is Chair of the Board of Startup Canada as well as the Board ASE Smart Energy. He is on the Bard of the Centre of Excellence for Energy Efficiency. In 2012 Dr. Cohn was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to Canadian communities and industry.
Sorin is President of BD Cohnsulting and Chief Program Officer of i-Canada, driving Innovation Nation programs to help Canadian communities enhance their competitiveness and leading CATA activities towards innovation in commercialization. Dr. Cohn leads the research on innovation metrics and management in the Center for Business Innovation at the Conference Board of Canada.
Sorin has 40 years international business & technology experience having been involved in most facets of “innovation development”: from idea to research and lab prototype, from technology to product, new business units, and then to market success on the global stage.
Mid 2000’s, he was in Paris and all of Europe, as the Managing Director EMEA for Terawave – a California optical access company. Early 2000’s, as co-founder and President Global Portfolio of OrbitIQ – a global business accelerator, Sorin has been working with technology companies in North America, Israel and Europe to build their market strengths. In 2000 he founded Wireless Multimedia Solutions in North Carolina.
Prior to 2000, Sorin held executive positions with Nortel Networks in Wireless, Enterprise Networks and Carrier Networks, and was Director for Exploratory Programs at BNR. He has developed new technologies, created R&D laboratories, started new product lines and initiated/managed new business units. Sorin has several essential patents in web services, wireless and digital signal processing, as well as over 90 publications and presentations.
In parallel, during the 80’s, Dr. Cohn has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. A Killam Scholarship recipient, he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Physics and an M.Eng. in Engineering Physics. He is lecturing at Canadian, US and European Universities on business management and entrepreneurial innovation.
Decisive, dynamic leader with over two decades of experience in developing software products. He has played many challenging roles in various positions from Software Engineer to Program Manager. He has solved critical business problems by applying his strong technical and managerial. Basavaraj has worked for various industry leaders such as HP, Microsoft, TI, Kodak, Ricoh, Sony, Philips and Delphax. He is highly experienced in developing Distributed computing systems, Microsoft technologies and Web technologies. He is also experienced in mobile computing and development of apps and infrastructure for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. Basavaraj has led teams to do research and define the product features.
His extensive management background includes leading multinational teams, managing vendors, developing and managing budgets, monitoring project standards and deliverables, creating strategies, overseeing technical design, documentation and assuring quality of deliverables. Experienced in managing projects using Agile and adept in Applications lifecycle management.
With over 25 years of experience in Engineering and Operations, Intekhab has a strong background in product development and program management. He has served as Vice President, Research and Development at Spacebridge Semiconductors and as Vice President of Technology and Product Development at AGRA Systems Ltd. He has led international technology development programs with organizations such as the Three Georges (China), Space Application Center (India) and European Space Agency. In his many years of product development career, he has worked with small teams where he has had to establish standards and processes from ground up, as well as with large development teams spread over multiple continents. In addition to his product development experience, he has a keen interest in business development, particularly in Asia. He has spent over 20 years supporting and often leading business development efforts in China and India. In the most recent years, he directed a multi-location product development team as well as led the business development initiative to introduce the product in China. He also has significant experience in running operations, particularly during startup phases.
He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
