Irfhan Rawji is the Founder &CEO of MobSquad, an innovative Canadian start-up
that ensures highcaliber software engineers with US work visa challenges remain
working with their current
company, but near-shored from Canada. MobSquad also forms near-shored teams of
software
engineers in Canada for North American clients on an exclusive, long-term basis.

Irfhan is also a Principal with Totem Capital Corporation, a private capital
firm focused on investing
in Canadian small businesses, and is a Venture Partner with Relay Ventures, an
early-stage venture
capital firm with US$600MM of assets under management and with offices in
Toronto and Menlo
Park. Irfhan is also an Adjunct Professor at the Sauder School of Business at
the University of British
Columbia, where he has taught in the areas of finance, public policy, strategy
and leadership. Irfhan has prior experience at McKinsey &
Company, Birch Hill Equity Partners, Onex Corporation (TSX:ONEX) and Parkland
Corporation (TSX:PKI).

Irfhan is presently Board Chair of The Organic Box, Alberta’s largest organic
food hub, offering home delivery as well as click-and-collect
grocery services. Additionally, Irfhan is Board Chair of Activate, a partnership
between the Government of Canada, private investors and
the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada aimed at reducing the incidence of
stroke; Activate represents an innovation in social finance
as Canada’s first social impact bond. Irfhan is also a Director of Sage
Properties, a Calgary-based real estate investment corporation, is
Board Chair of The Logic, a digital media publication focused on the innovation
economy, and is a Director of Canadian Western Bank
(TSX:CWB), a Schedule I Canadian bank focused specifically on business owners.

Irfhan is actively involved in civic affairs as Board Chair of Glenbow Museum,
Board Member of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship,
and Board Member of Venture for Canada. Additionally, Irfhan serves as Chair of
the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Impact Fund Advisory
Committee, as an advisor to the Canadian government’s Impact and Innovation Unit
within the Privy Council Office, and as a member of
the New Economy Advisory Committee of the Alberta Securities Commission. Irfhan
is also on the National Advisory Committee of The
Walrus, is an Advisor to the Canadian Urban Institute, and is co-Chair of the
Board of Governors of Look Forward, a citizen engagement
organization based in Calgary

Previously, Irfhan has served on the boards of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of
Canada (Board Chair), the Harbourfront Centre (Director,
Treasurer), imagiNation150 (Director, Treasurer), the Harvard Business School
Global Alumni Board (Director), Business for the Arts
(Director), Creative Calgary (co-Founder and co-Chair), Chatter Research
(Director, sold to Stingray Media, TSX:RAY), and member of and
Finance and Investment Sub-Committee Chair of the Calgary 2026 Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games Bid Exploration Committee.

Irfhan holds an MBA with High Honors from Harvard Business School where he was a
Baker Scholar, and also holds a BCom with Honours
from the University of British Columbia where he was a Wesbrook Scholar. He is a
recipient of The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
Medal, the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Award of Merit, the Sauder School of
Business’ Teaching Excellence Award, Business for the Arts’
Arnold Edinborough Award, and is a member of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 (2017).