Judges

32 judges who've evaluated live pitches at Aurrin Ventures events.

Adrian Ghira

MBA, Founder and CEO, GAM Tech

Kim N.

Academic Chair, Data Science, AI and Cybersecurity, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

Musap Abdelhag

Co-Founder and AI Systems Architect, Onstack AI Labs

Nima Najand

Innovation Hubs and Intellectual Property, Innovate Calgary

Crystal Phillips

Senior Director, The Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund, Calgary Economic Development

Jennifer Erickson

MSc, MBA, Innovate Calgary and UCeed

Martin Ciuk

Associate Director, Science & Engineering Technology Transfer, Innovate Calgary

Michael McGee

Director of Innovation, Bioenterprise Canada

Anthony Bellot

Director, Agribusiness & Agri-Food, ATB Financial

Will Zhang

Founder, OpenHouse.ai

Keith Daser

Founder, Deliver Digital Inc.

Christopher Ballem

Senior Manager, EY

Shubham Garg

CEO, Prospera Energy

Siva Sam

President, USXI Group

Jana McDonald

DCM Group

Mohammad Keyhani

Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship, Haskayne School of Business; Deal Partner, Boardy.ai; Co-Founder, Honeybee Logic

Barry Vopnu

Founder & CEO, Circleup Tech Inc.

Sanjeevani Uppal

Venture Program Specialist, Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, University of Calgary

Norman Poon

Co-Founder, BitWide

Kartavi Shah

Founder & Managing Director, NextGen Founders Lab

Abdullah Choudhry

Arbor

Prabh Paul Parmar

TraceRent

Jade Kennedy

Tooth Express

Shiva Souri

Founder, Learnovate Solution

Avnish Mehta

Founder, Stand and Command

Akshay Gulati

Founder, Tech Connect Alberta

Reem Hamdon

Venture Manager, Creative Destruction Lab

Stan Peake

Entrepreneurship Lead, Bow Valley College

Dennis Agbegha

Director of Banking Prairies, RBCx

Debbie Butt

Founder, In The Know YYC

Deryck Greer

Chief Information Officer, Sovaicor

Sam Duperré

Founder, VespaYEG