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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a Top 5 Canadian university located in Edmonton, Alberta, and home to 40,000 students in a wide variety of programs.

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ualberta.ca

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Engineering Manager

Dylan Grandmont

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Give me a problem and I will create software to solve it; Give me colleagues and I will help build an effective and collaborative team to solve it at scale. I enjoy crafting quality software and positive team cultures. I like working with Scrum and Agile, but mostly I like delivering valuable and impactful experiences to users. Authentic people and big learning curves motivate me. I've been solving complex problems across disciplines and across timezones for 10+ years professionally.

Herman Atwal, CPA, CMA

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Output

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Left fiat to contribute in Web3.

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Software Engineer @ Candescent

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Co-founder, Vopplar

Mikhail Lincy Philip

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I've spent about 5 years working and I still not exactly sure what my edge is or what's my differentiator, but I'm confident I'm talented and gifted at something. And years ago, when I got into my junior college and degree college, I did it through minority quota, so I haven't really accomplished anything as such or achieved anything through merit. That means I took the seat of someone far more deserving and who could have used a college like Xavier's as a launching pad to become successful. I primarily studied Economics, but, turns out, I don't like or understand Economics, so I'm unsure how I exactly passed all my exams and graduated in the top 95% of my class. I also studied Finance and I like it a lot, but I still don't understand a lot of things; I'm hoping to gradually pick up and learn more things. I'm looking into fields like business, technology, startups, finance, VC, PE, AI, crypto, the Metaverse, startups, Web 3.0 and more. So far, I've done content writing, which is a fancy way of saying I go through dozens of articles, put them all together and frame them in a re-written & non-plagiarized manner, while also offering some new insights or ways of thinking, though nothing too extraordinary a thought. How clever of me, no one else can do that. I've written many articles and video scripts. What a grand achievement. It's not like generative AI, like ChatGPT, can do any of that. That just means I'm not an innovator or thinker, just someone who can rewrite and refine. And like oil or flour, "refined" is not a good thing. That's sad, because we live in an era of refinement, not originality. And we need more originality. By the way, don't be fooled by the LinkedIn profile picture. I chose it, because it's my nicest one and I took it at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, I've put on 60 pounds, so you can imagine how macabre and grotesque I've gotten since then. And now, here's what I'm looking to do: solving and getting things done, somehow. Once or twice in the past, I may have waved the white flag when the going got tough, but no more. Now's the time to be antifragile. Now's the time to be the tough that gets going. Now's the time to aspire to be one of the greats.

Natalia Churchill

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Principal Architect

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Team Lead at Boosted Technology

Moien Giashi, PhD

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Moien is a Polymer Engineer and Materials Scientist turned venture capital investor specializing in deep tech. He is a Principal at GreenSky Ventures($70M+ in AUM), where he leads deep tech investments. Moien serves as a board observer, board member, advisor, or director to multiple startups including seven GreenSky Ventures' portfolio companies. He is also a board member at Altitude Accelerator, and he chairs the Advisory Board for the University of Alberta’s Chemical and Materials Engineering Department. Before his career in VC and Entrepreneurship Moien authored 18 peer-reviewed scientific publications in Nanotechnology and Polymer Science that has been cited 1,100+ times. Moien advises startups across a range of areas, including: Fundraising: Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A; Operations: Managing the internal ops and ops strategy; Go-to-Market Strategy: Focused on deep tech hardware/software solutions; and Development and Branding: Software, web, and storytelling.

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