Ilan Saks

Ilan Saks started TheFounderProject in winter 2012 and has since overseen the creation of 160 student startups as a result. He holds a bachelor of commerce from McGill University, and was accepted into the Law/MBA program at Syracuse University. However, he decided to forgo the joint degree to work at Real Ventures, the most active seed-stage venture capital fund in Canada. Before that he worked as an associate at the Royal Bank of Canada’s Dominion Securities branch in Toronto where he learned the intricacies of the stock market.