Carla Tsambourlianos is a seasoned international business professional with over 20 years of extensive trade and investment development experience. Having worked with both the Ontario and British governments facilitating two-way trade and foreign investment, her specialty lies in fostering mutually beneficial partnerships, building high performance teams and executing industry-specific strategies to build commercial ties across the globe.

Currently, she is the Manager of the Asia, Middle-East and Africa region at the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade leading a Toronto-based team with strong partners in-market to grow Ontario’s exports throughout the region. She is passionate about uncovering niche market opportunities and connecting the right players to generate revenue and jobs in both jurisdictions.

Sharon Lewinson is the Co-Founder and CEO of RideShark, a powerful SaaS platform delivering the world’s only multimodal integrated SaaS Unified Mobility experience. For more than two decades, Sharon has been a trailblazer in creating sustainable and shared mobility technologies for public and private sector organizations. She is a professional engineer who has held senior roles in private and public sector organizations. She actively supports national capacity building in the sustainable transportation industry through her roles as the President of the Association for Commuter Transportation of Canada, a Director for the Canadian Parking Association, and an FCM Transportation Expert Judge for the Sustainable Communities awards.   

Martin is a member of the team delivering the Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN) initiative. He interacts with the entire innovation ecosystem to help drive economic growth from R&D collaboration. He is responsible for managing AVIN programs investment targets.

Before OCI, Martin has held various positions in R&D and international business development for small and large companies, from Nexus Engineering to Nortel Networks.

His interests are wireless communications, human-machine interfaces, and everything about connected and automated vehicles.

Martin holds an M. A. Sc. from the University of British Columbia and a B. Eng. (Honours) from McGill University, both in electrical engineering.