Manager, Technology Transfer and Commercialization
GRAND

Dr Mark Salopek leads GRAND’s technology transfer and commercialization initiatives and is responsible for facilitating and directing the transfer of technology and talent out of the university computing labs to industry. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, Cambridge England, and prior to arriving at GRAND he taught strategic management, e-commerce, marketing and humanities courses at Thompson Rivers University in the Open Learning Division and was actively involved on the University Senate and Senate committees. Formerly, he was a member of the faculty at the British Columbia Open University (Open Learning Agency), University of British Columbia, University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan College. In the private sector he worked at British Columbia's leading technology firm, Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), promoting the commercialization of data, information and products derived from Canada’s RADARSAT satellite. In his various business development capacities he worked with policy makers, and senior executives in the private and public sectors and a wide range of national and international agencies and organizations including the Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, World Bank, WHO and other UN agencies. He was also the founding member and director of several Internet companies and start-ups in the late 90s and early 2000s.