Hassan Jaferi is the Co-Director of the UTEST incubator jointly run by the University of Toronto and the Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners. Hassan has been involved in the creation of multiple university startups and IP acquisition/acqui-hire deals. While working at UTEST, Hassan is also the Chief Executive officer of Bitnobi, Inc. which is a startup that has designed and developed a privacy protected, data sharing platform. At Bitnobi, Hassan manages all day-to-day business affairs for the company in order to help commercialize their solution. He holds an M.Sc from the International Space University and a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa.