Ajay Agrawal

Co-founder & Partner

Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Ajay is Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a not-for-profit program for early-stage, science-based companies. Its mission is to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. CDL operates at 13 universities globally and companies that have graduated from the program have generated over $30 billion in equity value.

He is also a Co-founder and Board Director of Sanctuary AI, a Vancouver-based robotics company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.

Ajay is a co-author of two best-selling books on the economics of AI – "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence" and “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” He is also co-author of several scholarly and popular press articles on the economics of machine intelligence.

He holds a PhD in Strategy & Business Economics from the University of British Columbia and honorary PhD from the University of Calgary.

Ajay was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022 for his contributions as a scholar, mentor, and entrepreneur, and was featured in the Globe and Mail’s “Power 50” list of the most influential Canadians.