David Alton (MBA) co-founder and CEO: David has extensive experience with start-up technology companies and micro and nanotechnology. He has been the co-founder of five University of Alberta start-up spin off companies over the last 10 years. Prior to Aquila, David worked as a management consultant, managed research programs at the UofA and worked for various government agencies.

Dr. Jason Acker (PhD,MBA) co-founder and CTO: Jason brings more than 12 years of management experience having worked on technology evaluation and process improvement projects with multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Canada, US, UK and Singapore. As a medical researcher at Harvard Medical School and at the University of Alberta, Jason managed research teams engaged in cutting-edge research and technology development.