Daryl hatton
fOUNDER & CEO
Daryl Hatton is founder and CEO of the innovative social commerce company ConnectionPoint , producer of the award-winning global crowdfunding platform FundRazr and the innovative sponsored crowdfunding system Sponsifi. He has founded multiple tech start-ups and helped bring one to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999. He actively serves as board member or special advisor to handfuls of other hot companies in Canada. In addition, he is a Director and Crowdfunding Ambassador for the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada. As a social media guy and frequent public speaker, his Twitter tagline reads “#KingOfGastown, entrepreneur, cardiac survivor, foodie, whisky nut, philosopher, mentor, father, and friend.”
Ella li
MASc, P. ENG.
Ella is currently a Structural Engineer at RJC Engineers, one of North America's leading engineering firms specializing in Structural Design and Building Science. After graduating from Tongji University in China, Ella moved to Canada and completed her master’s degree at UBC in 2012. Since then, Ella has been involved in several major developments in Lower Mainland and is an active member at EGBC and industry associations such as UDI and ULI.
Michelle Kunimoto
Ph.D. Candidate in Astronomy
Michelle is a PhD student in Astronomy at UBC. Inspired to study astronomy by Star Trek: The Original Series, her work is all about exoplanets - planets outside of the Solar System - with a focus on those that might be able to support life. Her discovery of four new planet candidates as a UBC undergraduate landed her on the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Science in 2017, and she continues to hunt for exoplanets as part of her research. By the end of her PhD, she hopes to find and characterize hundreds of new planets, as well as estimate the number of Earth-like planets in our galaxy.
Eisha Sharda
Undergraduate Psychology lab manager
Eisha Sharda is a 4th year science student majoring in Neurophysiology through Integrated Sciences. She is currently part of the Social Identity Lab as the current lab manager and a previous research assistant and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Thought Lab where she will be completing her honour’s thesis. Her research interests include stereotype threat, gender bias, mental well-being, mind-wandering and brain dynamics. She is particularly interested in the way gender bias shapes the job market, the impact gender bias and stereotype threat have on job satisfaction and workplace organization, and the interactions between external stimuli and brain function.