Naheed Kurji MBA

Naheed Kurji is the President and CEO of Cyclica. Naheed is passionate about building AI-augmented technologies that enable researchers to make more strategic and informed decisions in Healthcare and the life sciences. He is dedicated to advancing the responsible application of AI. He spends the majority of his time obsessing over Cyclica’s culture, defining its strategy to best effect change in the pharma industry to achieve the company’s vision, and exploring opportunities for continued innovation.

He strives to foster an environment where the Cyclica team can debate, collaborate, problem-solve, and design solutions for some of the hardest problems we face in improving human health. He has been featured in the Globe and Mail, CBC, Forbes, Vanity Fair, StartUp Health Magazine, Venture Beat, and guest lectures at various universities on the topic of AI in drug discovery and entrepreneurship. He is also a founder and Secretary of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Health (AAIH). Naheed has an MBA from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, and has a Certificate from MIT CSAIL in Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.