Mark Chamberlain, Chair

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Entrepreneur and community advocate Mark Chamberlain is President and CEO of a commercialization firm called Trivaris, which focuses on early startup technology companies. He received the University of Waterloo Engineering Alumni Medal in 1999, was awarded the Ernst & Young 2001 Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Technology and Communications category, the 2001 National Entrepreneur of the Year Special Citation for Market Leadership, a Professional Engineers of Ontario Medal for Entrepreneurship in 2004, and was inducted into Burlington’s ‘Entrepreneur Hall of Fame’ in 2006. Mark was also selected as one of the top 100 Entrepreneurs in Ontario by the Ontario Business Report in 1996.

Mark is currently a member and the past Chair of the Board of the Hamilton Community Foundation, Chair of the Hamilton Tackling Poverty Roundtable, Chair of the Golden Horseshoe Innovation Alliance, member of the Board of the Ontario Centres of Excellence, and Chair of the Ontario Centres of Excellence Commercialization Committee.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree (B.A. Sc.) and a Masters of Applied Science degree (MASc) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.