Benjamin Bergen

Benjamin Bergen is the executive director of the Council of Canadian Innovators, a national, non-partisan business council for the 21st-century economy, led by the CEOs of Canada’s fastest-growing homegrown technology scale-ups.

Canadian Startup News June 23, 2020

New federal recovery panel has opportunity to build a stronger Canada out of pandemic’s rubble

By Natalie Raffoul and Benjamin Bergen

COVID-19 finds industry and public policy leaders scrambling for answers on how to rebuild our domestic economies and restore resilience in our supply and…

Canadian Startup News February 24, 2018

What to look for in #Budget2018

By Benjamin Bergen

On Tuesday afternoon — sometime after four o’clock, when trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange has ended for the day — Canada’s 39th finance…

Canadian Startup News, Feature October 12, 2016

Building the 21st century business council

By Benjamin Bergen

The Council of Canadian Innovators’ (CCI) origin story mirrors that of a tech startup in many ways. The organization started with a serendipitous mix…