Dan Lynch

Background

About Dan Lynch

Member, Founding Board of Directors, Age-Friendly Niagara. Member, Advisory Board, National Research Council Canada Aging-in-Place Funding Program. Co-Founder of Fika.ai and Fika Friday event. Senior Technology Advisor, FindNext Inc. Experienced Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong professional skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Biotechnology, and Proposal Writing. Dan Lynch was Special Advisor, LINC, Office of the Vice-President, Research at Brock University (2018 - 2020) and formerly founding Manager of BioLinc (2012-2018), Brock’s business and technology incubator. Dan brings a strong and career-long commitment to assisting SMEs and academic researchers, mentoring entrepreneurs, facilitating commercialization and industry liaison. Prior to joining Brock he served as the founding Industry Liaison Manager for Innovation York, York University; Dan was also the Vice President Commercialization and Chief Operating Officer of HTX, Ontario's Health Technology Exchange, a leading catalyst for accelerating the growth of Ontario’s medical and assistive technologies industry cluster; and for many years he was an Industrial Technology Advisor in the National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program across Southern Ontario including more than five years at the University of Western Ontario. He has worked to develop many innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems both on and off campuses and with many innovative Ontario companies to assist in developing new entrepreneurs and technologies that resulted in new businesses and the commercialization of new products, services, processes and markets.