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MARKUS FRIND
Read moreMarkus Frind was born in 1978 in Donauworth, Germany, and moved to Canada when he was 4 years old. Growing up in Northern BC in a hardworking farming family helped cultivate Markus’ work ethic, drive and tenacity. After high school Markus moved to Vancouver, BC and decided to pursue Computer Programming at British Columbia’s Institute…
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FRANK GIUSTRA
Read moreFrank Giustra is President and CEO of the Fiore Group, a private firm managing a broad portfolio of private equity investments and companies, focussing on natural resources, entertainment, art, food and lifestyle. Mr. Giustra’s entrepreneurial success includes founding Lionsgate Entertainment, now one of the world’s largest independent film companies. Today, Mr. Giustra is a major…
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TERRY HUI
Read moreTerry Hui is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the President and CEO of Concord Pacific Developments Inc., a community builder credited with building the southern skyline of Vancouver’s downtown on the former Expo 86 Lands. He is also noted for redefining the Toronto skyline with the development of the rail lands adjacent to…
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MOE KERMANI
Read moreMoe Kermani is a Managing Partner of Vanedge Capital. In this role he focuses on investments in the areas of: Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Analytics, and quantum information systems. Prior to joining Vanedge, Moe was a Vice President of NetApp Inc. (NTAP:NASDAQ), a leading provider of enterprise data storage solutions. Prior to that Moe…
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V. PAUL LEE
Read moreV. Paul Lee is Founder and Managing Partner of Vanedge Capital Partners Ltd., (“Vanedge Capital”) a venture capital fund based in Vancouver, B.C. Mr. Lee was the former President of Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA), responsible for all product development within its Worldwide Studios Group. Mr. Lee graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) with…
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PHILIP STAMP
Read morePhilip Stamp is the director of the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a professor in the dept of Physics and Astronomy at UBC. He is also a long-term Visiting Associate in Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech. Prior to UBC he was joint director of the Spinoza institute in…
Science Advisors to the Board
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ABHAY ASHTEKAR
Read moreAbhay Ashtekar is Evan Pugh Professor of Physics at Penn State, where he also holds the Eberly Chair. He founded the Institute of Gravitation and the Cosmos and directed it from 1993 till 2021. Before joining Penn State, he held the Erastus Franklin Holden Professorship at Syracuse University and was Professeur (Chaire de Gravitation) at…
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WILLIAM UNRUH
Read moreWilliam Unruh was born in Winnepeg, Canada, and received his Phd at Princeton in 1971 under John Wheeler (also the advisor of Richard Feyman and Kip Thorne). He has for a long time been a Professor in the Dept of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was also the founding…
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K. BIRGITTA WHALEY
Read moreProf Birgitta Whaley is the director of the Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, and Prof of Chemical Physics, both at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. She was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Chicago, and also took a postdoc in Israel…
