Richard Titus

Fellow @Creative Destruction Lab

Toronto, ON, CA

Since 2016 I\'ve been involved in CDL, initially as a mentor and associate and now as a Fellow. The startups and my peers chose me as Fellow of the Year for 2021. In addition to participating in the AI, Blockchain, Climate Change, Energy, Smart Cities, and Space streams. More critically, I am integrally involved in the organization and its evolution and lead the Marketing & Communications team for the entire global organization.Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage science- and technology-based companies. The program\'s objective-setting process enhances the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their probability of success. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the program has now expanded with locations in Oxford, Paris (HEC), Seattle (UofW), Atlanta (GeorgiaTech), Vancouver, Montreal, and more than ten additional sites outside its home of Toronto. This year\'s CDL workstreams include CDL streams include not only Artificial Intelligence (world-leading), Blockchain (I co-founded), Climate, DeFi, Energy, Health (world-class), Matter, Materials, Oceans, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Public Health, Risk, Space, Supply Chains. Companies participating in the CDL program have created more than $10B in equity value since its inception.

UCLA Anderson School of Management

MDE, Management Development for Entrepreneurs program

UC Santa Barbara

Philosphy

Berklee College of Music

Film Scoring and Synthesis (dual major)