Sorin Cohn is the Leader of Innovation Metrics for the Centre for Business Innovation with The Conference Board of Canada.
Sorin is also the President of BD COHNsulting and the 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. He is also Member of the Board of Startup Canada as well as the Board of the Centre for Energy Efficiency.
Sorin has 35 years of international business and technology experience. He was the Managing Director EMEA for Terawave in Paris, France, a co-founder and President of Global Portfolio for OrbitIQ, the Director for Exploratory Programs at BNR and he has held executive positions with Nortel Networks. Sorin has developed new technologies, created R&D laboratories, started new product lines and initiated/managed new business units. He has several essential patents in web services, wireless and digital signal processing, as well as over 70 publications and presentations.
A Killam Scholar, Sorin received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.Sc in Physics and an M.Eng in Engineering Physics.