
Jon French
Director, U of T Entrepreneurship
University of Toronto
Jon is responsible for championing entrepreneurship across 3 campuses and 12 accelerators. He manages funding programs and helped launch the Black Founders Network and IP Education Program. U of T is recognized as one of the Top 5 University Incubators in the world. Jon was Senior Director, Global Recruitment, Community and Alumni at NEXT Canada, helped launch NextAI, an artificial intelligence accelerator and received the Ontario Minister’s Award of Excellence in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.