Simon Dandavino

Simon Dandavino

Simon Dandavino

Director of Operations, Next AI - Montréal

Bio

Passionately curious, Simon has a deep international and academic experience. He holds a bachelor of electrical engineering from McGill University, a master in electronics from the Technical University of Denmark, and a PhD in spacecraft propulsion from EPFL, in Switzerland. He also completed a MBA from HEC Montreal, where he was also president of the MBA student association.  Simon worked as project manager and process integration engineer at DALSA Semiconductor, and was executive director of EPFL’s Space engineering center. As Director of Operations, Simon is responsible for setting up and running the Next AI – Montreal program.