Dr. Tom Corr

President and CEO
Ontario Centres of Excellence

 

Regarded as one of Canada's foremost experts in bringing research to commercial success, Dr. Tom Corr, currently CEO of the Accelerator Centre at the Waterloo Research and Technology Park, and Associate Vice President of Commercialization, University of Waterloo, has been named as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Centres of Excellence
Inc.

Dr. Corr is the Associate Vice President of Commercialization at the University of Waterloo, CEO of the Accelerator Centre at the Waterloo Research and Technology Park and CEO of the Accelerator for Commercialization Excellence (ACE). Prior to that he was also Director of Commercialization - IT & Communications at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Corr's career spans more than 30 years in the IT sector including positions as Managing Partner at Catalyst Partnership; founder and CEO of Momentum Systems; founder, CEO and President of Applied Development Corp., and President of Canadian Data Processing Corp. He has also taught in the EMBA program at the University of Toronto and is an industry professor at McMaster University.

His education includes a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Henley Management College/Brunel University in England, an MBA from the University of Toronto, and an Advanced Post Graduate Degree in Management Consultancy