Mahmoud Alkhraishi is the Director of Engineering at Mavennet, a Toronto-based venture studio focusing on driving digital transformation. Mahmoud is an instructor at York University, an active contributor to the W3C and an identity and privacy expert. Currently, Mahmoud leads his team in bringing to market fresh and innovative products, including a cross-border tracking system for Oil, Natural Gas and Steel with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mahmoud is passionate about building scalable, reliable software and specializes in architecting solutions to create businesses from the ground up. Mahmoud graduated from the Software Development and Network Engineering program at Sheridan College. Mahmoud enjoys reading, sailing, and listening to podcasts in his free time.

President of Mavennet Systems, Kesem is an enterprise blockchain pioneer. His work includes leading large scale DLT implementations across the financial system, and the US/Canadian governments. Former Blockchain lead at Deloitte Canada, he served as a mentor for the Creative Destruction Lab, Founder Institute and Techstars.

Yevgen Malyshev, Chief Product Officer, is an entrepreneur and technology leader experienced in structuring and leading complex business technology transformations. Previously, Yevgen spent over 15 years in various roles at Avanade (joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft) delivering multi-million enterprise IT transformation programs and building class-leading consulting organizations. Yevgen holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from York University.

Patrick as CEO of Mavennet focuses on driving digital transformation through the company’s approach and work, trying to identify large opportunities for disruption rather then incremental improvements. He lead Mavennet to make the progress that it has, being awarded the 2020 Mind to Market award for its work of bringing to market fresh and innovative products. Prior to founding Mavennet, Patrick was a Senior Manager at the Deloitte technology strategy practice, where he focused on digital transformations across industries, led the IoT practice in Eastern Canada and was Chief of Staff for global Technology Strategy practice, comprised of over 3,500 practitioners at the time. Patrick was responsible for large scale digital transformation in a wide range of industries (e.g. automotive, financial services, education, professional services, etc.). Prior to that, Patrick worked in the telecommunication sector and in digital infrastructure deployment projects for the French Defense contractor Thales. Patrick holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication engineering from the UPC in Barcelona, Spain, a M.Sc. in Information Technology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.