Founders

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is the President and Chairman of Sparta Group LLC, a family investment office and is also the Chairman of Tejas Networks.

Jaishree Deshpande

Jaishree Deshpande is the Treasurer of Sparta Group LLC, and a founder of the Deshpande Foundation.

Gerry Pond

Gerry Pond has over 45 years of in-depth experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector.

Executive Advisory Board

Gerry Pond

Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande

Raj Melville

Paul Mazerolle

Meet the Team

Vanessa Paesani

Executive Director

Sarah Cormier

 Operations & Finance Officer

Rebecca McSheffery

Director of Innovation & NouLAB

Katie Davey

Esther Ibang

Communications & Events Officer

Associates

Vincent-Luc Brouillard

Vincent-Luc Brouillard Consulting

Jason Doiron

O Strategies

Lewis Muirhead

Alternate Future Design Group

Amanda Hachey

All In

Jules Maitland

All In

Nick Scott

Principal Consultant, Shift & Flow

Interested in joining our team as an associate? Review the associate description and contact us at innovate@unb.ca