Aditya Kapoor is a second year full time MBA student at Rotman School of Management. He trained as a lawyer in India and briefly worked as an energy lawyer before quitting to join his family venture, astroYogi. astroYogi started as a content licensing company, tying up with MSN, Yahoo and Google, among others, and eventually transitioned into a service platform connecting astrologers/tarot readers to customers in a marketplace model. Using this experience, Aditya co-founded OyeHelp, a digital healthcare platform, aimed at connecting doctors to patients using video and cloud telephony.

Aditya also headed the digital marketing and technology initiatives for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign in 2014 and aims to be involved at the intersection of social media, technology and political campaign management.

Maxim Antipin holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Engineering Business from the University of Toronto. He is the co-founder of the healthcare technology company SwiftPad, which is an IBM Innovation Partner and 2016 UTEST alumni. Maxim also volunteers his time as an executive committee member at IEEE Toronto where he received the “Outstanding New Leader” award in recognition of leadership in the first year. Maxim is passionate about the intersection of engineering and business in the healthcare industry. His capstone project “Indoor Auditory Navigation” was the recipient of the “2017 CNIB Hochhausen Prize”. He continues to strive for positive change in Canada’s healthcare system by empowering & connecting pharmacists with innovative technology.

Saif Abid is a Computer Engineer from the University of Toronto and CTO of SwiftPad – a healthcare company which is also an IBM Innovation Partner. Saif has a deep interest for Golang, distributed systems, data engineering and as of recent, functional programming. When he’s not reading research papers and textbooks for fun, you can find him in the gym or out on a jog. Saif is a big believer in solving problems which impact individuals on a global scale. For example, as his Capstone project, he helped build an “Indoor Auditory Navigation” system for the visually impaired. The project went on to receive the “2017 CNIB Hochhausen Prize”. Ultimately, Saif’s passion is to build novel engineering solutions to help those who need it the most.

Rick Baltman has served as the President and CTO of 2XL Games since 2005 during which time the company developed its first PS3 and Xbox 360 title from the ground, up. Prior to co founding 2XL Games, Rick served as a Lead Programmer at Rainbow Studios where he programmed the core game play technology for all of its games. Previously, he co founded and managed two other business that developed the Maya Real-Time Game Engine for Alias|Wavefront and ReelMotion, a vehicle simulation tool used by Hollywood special effects companies to animate cars, aircraft and spacecraft in many movies and TV commercials. Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, Rick worked as an Attitude Control Systems engineer on a wide variety of aerospace projects including satellites and unmanned aircraft. Rick received a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.

Steve Ballantyne is a social entrepreneur who co-founded and leads successful companies in the beverage & real estate industry. As the Founder of STATION Cold Brew, Steve and his team built Canada’s largest independent cold brew coffee company in a few short years. He also co-founded Neighbourhood Buzz, a company that provides end-to-end digital marketing services to the property management industry across Canada. Steve is actively involved in the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) and start-up community in Toronto, with experience running four businesses thus far. Are you thinking about becoming an entrepreneur? With his wealth and breadth of experiences, Steve’s stories and advice would be invaluable to budding entrepreneurs.

Samar is the President and Founder of Green Press Inc.. Green Press was founded as a means of helping people live a healthier lifestyle with an effective means of nourishment. Trying to maintain a healthy diet is difficult in the hectic and stressful lives that many individuals experience. Samar’s vision is to help each individual lead a healthier, more energetic life by providing delicious and nutritious juices that one can incorporate into their daily lifestyle.

Samar is an Honours Bachelor of Arts graduate from University of Toronto and a registered Holistic Nutritionist from Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.

Tom is the Co-founder and CSO of BenchSci and holds a Ph.D degree in Epigenetics from University of Toronto. As a team of former bench scientists, Tom experienced the challenges of finding commercial antibodies first-hand. Tom used to spend hours, and sometimes even days, searching for antibody usage data in the literature. Those days are now over! Throughout the past 2 years, BenchSci has developed a machine learning software that can find and extract antibody usage data in the form of published figures. BenchSci used its software to decode millions of papers, and then took all the data, indexed it, and made it easily discoverable for scientists. BenchSci’s goal is to help scientists find antibodies that have been proven to work by the scientific community, and therefore achieve scientific discoveries faster.

The idea for Handled stemmed from Shira’s own experience as a caretaker and busy professional. She found that there wasn’t enough time in the day to tackle her long to-do list but couldn’t find anyone to help. This gap in the retail market, combined with her love of fashion and shopping, led Shira to launch Handled Concierge Services.

Handled officially launched in June 2017 to help individuals with everyday shopping tasks. The online service is targeted to anyone who needs help with everyday shopping tasks including people looking spruce up their wardrobe, busy professionals who don’t have time to run around, and individuals who have gone through a major lifestyle change.