. He is best known as a former Partner at Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups. CDL mentor.
Dr. Paula Mendonça has worked in intellectual property and research commercialization for nearly two decades, including leading the licensing of university IP. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Ocean Startup Project, a catalyst for sustainable ocean innovation. CDL mentor.
Robert Orr is a business leader with more than 30 years of experience at the senior management level in the marine biotech, nutritional ingredient, food retailing, food wholesaling, and retail advertising industries. His breadth of experience ranges from creating and managing several startup companies to overseeing large multinational corporate division operations with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion. CDL mentor.
Deborah Peacock is a Patent Attorney, Engineer, a CEO and entrepreneur, an angel investor (including with some CDL companies), and sits on several corporate boards (Canada and U.S.). Deborah’s law practice and boards involve natural resources, mining, metallurgy, energy, battery materials, alternative energy, oil and gas, aerospace, outer space, and environmental technologies. CDL mentor.
Milly is the executive director of Ocean Exchange (OE), giving non-dilutive funding and mentoring advice to innovative start-ups that support healthy oceans and a sustainable Blue Economy, and a CDL mentor.
Over the course of a professional career spanning almost three decades, Guillermo has helped launch over a dozen for-profit ventures and nonprofit organizations in a diverse range of fields, including technology, space, oceans, sustainability, and music.
Neil Wainwright is a CRM expert with over 30 years of technical engineering experience and has been an entrepreneur, building and managing businesses for more than 25 years, and a CDL mentor.
Iain Christie has served as a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab for the last six years. He was the CEO of a successful space start-up company, Neptec Design Group, where he spent a total of twenty-five years at the venture. CDL mentor.
Ethan Mayers is the co-founder of BoardLens, a board intelligence firm turning board work into portfolio foresight through AI-powered virtual analysts. He’s also a Venture Partner at Fairbridge VC, backing founders driving progress through technology around the world.
Eric Siegel has worked at the intersection of ocean science, technical innovation, and international business for twenty years. He has held director and founder positions in global ocean technology companies, leading teams in sales, marketing, business development, product development, and advanced manufacturing. Eric serves as Strategic Advisor for international ocean technology companies and Chief Innovation Officer and Executive in Residence within several ocean innovation and commercialization organizations. He is a leader at CDL Oceans.
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