Our Team
The people building Vancouver's future.
Alexander Innovation Centre is led by practitioners who've built companies, shipped products, and understand what it takes to turn ideas into outcomes.
Our Mission and Vision
The purpose guiding Alexander Innovation Centre, and the future we're building toward.
To build a British Columbia-based applied AI platform that helps Canadian organizations, founders, and communities develop AI skills, adopt AI responsibly, and transform applied research and ideas into trusted, measurable real-world solutions.
To make Alexander Innovation Centre a leading applied AI platform in British Columbia, connecting workforce training, business adoption, applied research, venture incubation, and trusted AI infrastructure to strengthen Canada's responsible AI ecosystem.
Meet our leadership team.
Experienced professionals driving Vancouver's innovation ecosystem.
Eric Zhao
Eric leads Alexander Innovation Centre's strategic direction and oversees all operations, guiding the centre's mission to transform Vancouver into a hub for applied innovation.
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Justin Hinchcliffe
Justin leads business development and commercialization efforts at Alexander Innovation Centre, including the ALEBEX AI voice AI platform. He focuses on building partnerships across healthcare, education, and enterprise sectors.
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Robert Lum
With 15 years at Alexander College, Robert brings deep institutional knowledge to Alexander Innovation Centre's Web and Media division, managing digital presence and strategy.
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The people building Alexander Innovation Centre's products, powering our applied AI and innovation initiatives.
Roy Li
Roy specializes in AI development at Alexander Innovation Centre, architecting machine learning solutions and advancing the ALEBEX AI platform's voice intelligence capabilities.
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Allen Zhou
Allen brings expertise in physical AI and robotics, leading research into robotic systems and exploring new applications for the Alexander Innovation Centre showroom and ALEBEX AI voice platform.
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Kaevon Dastpak
Kaevon builds end-to-end solutions across Alexander Innovation Centre's product portfolio, from user interfaces to backend systems.
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Behbod Babai
Behbod develops scalable web applications and integrations, bringing technical expertise to Alexander Innovation Centre's innovation initiatives.
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Herbert Mi
Herbert supports Alexander Innovation Centre's operations through procurement, research, and cross-functional coordination, ensuring the team has what it needs to move fast.
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We're hiring
We're growing our applied AI team in Vancouver. If you love building real products and shipping fast, we'd love to meet you — explore our open roles.
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British Columbia has built an exceptional foundation — world-class institutions, deep technical talent, and organizations ready to adopt AI.
Alexander Innovation Centre exists to connect those strengths — turning research into deployment, ideas into products, and adoption into measurable outcomes.
That's the bridge. That's what we're here to build.
Advisory Board.
Seven seats representing the expertise needed to guide Alexander Innovation Centre's mission and growth.
AI / SaaS commercialization CEO or former CEO
Enterprise sales / SaaS revenue leader
Corporate training / workforce development leader
Privacy, data governance, or AI-risk advisor
BC innovation ecosystem connector
Technical AI / cloud / voice infrastructure advisor
Angel investor / finance / grant advisor
Interested in an advisory seat? We'd love to talk.
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