CDL Recovery: A Global Program with Global Mentors

The COVID- 19 crisis is not only urgent and novel, it is also global. To that end, the Creative Destruction Lab disbanded its traditional location-based programming and designed the CDL Recovery program to run globally. See page 26 for a description of the program. Mentors for CDL Recovery include:

Dawn Bell, Chief Scientific Officer, Novartis (Boston)

Elizabeth Cannon, President Emerita and Professor at the University of Calgary (Calgary)

James Cham, Partner at Bloomberg Beta (Palo Alto) Sir Chris Deverell, former Commander of the UK’S Joint Forces Command (Bath)

Mark Evans, Partner, LP at Kindred Capital (London)

Chen Fong, Professor Emeritus of Faculty of Medicine at University of Calgary and Co-founder of Pureweb Inc. (Calgary)

Brenda Fitzgerald, former Director of the Centers for Disease

Control (Atlanta)

Nancy Gallini, Professor Emeritus at UBC’S Vancouver School of Economics (Vancouver)

Chris Hadfield, former commander of the International Space Station (Toronto)

Irina Haivas, Principal of investment firm Atomico (London)

James Hardiman, Partner at investment firm DCVC (San

Francisco)

Colin Harris, Cofounder of Pmc-sierra (Vancouver)

Eric Hautemont, Cofounder and CEO of Days of Wonder and Ray Dream (Paris)

Laura Rosella, Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (Toronto)

Tytus Michalski, Managing Partner at investment firm Fresco Capital (Hong Kong)

Amit Mital, former CTO at Symantec (Seattle)

Vreni Schoenenberger, Global Head of Public Affairs in Neuroscience at Novartis (Basel)

Jane Walerud, Partner at investment firm Walerud Ventures

(Stockholm) Pam Winsor, former Chief Marketing Officer for Medtronic (Halifax)